What is your best Amazon money maker?

I am not telling

For me video reviews works very well. But the most important is use a very good product research like AZON...
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I agree that product research is important and you should always try to target the most profitable ones.

Do you go for mass articles at cheap price tags or do you prefer to make some high ticket sales?

In my experience, what makes the most money from Amazon is what makes the most money from almost any kind of affiliate marketing: you need to build a responsive list of people who trust and respect you, after establishing credibility with them, so that your recommendations carry weight with them and they buy on the strength of those recommendations. However you look at it, this is what the whole thing boils down to.

That's the underlying basis of affiliate sales. You need to have ready access to a responsive audience who buy on your recommendations.

What sort of "plug-ins" and "blogs" you use has almost nothing to do with it at all. By comparison with the above, it isn't very relevant. It just isn't an income-determinant.

I happen not to use WordPress myself, for any of my sites, but that doesn't matter. You can do what I do, and what other successful Amazon affiliates do, with WordPress or without it. That's a minor operational detail only.

I don't. My subscribers, visitors and readers tell me they hate video, so it's something I stay well away from, myself. Large numbers of marketers seem to share this perspective: http://www.warriorforum.com/off-topi...o-content.html

I don't, really, myself. I think they might be suitable for search engine traffic, but (although I do get floods of it) I can't make a living that way.

Well, in that case, let's keep on stressing that affiliate sales are about building trust-based relationships with people, establishing credibility and respect, so that increasing numbers of people buy, and continue to buy at higher prices, on the strength of your recommendations. Most of the long-term money in affiliate marketing comes from retaining your traffic, and making repeated sales to the same customers.

It's not much about videos, plug-ins, widgets and banners at all.

Those things (perhaps) all have their place, but they're very much peripheral and incidental to the real business-building. I don't use them, myself. The people I know who are most successful with Amazon sales aren't too interested in them, overall. They interest marketers who have incentives of their own to sell and promote them, and to sell and promote services relating to them, of course, but that's not so much about people making money from Amazon, is it?

Thanks Alexa and Kurt for your opinions on this. I think video content is more suitable for traffic purposes and the conversion should happen on a website wether a review blog or ecommerce style site.

If you know what you do plugins aren't necessary but I still think they can be of great benefit in some cases.

I sometimes like to use the amazon carousel widget.It's probably the only one that converts relatively well.However,It's only useable when you are promoting multiple products on your post.Like say you have a post on "Top 10 Microvaves" ,then you can have a carousel widget with 10 ten microvaes that you recommend.It's interactive so users seem to enjoy it.

Simple InText links work the best, which I still find surprising!

I have authority sites, smaller targeted 15-20 page sites, Squidoo lenses and You Tube videos pointing to my site and lenses.

My strategy is to get as many portals to Amazon out there as possible, with Google's strange algorithms over the last 18 months or so, it is hit and miss which ones get traffic.
My long term strategy is building authority sites as safely as I can.

I use Igor's contextazon, autocompletezon and comparazon on my sites.

I love Amazon!

Hey Stevie,

thanks for sharing your thoughts and the plugin recommendations. I think at least someone will profit from that :-)

I often hear that simple text links convert very good, for me Images work well too.