Amazon- examples of highly converting affiliate sites ?

wolfmmiii,

I am very interested in getting a review site up in the next several weeks. I have followed a lot of your posts and really love the info you have shared. I saw one thread that was locked where you were creating a tutorial. Can you pm me and tell me how or where I can follow more of your advice?

Thanks, a greenhorn marketer!!!

@wolfmmiii do you review yourself?

Good advice & nice examples- thanks for that.

These Amazon affiliate shop sites seem to be much less work, certainly when you use a plug in like wpzonbuilder which seems to be quite popular. I still wonder how these sites will rank- guess you have to add a lot of unique content.

@ wolfmmiii : since you have quite a lot of experience with amazon aff sites- do you use any amazon plugins for your websites with good results .. ?


Any more Amazon good shop / review sites examples to share ?..

I guess this site may be illegal since it probably breaks amazon operational agreement since it probably hosts product pictures from amazon.

That top 10 review site is a PR7 meaning that any new (product) pages they add to that authority site should get indexed and rank pretty fast. Nice.

Alexa! God...
Global Rank

1,416 142

Rank in United States

746

huh he using amazon?

I happen to check out his mobile click is go to the telecom..

perhaps "some tricks " ??


the site is amazing wonder how he do it and is it "auto blog"

Thanks for sharing. But I have a question for you: why are you still setting meta keywords for AIO SEO? Doesn't everybody agree that engines don't look at them?

I'm not sure I agree with this. I've tried the opt-in stuff on some of my review sites and it just doesn't perform well. I get a very, very small fraction of that 90% to opt-in and, of course, an even smaller fraction of that fraction will ever open your emails, let alone buy something. So really, instead of chasing the other 90%, I'm chasing some fraction of a fraction of that 90%, while missing out on affiliate clicks (and commissions) I would have otherwise gotten.

I receive very few opt-ins and to be honest, I think it's because the person searching for widget reviews is late in the buying cycle. As such, by the time I send the user his first mailing, he already has the widget he was looking for. Maybe it's just my style of site that doesn't work well with opt-ins but I've seen nothing but terrible performance on multiple sites.

Now, as I said in another thread, I suppose this could work if you make the opt-ins your site's primary focus (offer reviews/info in exchange for an opt-in). However, once you do that, the site is really no longer an Amazon site but more of a squeeze page since you really are forsaking affiliate clicks for emails.

Aside from reading and understanding the TOS, start with a niche or product that you know and understand. It's much easier to succeed when you are working with a subject that you are knowledgeable in.

If you are building a list with targeted blog visitors, you should be able to easily earn a 4-5 figure monthly income even with a list that small.. Send them your product reviews or recommendations for relevant products. For any popular niche, there are hundreds or even thousands of Amazon products to promote. Competition is insignificant when you have an audience built on credibility and trust.

Yes.

This might help you: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post6608638

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For me it looks pretty similar to you. I have startet as amazon affiliate a few years ago. Build some websites, where the two i put most work into, got sales and paid the hosting. Now i didnt work on them for months, maybe a year, but im stilll making some money. I need to get back on it too.

Please note: The message below is true, however, the niche I mention may not be I am a programmer and have been a victim to cloning and reverse engineering so will try to give you all the information that I can for you to succeed, without giving away anything that can back fire
Also note: I have been an affiliate for over a decade now, and have built many tools for affiliates to function better. Even this example below was an experiment primarily to see what I need to build next. If you are new to affiliate marketing, this info can be a bit overwhelming and sound a bit technical - sorry can't help , if so, break it up and simplify it in your own words to make sure you absorb whatever you can.

Selling amazon products is fairly simple if you are willing to put some ongoing effort into it.

Here's how one of my site did wonders for me:

Let's assume, I went camping with my friends, also fishing on the same trip. Also since we are all fond photographers, we borrowed some lenses for our cameras from BorrowLenses.com (they have an affiliate program too, recently moved to shareasale).

Anyhow, I needed to get back into affiliate marketing after being involved in other projects, so I created a new drupal site (blog about our outdoor adventures). I prefer Drupal over Wordpress, though wordpress is way more advanced in many ways, but there's a reason why whitehouse.gov is a drupal site ... I have seen much more success in terms of ranking for Drupal sites vs Wordpress (worked for me at least).

I wrote an article about that trip, and found amazon links to each of the product we used including -
Tents
Bear Deterrent
Hydration Packs
Shoes
Bungee Cords
- and a LOT more items. Also linked to the borrowlenses program, which pays nice.

The article was broken into 3 parts -
1. Preparing for the Ultimate Getaway with my friends
2. While we were at it
3. Packing & Storing equipment for future use after we returned.

For each product I listed, I had a "requirement" why I needed one of these, a "selection criteria" as in why I picked this specific one over others, and why "YOU" should have one too, if you plan to go on a trek.

Posted a link on FB. 2 or 3 of my friends even shared it but got a handful sales within the next 2 days.It was peanuts for that kind of a sales volume. However, after a brief period of inactivity, it got indexed and now came the search traffic primarily from Google and Bing. Few more sales ...

I answered a few questions at Yahoo answers of people asking about which equipment to use, with a link and more traffic.

Wrote similar articles about day to day products that I owned, and it turned into a personal review blog. Now I have writers who write for me, for specific products and the blog grows. Lot of product pages, but very informative. I enjoy reading those articles myself because those are written way better than the actual fun we had during the events that the articles talk about.

Since that one blog was about camping and outdoor, it is still very focused on that niche,and I have several more that are targeted to different niches.

It's almost on auto pilot now ... the next step for a site like this would be investing some money in products you want to review / compare, and make video reviews. It all depends on how much time you are willing to invest.

One of my subscribers / customer asked me for some help with analytics on his review site. He goes to the level of buying products, bringing them home, reviewing them and returning em back to the store.

It is a business, you can take it to any level, but at first you need to make a plan -
Writing Content (useful, meaningful, helpful content) which without any links in it, should be worth the time your visitors are spending on it. They should learn something from it, or it should answer a question.
Add Links as that is what will get you paid. Try to add images, locally saved images are better, and for SEO purposes, even rename the images so it reflects the product name (Can't hurt right?).
Share this can be confused with backlinking, but once you have new content on your site, share this on social networks, among your friends tell them you wrote an article that will be helpful, ask them to share it with their friends so it reaches the right audience, post on Twitter (create an account if you don't have one), find questions on Yahoo Answers regarding the problem you are solving, and share the link there ... Share on forums wherever applicable.
Don't just write an article, park it and expect something to happen. If your content is good, people will NOT mind you sharing it.
Automate it:
Writing content takes time, lots of it. You can outsource it. If you have a business, you can hire interns at a reasonable cost and have them write for you, even use their help in creating other kinds of content like pictures, videos, podcasts, etc.

Back to making the plan, you must know that the above few steps need to be repeated over and over again. Some people find it useful to add new content on a time table, like every Tuesday new content goes live, then they have set days for different kind of promotions and so on. If you have a plan like this, you will be able to pace yourself right, and see your business grow, slow, but at a steady pace.

Sorry I spoke about "WHAT CAN YOU DO" instead of sharing a template that shows you what an amazon affiliate site should look like. But as long as your content is good, it doesn't matter much which template you are using. Just try to set a template that is clean, has good navigation, not too cluttered, and allows you to provide as much information as you can - Text, Images (like the 2 image example above), Videos, etc.

Last tip (I promise, no more ) Timing plays an important role in what you are promoting also. If you plan to promote electronic products, stay on top of what's the next big thing expected in the market and start writing about it before it is launched. Iphone 6s is coming, get all info about it, and start putting together content ... Superbowl is coming soon, people will buy Televisions - shift your focus to that ... and so on. If you have a flowers and gift site, look at the next occasion, and start promoting. Travel blog? look at the next long weekend, start pushing - car rental for Labor Day Weekend? Hotels at Las Vegas for so and so date ... etc. Hope you get the idea. Be creative, ask less, do more. Testing is your friend. Split Test EVERYTHING you can. There was a tool called Split Test Accelerator see if you can find something like that. (oops broke my promise and gave you another tip) ... Ok over and out.

Good luck and with all the knowledge you have received here, please don't forget about it when you become successful, share it with others who seek help

Cheers