Amazon queries

by Yellowcake

Posted: 15 years ago 14 replies

INTERNET MARKETING

Hi folks

A few questions for the Amazon Associates amongst you if I may:

On your sites do you also use Adsense? Heard some conflicting stuff here. Some say keep it entirely Amazon and nothing else. Others use a combination of Amazon and Adsense. Any thoughts?

How many products (and reviews) do you have on your sites? I realise this is a bit of an open ended question but I'm just starting out and have literally no idea of how many products to list? No right and wrong here I know but some pointers would be most useful.

Finally would any of you kind souls be prepared give me the url of one of your sites? If I can see how a decent site should look it will give me confidence that I'm heading in the right direction with mine. This is only for comparison purposes ... honest

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Thanks guys

YC

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RichardF 15 years ago

I don't use Adsense at all, but some people do. It's a matter of preference really. Doesn't hurt to try both.

I usually start with at least 5-10 reviews and then build from there. You can do less, or more, the important thing is that you take action and start building

It's not hard to find a ton of Amazon affiliate sites if you search around for popular products in certain niches, like home appliances etc.
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- JCamp 15 years ago
  
  Ive used Adsense on some of the sites i thought would be great amazon earners but instead found amazon product reviews to be profitable to use with Adsense.
  
  One thing that perdsuades me to use Adsense over Amazon is having a premium theme (i use CTR theme) and average around 10% CTR.
  
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- Gaz Cooper 15 years ago
  
  I use Adsense on all my sites and make a nice additional income from it and I reccomend it, however many affiliates will not, its my thought that I would rather get something than nothing from a visitor.
  
  As for a site to look at, people will not be too keen on that here because they want to protect there niches LOL, but thats one of the unique things about my upcoming product the Amz training Academy where I will be showing several of my real sites to members and also how to bulid a site from scratch and get it to #1 on google in less than a week all proven by videos.
  
  kickin it on Amazon
  
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Benjamin Norman 15 years ago

I personally do not use adsense on Amazon Affiliate websites as I believe it can distract the reader. With respect to reviews / products, I have some that have four or five, whilst others only have one product. I guess it all depends on the product you are trying to sell.
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Miriam Higginbotham

15 years ago

I have not actually tried using Adsense but in a product I purchased concerning Amazon sites, this person suggested usin Adsense if you find your site is not performing. It may be a way to make something rather than nothing. Adsense can be distracting from product/review style sites. I believe this was the reasoning that this person gave to why they would not use it unless they were not making any money with the site. Hope that helps!

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JCamp

15 years ago

Originally Posted by miriamhigg

I only suggest using Adsense if AMAZON is not performing. Not if the website is not performing. If the website isnt performing well its not the affiliate program's fault lol

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PS Jake Campbell (<------this person)

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Brendon Zahrndt 15 years ago

Yellow,

I am a huge fan of dual monetization strategies, but under the right circumstances. There will people who disagree with this; I simply believe that you will never convert everyone all of the time.

One of my most recent niche sites is adsense/amazon monetized, and it does extremely well with both. I have this documented on my main blog.

I have not run split tests on this site to see which strategy would work best because I already know the answer. The only situation worth considering in my case is ditching adsense all together since my average cost per click is low and my conversion rates for the amazon products are extremely high.

It is just a matter of personal preference in this instance; every situation is different.
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omk 15 years ago

One rule of thumb is to always have a mix of products on your sites. Remember that you need a certain number of sales to get bumped up in commission each time. So have a few good selling lower priced items among your products to help with that. To help make higher commissions per sale, select products that are good sellers, but priced around $175 and up. As far as mixing adsense on your pages, I try and look at higher paying offers from CPA, Contextual and other types of stuff like lead gen etc.
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fitz10 15 years ago

Test it and tweak.

I don't use it as I've found conversions are lower but other people might experience something different.
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website12 Banned 15 years ago

You can ad adsense but you need to make sure it is high ctr so you can make enought money.
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DiMcdonald 15 years ago

Hi,
I would suggest you start with just amazon products and see how they convert. Later on, once you understand how the site is going you could test adsense.

Start with 5 reviews or articles and just build up. If you could add a page of content every 3 days after you have the site up then you will do well.

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David Lamb 15 years ago

Put a P.S. (or some other short but interesting info) under your Amazon buy button, then put an AdSense block underneath that.

That way, if you fail to get the Amazon click, you can still attempt to get an AdSense click.

I never put any Adsense blocks above my main Buy From Amazon button.
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- Yellowcake 15 years ago
  
  Thanks a bunch guys. Fantastic replies as always :-)
  
  Staying with the Amazon theme, at the moment I'm using the Amazon 'product in a post' Wordpress plugin. Do you think the best plan of attack is to make your site 'look' like an Amazon site with the familiar listing format that Amazon uses, or simply to do the exact opposite and just include links to Amazon and keep things minimalistic?
  
  I've yet to test this stuff out because my site is new and I'm tweaking it as we speak. Decided to move away from the Amazon astore format because I think it offers very little to the reader but once I've got a system I'll apply it to other niche sites that I intend to develop.
  
  The real question here is that do you have more success with Amazon sites that glaringly obviously look like Amazon sites (widgets etc) or not?
  
  I guess there are two trains of thought here: to some potential buyers, the Amazon branding may invoke a warm feeling of familiarity; whilst with others it may be a turn off!
  
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  PatriciaJ 15 years ago
  
  None of my Amazon sites look like Amazon at all, they look like sites that are offering information about products with some Amazon links. I rarely use Amazon widgets because they don't work well for me. I use text linking and linking images.
  
  I have Adsense and Amazon on some of my sites but on others just Amazon. Some of my Amazon sites have 5 or 6 product overviews, others have 100s from particular niches plus articles.
  
  I like to experiment with different methods and nothing to me is clear cut. In April my top earner was a site with just 6 overviews for Amazon products and no Adsense. In May my top earner was a site with 100s of Amazon products plus Adsense.
  
  I turned Adsense off one of my other sites for a while and found little difference in sales, but somebody else might say the opposite. So it's best to experiment for yourself I think.
  
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