How do YOU Amazon?

Nobody wants to share their experience?

I am currently using woothemes with the woocommerce plugin to build an affiliate store in the clothing niche. Built the site last friday using a brandable domain name and been adding products to it ever since. Now, its not exactly a review site, it has product images on the homepage with a read more button, if someone clicks on the button they get taken to the post where there is an iamge of the product, a buy now button and a short description.

Below that is a longer description (50/100 words) telling them more about the product + an option for them to rate or review the product. I add around 3 - 4 products a night, takes about 30 mins at most, by the end of the month i should have around 100 items or so.

Now here`s the kicker. Google appears to be indexing my posts alot quicker than my old standard review site which had 500 word reviews of about 60 products.

Getting a trickle of traffic at the moment, which i expected as i have done very little promotion as yet. Once i get more products on the site, then traffic generation is next on the list.

I'm using Squidoo to sell things on Amazon.
This way I don't need to buy a domain, hosting, etc.
From SEO point of view Squidoo is great, because Squidoo lenses are indexed very fast by Google, and based ony my experience, they can get to first page much easier. (I'm at 1-5 position for half a dozen keyword when there's 30-50 MILLION matches.)
I usually get about 150-200 bucks a month, and I have only 2 big and 1-2 small lenses.

1. I think EMD is better than a branded domain. Google still likes it
2. I wrote 1-2 short informational articles and 20-25 product reviews per page.
3. It doesn't need to be marketed, because I get 6-700 visitors from Google, 1-200 from Squidoo itself.
4. Not much, you can dominate Google with 20-25 great and short reviews.
5. I think it's better if you concentrate on items in the 30$-150$ category. My best selling items cost 60$-80$.
6. You need to write with passion. Highlight the features of the item, but not too much. Keep your review short, a 60-120 words review is perfect. In the end, the visitor will probably buy the product based on its picture.

I don't Amazon because my idiot Governor Pat Quinn tried to strong arm amazon and got bitch slapped by them. Now Illinois residents can't be Amazon affiliates. Not only did he not get the sales tax he wanted but now he no longer gets the income tax from the affiliates either. Genius move there.

Instead of using amazon and adding products manually and reviewing them. Have you thought of cpa offers, clicksure or clickbank. These work and there is no start up cost all you need to do is promote the product through youtube or traffic exchanges. First set up a squeeze page. Drive traffic to the squeeze page. Sales = Profits Also you make more with this than Amazon.

I Amazon unsuccessfully. Amazon is now a verb. To Amazon!

1. Branded all the way. I value my repeat and referral traffic. UnderwaterDigitalCamerasforSaleCheap.org doesn't help me.
2. I'm mostly reviews.
3. Organic SEO. I target low competition products and rank well. Traffic follows.
4. Typically 50-100 reviews (1 per product)
5. Usually higher-ticket items. Someone buying a $16 USB stick isn't looking for a review.
6. I use my own plugin
7. No. I target people who are very late in the buying cycle. These people have their credit cards out. The last thing I want to do is interrupt their purchase.

I used to be an Amazon warrior... $100/day within 30 days... then they banned me for making money too fast.

What I have been trying to do on my Amazon site, is get search engine traffic through content articles because I find it easier to rank for terms that do not have a product in them, and then I try to get the visitors to my sales pages. On articles that have a very logical product to solve issues that I mention in the content page, I direct them to my Amazon product description page while if it is not traffic especially targeted to one product, I try to get them to subscribe to my email list so I can advertise my new posts to them as well as product reviews.

I try to target smaller products when I am directing them at the end of a post, and larger items through my email list.

Randall why do you think they banned you for "making money too fast". I'm trying to understand how that works....

Thanks for the tip verysmartguy.

Be sure you do some video reviews if you can. Adding video reviews really helped to pick up a few of my Amazon sites that were on the decline. Now the traffic and sales have increased.

I agree with wolfmmiii high ticket items are the way to go.

Wolfmmi has the right advice.

I will add to that that when I was promoting an Amazon site, I targeted VS keywords as there where lots of searches and very LOW competition in the SEs.

I build one site around the keyword "Kindle vs Nook review" and eventually sold that site for $8,000 as it was bringing in some nice money every month all from Google traffic

Find those VS keywords and make bank

Freddie