1) Yes

2) Yes

But it's the same as anything... it's not easy, you have to work it right. Find specific products that cater for the needs and requirement of your niche.

See my response in red. Hope it helps

1) Yes
2) Amazon is a affiliate network, not a CPA network, therefore cannot be compared with each other.

If you're a newbie, then making a good income from Amazon affiliate program in a short amount of time will be quite difficult. You only make a small % per sale.

But the reason many people like the Amazon program is because they are reliable, trusted and is a well known brand.

I personally like affiliate programs that pay at least 50% or more per sale.

Yes, it is worth it as long as you have good search rankings.

Me and my business partner make a full time living from Amazon. We currently average close to $15k a month and in December made just over $32,000. It is definitely doable and we know of people making more than us.

Prior to this we used to use merchants from Commission Junction and Linkshare and other similar networks. They resulted in some sales but not much. Amazon really made the difference in our business.

PaulaC Do you target Google US or Google AU?

I've read alot of your posts & I bought your Amazon profit plan ebook (which is amazing ) a while back. I also heard your pod cast interview which had some great info too.

It was your success & information that first drove me to make money with Amazon. I have started to see some success & 2011 is looking very good for me.

One thing that really got me was how much the UK Amazon affiliate structure differs from the US.

Amazon UK cap all commissions at £7 per sale which is really bad. I only found this out after selling a £300 item & got £7 commission.

Also with Amazon US to get the top commission of 8.50% you need to sell 3,000+ items but with Amazon UK you need to sell 30,000+ item to get the top commission. This makes it hard to get the top commission % in the UK.

I have no idea why the Amazon UK make it so much harder for their affilaites to make money but I'm still going to push ahead & see if I can make a good income from the program.

You can make a full time living with Amazon many have and I'm one of them, but just because a lot of us made it work this doesn't mean it will work for everyone, it's a lot of work just like it any business, you have to advertise your blog, split test, test and do more testing. But if you stay in this game and don't give up then yeah .... you will make a full time living from Amazon.

Tried it for a year...low returns and very demanding

thank you all for your answers but I still need more answers to the later questions

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I have been trying to make money with Amazon for the past 8 months after following a course on the subject that I bought from Sara Young. Like all internet marketing it is very competative. I have so far found it difficult to find a product within any niche that is not already saturate with other affiliates.

The other problem is getting good listing on Google for my web pages which are usually wordpress or blogger blogs.

In order to get listed I am using article marketing and after several months am having some success with some keywords. However to date sales have been somewhat limited. I am still optimistic and feel that more success will come as I add more articles for different keyword.

I have and am still promoting a few CPA offers in the health and Fitness sector. Once again I am using article marketing to drive traffic to the web pages for these products.

Hope this is useful.

I think the whole "pay by cheque" issue is the biggest gripe I have with Amazon - otherwise I think that it is a great way to make money online. I wish they would follow Clickbank's lead and start allowing direct deposit for international affiliates.

As you probably know by now there are lots of people out there making a living promoting Amazon products. I recently changed my online strategy and decided to start doing some Amazon stuff as well and have already made a few sales after just a few weeks in without too much effort.

encouraging thank you

I'm new to IM and I'm personally starting as an Amazon Affiliate. I bought Dan Brock's course and it was great. I think the only thing I really need to get down is backlinking.

I just finished my first niche site... I have all my articles set to drip feed and I'll start back linking them as they come out. I just need to create a schedule and keep track.

On to my next niche site... and then I'll make another... and then I'll make another. I'm hoping to have atleast 10 sites within the next 3 months. Hell, I made my first complete one in under 5 days... I can only imagine how quick I'll be when I get good at it! I'm sort of a computer nerd though.

I'm really going to try not and pay attention to my stats because I know/believe If I do the right thing... conversions will start to occur maybe a few months down the line.

Regarding the comment from Brandstrom - post #19 "This seems like a major traffic leak since Amazon said affiliates don't get a commission if the customer clicks those links and buys from the other stores."

Perhaps these are the third party items which we do get commission from. (Check the Amazon Affiliate Earnings Report - At the bottom of the report there is a break down of Total Amazon.com items Shipped and Total Third party Items Shipped. I believe this may be referring to those items.

people just buy stuff but a few implement what they learn here

My biggest gripe with Amazon and the only reason I don't focus on them 100% is the fact that they don't pay lifetime commission if they did I would jump in with both feet

If you really want to know the nuts and bolts of earning a lot with Amazon, study PaulaC's blog (in her sig). I've been following her model and seeing great results.

I wrote reviews of products that cost $250 or so, and am averaging 10% of my amazon clicks turning into purchases for those products!

Although commissions are much lower than clickbank, conversion is way higher!

Here are a few tips (most of which I learned from Paula!)

1. Choose products that cost at least $xxx, so your commissions will be more significant than the .35 cents commissions I'd earn on the sale of a book.

2. Write helpful reviews of the product. The key being "helpful". Don't just rehash the description, spend a day researching everything you can find out about the product, and present it in an easy-to-read and friendly format.

3. Get SEO traffic by getting backlinks with your anchor text to your review pages until you are ranking well for your keywords. Target keywords like "product xyz review" so that you'll get traffic from people who have their hands on their wallet and want to buy this type of product.

4. Get the Preview Tool working on your site: so that when people simply hover over your amazon text or image link, they get cookied into your affiliate link. (Test this out, it may be more or less effective in different niches.)
5. Don't worry about competition. Most people are lazy and will abandon their sites within a few weeks or months, meaning that it will be easy for you to outrank them if you keep at working on the same site, their sites' rankings will fall.

6. You don't need to get ALL the traffic in the world for that keyword to make a good living. If you can rank in the top 3 spots in Google for a couple of different long-tail variations of your keyword, all that traffic can bring you a nice amount of money. So what if some traffic goes to other sites? Does Walmart lose sleep because some people shop at Target?

7. Work on ONE SITE at a time! Many people want a cluster of 10 or 50 sites that each earn a couple of bucks a day. While that can work, you'll be spending an enormous amount of energy just checking your stats and logging into each site to do tweaking! Additionally, the amount of backlinks pointing to a domain is a big factor in google. So, if you are working on backlinks for your page example.com/blue-widgets, you are also indirectly boosting the rankings of your other pages like example.com/red-widgets, because you are bringing more backlinks to the domain as a whole - which is impossible when you're spread across a bunch of sites.

8. Don't stop doing these steps until you have at least 100 visitors daily from the search engines for your target keywords. Once you have that much traffic, you can do split testing and tweak. But, most people will give up way before they have 100 visitors from their keywords daily.

9. Keep imagining a point in time - maybe 10 or 18 months from now - when you are selling 25 $250 products through your site daily. At 7.5% commission, that is $18.75 x $468.75 every day. Yes, you'll have some expenses, you might be outsourcing some backlink building and article writing, but $468 daily can support most families in style. And you won't have to deal with customer service, returns, emails for support, and can take a couple of weeks off at at time without harming your stream of income!

Hi Julie, you are missing the big point, even if a digital product pay much % of commission, they usually sell on $7 or $97.

On the flip side, one physical product can cost $5,000 which will pay you $200 @ only 4% rate.

It is easier to market a real product than a digital one, because you have a large number of consumers who are willing to buy that product.

Just see: On the Christmas, people buy real gifts as presents, but not ebooks/softwars. They spend lots of money on this season; just as the guru amazon affiliates have mentioned on this thread, they got some huge commission on this Christmas season. Makes sense?

This is a really valuable discussion.

Think about this: Ask your real-life friends and relatives this question:

"Have you ever bought an ebook?"

I did an informal survey of my friends, and they all said, "no."

Then I asked the same group of people, "What's the most recent 3 purchases you've made online?"

And the answer always included amazon within the past few weeks or months!

Most everyone orders from amazon. More and more people order things online every day that they would not have thought to order online a year or three ago (when they were more used to driving to brick and mortor stores.)

Even I, who have been in IM for 5 years, find myself ordering categories of products for my house that I used to drive to Walmart or Target for to save time.

And Amazon does an INCREDIBLE job of converting visitors into customers and upselling and cross-selling. Our job as affiliates is to get "product-hungry" regular folks over to amazon, then let amazon work their magic.

Ok, back to work to tweak some of my review pages.

One more tip: Use a plugin like "all in one seo" on your WP site and pay attention to what the "snippet" of text that is displayed on your SE result says - that will dramatically affect how many people click through to your listing, even if you're not in the top spot or two, you can get much more traffic by putting in 160 characters of highly targeted information, rather than just letting Google pick up the first 160 characters in your post, which may just be introductory words.

I use a combination of Hub Pages, Squidoo, and my own Amazon store fronts, using an awesome Amazon store script. It is a nice, steady income indeed.

Basically, it's just research a niche, buy a good url (or use existing domain), create Amazon store, repeat

The fact is there is more traffic out there than you can shake a stick at and people are buying stuff online like mad, heck, "I'm" buying stuff online like mad. There is so much money to be made selling physical products it's insane. Amazon is massive, and people just love to buy stuff there. Having said that, they are far from the only source for physical products...Buy.com,linkshare,Commission Junction etc etc. If your willing to do the work it's hard "NOT" to make money. The fact is you can "& DO" make money in your sleep.

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I dont know anyone who is making a ton of money of amazon or any other program would bother spending so much energy to sell things on how to make money doing so. I use amazon and make a living off it and in no way have time to write or help people make money doing it themselves lol . Seems like a lot of bs . For the amount of time I would spend doing that I could double or triple my amazon income and that is much better for the long term.

Hi, Smartdoctor:
From what I know about Amazon Associates, it's well worth the time and effort. I'm just now in the process of creating some "sites" that will connect with Amazon, but it's been highly recommended to me, and I know others who are making lots of $$ every month through their associate accounts.
Good Luck!!!

I know that you can make a really good living from being an Amazonassociate..I did a lot of research and talked to a lot of people that made serious money on Amazon

Yes you can make great money with Amazon!

Ellen C. Braun touched on this above, but for those of you who are making this work, do you find there's a good price range of products to stay between?

In other words, if you're selling only $5 products, you won't make much commission, so it makes sense to market higher-priced products.

But can you go too high? I wonder if there's a point where a lot of people won't spend that much for a product online, because they want to see it in a store or try it out. So is there like an upper limit where it's not worth marketing things that sell for more than $1,000? $2,000?

I think including Amazon is worth it.

On my Adsense websites, I will usually reference a book or product as a recommended example item to help the reader solve a problem. I could care less whether or not they buy that particular product. I don't have to spend time writing copy on a product I've never used by looking at other reviews. All I want is the click to get that cookie in a user's browser for 24 hours, and hope that the user buys something else later on. With a conversion rate of 5-10%, I'm pretty happy with just getting that cookie in there. I would rather have the user exit via an Adsense click. But if they don't click on it, I'll settle for the Amazon cookie.

Lots of great info in this post and I wanted to chime in and provide some info on my results.

Unlike some IM'ers, I have a full-time job and sell my own Clickbank products and other products on Clickbank in both the IM space and other niches. I've passively been involved in selling on Amazon for while and when I began to see so much junk being sold on Clickbank I turned my direction back to Amazon.

I started revamping a few of my sites in June of 2010 and made less than $200. I began mixing my sites (2-3 of them) with reviews, articles and video reviews. I created traffic using core SEO methods, video posting and backlinking.

In the span of a month I was able to increase my traffic and my amazon commissions from less than $200 to over $800. The next month was even better.

While I love the initial setup and getting everything going, I hate the maintenance because I'm lazy. Typically after a month or so I'll use some auto posting plugins that keep the site looking good. I've managed to keep most of my top rankings for my sites and most are within the first page of Google.

A few tips I've learned that I can pass on. I have a site that promotes smaller dollar value, popular products...think impulse buys. These alone push my volume and commission percentages up very quickly each month. I actually dont care how much I make from this site, the entire purpose is to get my order quantities up for commissions on bigger orders.

My bigger dollar order sites are detailed, better reviews, less "noise". I always add in accessories for those big dollar products if available. My big dollar product sites almost always have video reviews. Just simple powerpoint presentations that I've designed to be product-review stylized. A little goes a long way.

I never sell on my sites. Every is based on reviews and social proof. If people are on my sites it's because they are already in buying mode. My job is to push them off the fence on the right side while delivering helpful information.

SO for those asking, YES, the Associates program is worth it. In fact, I actually recommend Amazon over Clickbank and eBay Partner programs for anyone that actually wants to make their first money (or any money) online.

You won't make $45,137 in 30 days from the start like some of those push button Clickbank products, but if you want to start seeing results, give it a try.

Jeff

She means pages. But, what does it matter? Pages. Posts. Don't over think it

Most of my reviews are on pages and my posts are posts. Works wonderfully for me

You can make a living off of both of them...don't let anyone tell you one only one thing works....develop a clear exact plan and stick with it..you can get either of them to work....master the area you are in....thats what those who are top do...

Correct me if I am wrong here, but doesn't Amazon set a session cookie only? Meaning you'll only get paid if your referral buys on the initial visit and if they leave and come back later no $??? It sounds like they don't really stack the deck to favor anyone but themselves. I know there are strategies and tactics that can make amazon viable and even lucrative for affiliates, but it just isn't for me.

Do you think Amazon will become saturated? I know there's many niches but there is only so many of them and it seems that more and more people are becoming Amazon affiliates all the time and are competing to get on the 1st page of Google for the highly searched keywords in their niche.

Yesterday someone bought a product to keep cats out of their garden on my site. Of all random things! (That's not something I promote, but with Amazon you get credit when people buy anything at all through your affiliate link!)

Like Paula advises, I've found that really high-quality reviews work best. I read up on all the technical details, and explain the features and benefits in every day language, which people really appreciate. It takes me 6+ hours to write one review - and that is because I spend hours gathering the relevant information, breaking it down into bite-sized pieces, and presenting it pleasantly.

I don't write long reviews and I do well. I do a brief overview of the product, list features, then pros and cons, social proof, and then summarize. I also might link to a youtube video. As long as I'm getting traffic to my page (which I think is what making money on amazon is all about), I'm getting sales.

Yeah I think it's worth it. The commissions are low, but the products tend to convert a lot better than clickbank. Promote amazon products in addition to CPA and other affiliate programs. It's best not to have all your eggs in one basket anyways.

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It's sort of like everything else, stay with it until you become an expert, most lose focus and move on for some reason.

It's like shopping in a store, something catches there eye and they move on.

I feel its worth it if you know what you are doing and understand the terms of service, payout system etc. There are literally thousands of products (probably more) to promote in different niches and its a trusted company, but the thing is to make sure you do not get discouraged. In the beginning, you may start out selling hundreds of dollars worth of products and ending up with 10-20 dollars worth of commissions and feel you are being cheated, which is why it’s important to read the fine print and make sure you understand it.

It depends what you get good at. The top people in CPA would never mess around with amazon's 4% commissions. But the people making gonzo with amazon probably don't do any CPA. I personally think you have to be smarter to make your money doing straight CPA than stuff like amazon sites. I fall into the amazon category... I could never get CPA to consistently be profitable, but I can make one hell of an information site. Go figure.

hi there. is it better to have your product descriptions as pages or as blog posts on your site?

Kea55,

I think it comes down to the number of product descriptions you will have. If it is only going to be a few, then pages would be okay, but if you are going to have hundreds, then use posts.

I'm making a full time income building Amazon sites for others. The Amazon thing is so popular right now and there are some people who don't know how to do it the right way. I've learned from Jan Roos (who posted in this thread), PaulaC (who posted in this thread), Dan Brock and the Niche Affiliate Program by Chris Guthrie.

So it's not just a matter of writing a review site and slapping it up there, there is a lot more involved than that. Jan's WSO is good to learn how. I think it's the best out of all that I mentioned.

I never used amazon as a affiliate but going off what i read from other marketers.
I would prefer CPA Networks: Why (higher pay,more freedom,have your own affiliate manager to talk too, can get paid weekly if you choose etc)

I think yes. I use it and I make 20$ per week with it.

Very encouraging and inspiring thread..

I have learnt a lot from this thread. Thanks everyone

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Its very worth it. I like it because there are endless products that you can choose to promote for every niche imaginable, as well as all price ranges.

I would say yes you could earn a full time income with Amazon. They don't pay a ton of money per product but the products are everyday products people buy anyway. So it's not hard to sell at all. People are looking for them anyway. You just have to create the sites and get it in front of the buyers. Easy money!

I am quite new to internet marketing and wanted to market Amazon products by using sites such as Snipsly and Xomba. I intended to write good, informative articles and try to get traffic in this way.

But I have read that to get an Amazon Associates account you need to have a website with several pages.

Does anyone know what the situation is with regard to getting an Amazon Associates account?

Well I just started with Amazon about a month ago and so far I have not made a sale yet,but I am positive that things will be OK very soon when I start getting that very much valued traffic. As for whether you can make a living from Amazon, I would say possible but difficult.

My resounding answer to your questions is a big YES. But you have to be effective in selecting your affiliate product...

I originally put this on as a separate thread, but thought later that as this thread is about Amazon, it may be answered here.

I have been looking at ways of selling products online. Amazon in particular.

I was given a system using Snipsly, Xomba and some other article sites to promote products.

The advice to get onto page one of Google was to use the full description of the product as the title of the article and also for header 1.

I see a big problem here.

This was one example given.



Well, the article was published some months ago, and is still on page one of Google today.

That sounds great, but if you put this title into Google Keyword Tool, you find that it gets absolutely no monthly Global searches at all.

So, if no one is searching for that term, what is the point of getting on page one of Google if you are never ever going to make any sales.

It would seem that if you use any less obscure phrases for your title, such as maybe 'Portable Air Conditioner' you will see that there are now thousands of monthly Global searches, but you will never have a hope of getting on to page one of Google as it is far too competitive.

How do people promote Amazon products by writing articles, would it be better to use something else for the article title, other than the product description?

I would welcome your views on this.

@robwill2. Id like to know the answer to that also. Im using the SEOPressor plugin. When i create a review page it asks you to enter the main keyword for the page.

The product name keyword doesn't show any monthly searches on the Google Keyword tool yet other more generic keywords related to the niche are to competitive so what are you supposed to enter as the main keyword for the review page?

Definately can make full time income from Amazon.

The hard part is just sieving out all the "noise" from the WSO,s if you are just starting out.

1) Buy 1 good Amazon guide is all thats needed.
2) Learn which backling stategy works for the least amount of input/money.
3) Work hard building a few sites till you start to earn money from them.
4) Re-invest profits, outsource the work and scale up as quick as possible, snowball
the income.

Hello Cooler1.

Yes, it is a puzzle to me, and one that I would be grateful for an answer to.

I am sure that promoting the higher value Amazon products could be very profitable, so I would like to get into this.

I do see occasionally that people are searching in reasonable numbers for the exact product description, but not that often.

I am sure that someone will come on here soon and give us the correct way to do this.

I have no doubt that there are people making 10k/month with Amazon. If you're saying someone from Amazon told you that no one does that, then either he or you are aren't telling the truth. I have nothing no product or service to push here; I'm just going by my short experience with Amazon and what I see it can do. 10k/month? I'm an IM newbie, and I can see that in the realm of possibility for myself eventually, even. I'm talking years down the road, with a lot of daily work, but it is for sure possible. If a newbie would be wise to put that much effort into a single income stream is a different issue, though.

However, I agree that it is in NO way as easy as some of the sellers of Amazon products/courses/coaching make it out to be. It's a ton of work if you want to make any significant amount of money, and it's definitely going to take a while before that starts coming in. Of course the people pushing products/services are going to artificially beef up their numbers. There's no way to prove that they're doing it, so why wouldn't they?

Amazon definitely seems to be treated like some magical push-button system around here, and it's far from it. From the perspective of a newbie, you have to put in a ton of work/effort for very little (or no) immediate payoff- or even any payoff at all if you do it all wrong. I'm sure it's much easier for experienced marketers, though. I don't have experience with other affiliate networks, but I'm sure it's mostly the same. If you're a newbie, don't expect to buy a pre-made Amazon site or affiliate course for $100 and be making $5000/month from it. It's not gonna happen. The guy selling the course may actually be making that, but let's not forget that there's a difference between someone that's been doing IM for years and a newbie who found this forum yesterday.

I can't speak for any of the coaching or courses offered here, and I'm sure some of them are actually great, but you need to put in a ton of work on top of it if you want to get anywhere.

I know you will find it difficult starting on your own. There is a learning curve and I would suggest that getting guidance and help from others (usually paid) will speed things up considerably for you. Best of Luck.

I know a lot of ppl that made a lot of money on Amazon. So yes, if you have dedication then you can make lots of money there

I've been a member of the Amazon network for many years and put links to some of their books on my websites. It generates some free income every year with no work on my part other than putting up the roiginal image and link which is just part of building the web page. Worth it, but, not going to make you rich.

I picked up Sara Young's course and was pleasantly surprised with how well she explains the whole process of setting up Amazon product sites.

But like many others have pointed out already, I also discovered that getting the right keywords and doing some SEO was essential before I started making money. Plus, it takes some time to start getting traffic.

With that said, I think that the Amazon Affiliate program is definitely worth it and has a lot of potential to make a significant income.

Has anyone here put CPA offers on there Amazon sites. What were the results like? Did you see a decrease in Amazon conversions or was it worthwhile?

Lots of posts and interesting information.

The biggest draw I find for Amazon compared to other affiliate marketing is that it promotes physical products.

I find it much easier to sell physical products than ebooks and such because they are more readily identified. By this, I mean that a Sony 32" flat screen is the same product no matter who you buy from. Not necessarily so with how-to informational products.

You don't usually need to do as much selling for physical products. Yes, you need informational reviews and such to "push the customer over the edge" to buy from your link, but by the time they hit your site, it's likely they already know what they want, and often what brand, so what you are really doing is providing them emotional validation that they chose the right thing.

This is a far cry from trying to establish your bona-fides and sell them an information product that needs to be proven to them to contain the value they are looking for, along with providing the actual solution to their problem.

Look at your own buying habits. If you are anything like me (probably not, because we are all different individuals) by the time you are looking at reviews of a physical product, you've already decided to buy something, it's only a matter of which model or size, or price.

On the other hand, if you are looking for information or an information product, you may spend weeks trolling through forums and searching Google or Bing before you actually do anything. Perhaps you've already tried to get something done in IM without purchasing a product. In this case, you may be ready to buy, but if not, it may be a longer sell than a physical product.

Of course, the big draw in IM products for most folks is the high commission rates.

Been making about $400 - $500 in passive income through Amazon for the last few months. What really stepped it up is figuring out your market.

Before, I was offering a much higher end product related to a hobby niche that I also participate in. I found out that the majority of my readers certainly didn't have that kind of income so I switched up the promotions - I started receiving double the amount of clicks and since Amazon is so great at upselling and cross selling, I often get some great commissions when people buy multiple items.

I get a lot of traffic for pages I've built whose names are www.mydomain.com/product-xyz-vs-product-abc

People are wondering whether they should buy Product XYZ or Product ABC, which are similar, but have differences.

Create a page about that and throw backlinks at that page targeting that keyword phrase (product xyz vs product abc)

Then list the similarities and differences between ABC and XYZ, linking all your images and a few text links to Amazon. There's much less competition than trying to rank for "product abc" and your page is seriously helpful to potential buyers of one of these products! Most niches have loads of similar products from different companies, or different models made by the same company!

The downside of Amazon is that the commission is relatively small. The upside is that they sell EVERYTHING!!! So there is bound to be something that you are interested in enough to write articles about etc.

One Good thign about amazon is you can even use free blogging platforms like blogger, wordpress and send the visitors to amazon site. The conversion after after people sees amazon logo is very huge

If not for your product they end up buying something in the 24hrs... it is quite possible to earn something from your visitor and do that for every visitor.

Amazon takes care of everything you just need to redirect buyers to their site (any amazon.com page)


Thanks

The problems with most people when join Amazon program and give up are:
-Their landing pages did not get enough traffic
-The traffic is not target, have many clicks but no sale.
-The commission of sale is not enough with their wish.
If you can solve this problem, you can have a cash machine .

There are tons of opinions.

1. It's worth it
2. It's up to you

There are people who are making more than 10K a Month. But they really work hard.

For example, Paula and Wanda from affiliateblogonline.com make $14.000/Month.

However it took several years for them to achieve these results.

I think it works! Mind it, I have no experience working with them.
But in near future, I'm planning to create niche sites with Amazon products!

Hope that works!

Karan

There is something that I wanted to add to this thread that I didn't see anyone mention before.

People generally talk about choosing best seller amazon products or 4 stars + products that receive good reviews. I personally go after as many bad products as I can. This might sound strange but the reality is that many low rated products get searches and if you just ignore them you are leaving money on the table.

I actually would include more low rated products than top selling products on my website. The reasons behind this are simple :

1 - Bad products get traffic. Don't forget that Brands do all kinds of advertising even if their product gets bad reviews.

2 - You can redirect that traffic to your better products. For instance if I review a 1 star rated product on amazon I mention the cons and the pros ( in this case the cons would be emphasized) and then suggest the visitor to forget about this product and buy another one instead. By following this you can turn a targeted visitor looking for a bad product that you would have missed out on, into a buying visitor of a good product.

3 - By following what I just wrote in 2, you gain in credibility and authority and your website looks more like a natural website instead of some cheap review website that only has good reviews to make some quick affiliate cash.

Yes, it is possible. I have just started and touching around $100 a month

I would venture to say that Amazon is one of the easiest programs to get discouraged in as you could easily sell an item for around or over $200 and only receive a $10 commission on it and then never be paid as the commission fell below the threshold depending on your payment method. Its excellent if you can move alot of products on a regular basis and don’t get discouraged but many/most will end up quitting in disgust because of sales that are few and far between and not worth it in terms of compensation.

Yes. I am personally doing well with Amazon so it's definitely worth going into.

just to keep this topic alive and not open another thread, does anybody know if there is a LIMIT as to how many sites and tracking ID's you can have listed in your associates centre? thanks.

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Glad I found this thread as I have picked up some very useful info, even though I may not know how to do some of them yet. I have a niche website I've been really struggling to get traffic to. I have an Amazon store on it, yep, no sales yet. I just started to write a review of one of the products and will put a link to my store.

I always put the new blog/article on my site first. Then I make a blogger blog and also submit to article directories and social bookmarks. Don't know why I'm not seeing any sales yet. I do, however get lots of comments to my blogs, mostly junk though which I delete.

This thread has given me much needed inspiration after reading the Amazon success stories. I'm glad people are willing to freely share their strategy. It's very helpful, thanks.

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I like AAL, for my first venture I've made money with less then seven days of my site being built, and less then 20 clicks through to Amazon.

unless you actually good amount of sales and have chosen the righ comission structure other than that i personally havent been in the favor of Amazon also because of their pay period .

I use Amazon as part of my overall online business plan as I believe it is important to have a variety of income sources just in case something happens beyond your control to one of them!

You do need to be patient with Amazon payments if you live outside of US and don't have a US bank account (or international one). $100 minumum payment threshold by cheque and you get paid roughly 2 months after you hit the threshold due to refund time etc.

For UK its £30 and straight into yout bank account.

However I like Amazon as once people get to amazon they might buy a lot of other items that have nothing to do with what you sent them there for! Christmas is a great time!

You need to have the amazon disclaimer on your site or they wont pay
You need to make it obvious that you are sending people to amazon (no hiding links) or they might not pay
You need to 'own' the website that you send traffic to amazon from

You can promote any number of products.

I tried CPA with no success! I definitely recommend amazon though!

Good luck!

I agree unless you are making a lot of money the program just isn’t really worth it. You are basically working in the present for money you’ll receive months from now. This money may also be chunk change resulting from a lot of work and expense. I believe it takes 60-90 days something to that effect in order to get paid.

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My resounding answer to your questions is a big YES. But you have to be effective in selecting your affiliate product...

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It's nice to know you are referring your customers to a major established quality site. Amazon has excellent customer service and works hard to maintain its reputation. When you send someone to purchase on Amazon through your link, they may feel more comfortable purchasing with the Amazon brand name behind the product. I really like the program.

diffcult...i feel even now I forcus just only one site which i owned didn't get any sales..

my niches is all rounder from electronics to health even...

I heard those successful ones..own many website..especially cater for one niche...
that means you have to pay a lot on hosting too...etc..

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