How to choose a Profitable Amazon product to promote?

Or, instead of trying to find the "perfect product" that fits some arbitrary statistical guidelines, do to this:

1. Find a product that your niche wants/needs desperately.
2. Put that offer in front of them.
3.?????
4. Profit.

When I was promoting Amazon products I would always look at the best sellers in each category and see if I could build something around that. My most profitable time with them was when I was writing top ten articles nearly every damn day. Made some serious cash and then Amazon pulled the plug on Colorado associates.

I don't necessarily look at the number of reviews, but I do make sure that the product has at least 3.5 stars - the higher the rating, the more likely people will buy.

I also take a look at the reviews listed on the first page - if they are very negative, it is a big turn-off to buyers.

It is nice to target higher-priced items since they give you a better commission, but there is no set number that should be the minimum.

I don't pay any attention to the search numbers. If the product is one of the bestsellers on Amazon or if it gets a good number of reviews, that tells me people are interested in buying it.

1. The more the better..but most importantly..are they good or bad reviews? No point promoting product with lots of bad reviews.

2. I usually go with $100 and above products. Same works as promoting lesser price products but get more commissions.

I always use this criteria to find profitable Amazon Products to promote:

1. Best-seller or Hot New Release Products
2. has Customer Rating of at least 3.5 stars
3. sells for $79 or higher
4. has gotten at least 10 reviews

One is ok for each product... Just ensure each product/page has it's own review and a great one too. The review should describe the FEATURES as well as BENEFITS of the product.

The higher the better, what really matters is if there demand/market is there. Remember Amazon pay based on commission (4% and above).

Well, if you have a BUYING keyword, 1000 global searches will give you a good commission for products worth over $200. If your conversion rate is good, with a buying keyword you can make atleast a sale everyday because BUYERS has researched the Product and probably made up their mind to Get it. Again, this depends on your site conversion and a few other factors.

If it's not a buying keyword, i usually don't settle for anything less than 3, 500 global searches, again, the higher the better but note the higher the search query the stiffer the competition.

I have answered that above.

Use your affiliate links in your site/blog and possibly have a BUY Amazon button. It works like MAD and build confidence.

What Else?

Listen to what other reputable members here are going to contribute..

PM me with your email address and i will forward you a GazCooper Amazon PDF Not by me but i found it great for beginners.

Goodluck

If you start with the Amazon Bestsellers , you will have a great starting point for researching good products. Be sure to click on the other 5 tabs at the top (Top Rated, Hot New Releases, Etc.) for more great ideas.

Others may disagree but this is what works very, very well for me:

1. No minimum. TBH, most products that I target have no more than 2 or 3
2. I don't promote anything under $150
3. I don't care about search metrics. I simply target products that other people aren't. This makes it easy to rank.
4. Again, I don't care

5. Do what others are not. Target products that are easy to rank for and you will make money.

1. You don't really need to worry about a minimum number of reviews - but what you do need to be concerned with is how much information there is in the reviews that are there. For example, 100 reviews of one line each isn't much good, but if you have 10 reviews which are each several paragraphs long then you can really get a sense of the product in question. This is important because once you can understand the product you can pass that understanding on to your readers - or in other words, you can offer real value to your readers. G likes high quality value-providing content and those who have low quality content are currently being and will continue to be punished by Google for the foreseeable future.

2. Price is an interesting one. It sort of depends on the product - but of course the cheaper something is the more likely people are to buy it. I think the sweet spot is $80-200 - not too high and not too low, so people are still ok with spending that much online but you'll also get a nice amount of commission per sale.

3. In terms of keywords, for individual products the exact number of searches doesn't need to be as high as the number of searches for a niche overall. For an individual product you can go for quite a low number of searches even less than 20 per month if you think you can rank well for it - this is because when someone searches for a specific item they are already quite far along in the buying process. I'd say 20-150 exact searches per month is a good range, but of course the higher the better. Although for items which have extremely high search volumes you can be pretty sure that the competition will be pretty intense.

4. I don't concern myself with local searches at all. If your affiliate account is with Amazon.com then you focus on Google.com, if it's with Amazon.co.uk then you focus on Google.co.uk and so on. Ideally, you should sign up for an affiliate account with all Amazon regions and get a plugin which will direct the customer to the right region when they click on your links so you get commission no matter where they are. Just focus on ranking in Google.com unless you're trying to promote a product which is particularly popular in another region for some reason. Also, if you notice that a product is getting searches in both .com and .co.uk for example then you should of course try to rank in both.

5. If I were you I'd pick a niche first and create a home page to rank for a keyword in Google. While picking your main niche also do some keyword research for individual products in that niche. That way you can have a good home page which you can rank for the niche overall while also having inner pages for individual products which you can also rank for more traffic.

6. Some products sell online better than others. Items which are somewhat standard seem to sell best like maybe some sort of computer component. However, products that people would like to pick up and try out before they buy don't obviously sell as well - like maybe a guitar.

Good luck

I heard from guru Kelly Felix that he goes for expensive newly released electronics. That way you can get the exact domain name in advance of the release, and get nice commission on a $2,000 TV for instance, not sure it would be ideal but I was thinking about making $$$ on Amazon too!, I personally would target at least $100 product.

Open nichesuggestions.com (no It's not mine), they will give you some buying trends, you'll get some list, complete with the what you're asking
try it

Use common sense!

Don't mean to be rude here but take a few moments ponder over whether you would buy a particular product online or whether you would go to a brick-and-mortar store to buy it. For example would you buy groceries online? IMO only someone who is severely strapped for time or disabled in some manner would buy online(there may be exceptions but I am trying to drive home a point here, no offense intended).

What about perfumes? Most people would like to "sniff" a perfume with a "tester" before they buy a particular perfume for the first time. Of course repeat customers of a perfume may buy online instead of going to the store again(exceptions again).

I have heard affiliates complain about not being able to sell watches online. Maybe because a lot of buyers like to "see" a watch before buying it, not just see an image of it online.

Take time to think about whether a niche or product will sell online or not. It is true that Amazon is selling items like perfurmes online but then they know that a person who needs a fresh bottle of his favorite Cool Water or Nautica Blue when the one that he is using gets over, would most probably order online. Such a person would not need to read a review of it and would go straight to Amazon.

Over 100 dollars is a good price. Anything less than 50 for me is not worth it.

Monthly searches: around 1000. But you need to check competition etc etc

Actually just look around your home and your friends (especially recuring items if you have kids ) to see how many stuff each one of us have from amazon, that should give a good clue where to start from. I think rather than worry about all other statistics go for the need which you can relate to the most and then go for stats (they are important) but i feel this will make it easy ...

I normally go to the best seller section and see what is selling there mostly. I then find out what to sell which is usually 100-500$ price. And go with it.

Just go over to ebay and see what people are selling a lot of and out title and undercut somebody and its a home run.

look for best sellers, with 60+ reviews

I am also a new amazon shopping affiliate. It remains a mystery to me what to promote. Currently I have put up a pair of shoes. Hope my website visitors won't throw it back at me. God bless me!

You have find a product which people are already buying. You can see this through amazon best seller and then you have to find there are enough products in that niche, if you are planning to build a niche site.

Then do the keyword research and select a list of products that are worth promoting.

Write a review of the product which will help the visitors and put your links and button in such a manner they go amazon site to look further and buy

Good luck with you shoe site.

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