Do Amazon Affiliate sites like this actually work?

12 years ago

I don't know if they actually work, personally I would say NO. Why?

When you click on a product, it shows just some basic information, not a review. When I want to look up information about a product, I'll go directly to Amazon and read the description / information.

IMO they earn not so much.

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pdrs

12 years ago

Nah, I'd bet that site isn't making much if anything, looks like a failed attempt by someone to get into amazon marketing

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WFs

12 years ago

Yeah, that's what I thought :p

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grover69

12 years ago

Sites like that can work, But the main problem I see with this site is too many products on one site. What do I mean by that? This site looks like it's trying to be a mini-amazon. My best performing stores were always focused on a smaller niche. For example, something like water heaters. This site has the word "electronics" in the title, yet there is bath stuff?

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JerryFB 12 years ago

I don't really find the domain name that great at all, especially since it has "electronics" in it when they are clearly selling other stuff.. it's a bit messy (for me as a buyer).
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WFs

12 years ago

That's true. I guess they were just planning on selling electronics but they expanded when they figured they can make more sales.

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MaryPabelate

Banned 12 years ago

Well, it would work in this format too, but the visitor should land the site from targeted keywords like buy, reviews, brand then you can sell the product.

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easternodyssey 12 years ago

Well that site no, it does not even have a ranking so will be intersting in how it develops 1 year from now. Secondly the website is very poorly designed. I think the key to any affiliate oriantated site is to use a mixture of affiliates, never to use just the one affiliate or make the fact that you an affiliate marketer so obvious. Like lets face it some very successful sites are affiliate sites. For example last.fm comprises of 30% advertising, 30% statestical data and 40% affiliate sales. However, what makes them so successful is one the other features they provide, there mixture of affiliate music links and their less obvious affiliate marketing.

I have seen some very good Amazon affiliate sites. One a little while ago was a Joomla Sci-fi site that was constructed using virtualmart, which was well built and very deseptive to the unknowing viewer that it was an Amazon affiliate site. Even though the website may not have been earning a fortune, they where probably earning enough for a living, just wish i could remember the site link to use as an example. However, the website that you showed here is far from a successful Amazon affiliate site, like lets face it, it says it in the banner.
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Abraham L

12 years ago

Almost everything has been said, but lemme share my experience here:

I had a site in June, that made me almost $90. It was a review site. The reason it made so little is because it was barely getting an average of 10-20 visitors a day. All the traffic was coming from search engines.

My website's stats always showed how people spend an average of 2 minutes on my site, almost every day (this is all traffic from the search engines), and they clicked on my links (I had more than 50% CTR all the time).

The key is: How do you get people to spend that much time in your site? That's the key!

(think yourself: what kind of review sites would YOU spend more than a minute or two on? When you answer that question, make that website

Period)

First of all, the site you've shared here simply looks terrible. There is no way, at least me, will spend more than 10 seconds or 15 on the site. I will keep looking for more resources, or reviews, and not click on the links (therefore, no money).

Hope this helps. Take care =)

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dmurphy

12 years ago

Originally Posted by Abraham16

Almost everything has been said, but lemme share my experience here:

I had a site in June, that made me almost $90. It was a review site. The reason it made so little is because it was barely getting an average of 10-20 visitors a day. All the traffic was coming from search engines.

My website's stats always showed how people spend an average of 2 minutes on my site, almost every day (this is all traffic from the search engines), and they clicked on my links (I had more than 50% CTR all the time).

The key is: How do you get people to spend that much time in your site? That's the key!

(think yourself: what kind of review sites would YOU spend more than a minute or two on? When you answer that question, make that website

Period)

First of all, the site you've shared here simply looks terrible. There is no way, at least me, will spend more than 10 seconds or 15 on the site. I will keep looking for more resources, or reviews, and not click on the links (therefore, no money).

Hope this helps. Take care =)

I'm with Abraham here. These sites do make money, as I tested one awhile ago. The key is, keeping great content (as he mentioned) and everything else. Make it worthwhile, and help sell the item but be honest about it too. Don't be scammy.

My site wasn't the prettiest, but it did generate clicks and sales here and there. I never kept up with it because my efforts were better used elsewhere at the time. It was organically ranked, but I think over time it just dropped due to me not caring.

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tmoby

12 years ago

Sites like these are kind of the same concept as auto blogs. Looks like it just scrapes tons of amazon products and descriptions, so very minimal set up and work to maintain. Not going for the huge money making keywords or even smaller niche words. More for tons of super tiny micro searches.

Though it looks rough though, even for an auto-blog type site.

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Tim3

12 years ago

Originally Posted by WFs

I stumbled upon this website and I'm wondering if sites like this actually work. All they contain is amazon product descriptions with an amazon affiliate link. They have thousands of posts like this. Are people successful with this sort of thing?

http://electronicsbestoftheday.com/

Get it to the front pages of the Serps and it will undoubtedly make some sales, when it receives a manual review from a Google employee it will undoubtedly be de-indexed.

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onSubie

12 years ago

Originally Posted by Tim3

Get it to the front pages of the Serps and it will undoubtedly make some sales, when it receives a manual review from a Google employee it will undoubtedly be de-indexed.

Why would it get deindexed?

There is nothing "wrong" with the site, it just isn't the most effective.

Google doesn't de-index a site simply because it isn't "great".

What problems with this site would "undoubtedly" cause Google to remove it from the index entirely?

Mahlon

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Tim3

12 years ago

Originally Posted by onSubie

Why would it get deindexed?

There is nothing "wrong" with the site, it just isn't the most effective.

Google doesn't de-index a site simply because it isn't "great".

What problems with this site would "undoubtedly" cause Google to remove it from the index entirely?

Mahlon

Hey Mahlon,

This is a typical 'thin' affiliate site. (This does not refer to the page count) The site exists only to make money for the owner, it offers little help and little value to the visitor at least for the pages I looked at.

If you were Google would you want this site in your search results?
when you already have hundreds of other sites including Amazon themselves trying to sell the same products.

No disrespect to the owner intended here, I am well aware how long and how much effort it takes to build sites, but if I were he/she I would get a lot of useful info about the products on those pages asap.

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wolfmmiii

12 years ago

Sites that just scrape Amazon content can work. However, what people fail to realize is that most people have already been to Amazon and already read what Amazon has to say. I run a handful of "authority-type" sites and I write all of my own content. I know that people find my sites useful for two main reasons:

I get lots of repeat visitors
My sites often are referenced my much, much larger sites

Sure, those scraper sites are easier to build but how many repeat visitors, type-in traffic, and referral traffic are they getting? Answer: none.

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Vorsiedious

12 years ago

My traffic extension showed the site got hardly any hits; so no, there not making money.

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BarryOnline

12 years ago

That's a typical thin, low quality Amazon affiliate site. AKA crash and burn type site.

It's not going to see much conversions or organic search traffic.

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Randall Magwood

12 years ago

That site tells me nothing. I would say it isn't making any money.

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SeoDemon

12 years ago

looks like someone is testing, i wouldn't buy from such site, looks horrible

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igl0w

12 years ago

theres too many of this sites now to make cash

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amahoo

12 years ago

won't tell the truth

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mego818

12 years ago

I know some people who make good money with amazon sites like that one. However, in my experience, they are hard to rank after you add the amazon links. They act as kind of an anchor weighing you down.

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Matida 12 years ago

I think you can make money with sites like these, but the key is to keep focus. You have to pick a small niche or a sub-niche and stick to that. This site is way too broad.
Also, you have to put in some effort in updating and maintaining the site. Write a couple of reviews yourself and filter out any unwanted products. If you treat it like an autoblog type of site you will see little to no results.
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Manoj V

12 years ago

The only way it might work is if someone searching for a Logitech Wireless Combo and Mouse(for example) happens to see a sponsored ad at the top of the page even higher than Google results and clicks through to Amazon.

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