Findings of an Amazon Affiliate Clothing Website
- be legal (copyright, affiliate agreements, law etc)
- be ethical
- no snake oil
- learn as work (beginner on some subjects)
- mother tongue is not english
- product posts (each 120-150 words): 21
- category posts: 7
- articles (each 300-500 words): 6
- product category: 4
- amazon affiliate product links: 48
- cj affiliate image links (300x400): 1
- google indexed page: 223
- google indexed image: 60
- avarage affiliate product price: $40.00
- social media marketing services: N/A
- link generating services: N/A
- ppc services: N/A
- online: 6 months
- domain name registration: $10.00
- logo: $15.00
- hosting: $222.00(3 months vps hosting X $34.00 + 3 months business wordpress hosting x $30.00 + 3 months shared hosting $10.00)
- wordpress theme: $50.00
- wordpress hit/shortlink plugin: $37.00
- wordpress slider plugin: $25.00
- wordpress image tagging plugin: $16.00
- elance content writing (6 articles): $180.00
- elance content writing (10 products articles): $120.00
- stockphoto and badge (6 photo + 1 badge): $60.00
- consumed time: 300 hours
- Keyword, Query, Impressions, Clicks, Average Position, CTR, Global Monthly Searches
- product1, 5, 5, 10.80, 100.00, -
- category1, 5, 5, 2.40, 100.00, -
- product2, 5, 5, 10.80, 100.00, 22
- product3, 5, 5, 4.80, 100.00, 22
- product4, 5, 5, 10.40, 100.00, 36
- product5, 5, 5, 5.80, 100.00, 210
- websitename, 5, 5, 6.20, 100.00, 720
- product6, 12, 5, 21.83, 41.67, 2400
- product7, 16, 5, 8.56, 31.25, 46
- category2, 35, 5, 9.00, 14.29, 46
*just web searches not images
- #1 google keyword tools ideas total searches count (800 keywords adviced at google keyword for 64): 2247203
- #2 google analytics total searches count (64 impressed keywords in website): 21441 (0.0095@#1)
- #3 google analytics nonclicked keywords searches count (54 keywords never clicked but impressed): 16939
- #4 google analytics clicked keywords searches count (10 keywords): 4502 (0.20@#2)
- #5 google analytics clicked keywords impression count (10 keywords): 148 (0.032@#4)
- #6 google analytics nonclicked keywords impression count (54 keywords): 302 (0.014@#2) [a]
- #7 google analytics total click: 55 (0.012@#4)
- #8 amazon affiliate Product Link Clicks: 31 -42 at april 2013- (0.0068@#4)
- #9 amazon affiliate ordered item count: 0 -3 at april 2013-
- #10 amazon affiliate earnings: $0.00 ($3.50 at april 2013)
- #11 cj affiliate Product Link Clicks: 2
- #12 cj affiliate earnings: $0.00 ($0.00 at april 2013)
- #13 total clicked keywords (10 keywords) avarage position :10.31
- #14 missed keywords (54 keywords) click avarage position: 21.04
**just web searches not images
Results
- [a] working on (means targeting 3 keywords in each article and generate 20 articles at 40 hours) 54 keywords (with same products) -#6- to encourage visitors that may get more
avarage $15.00 for a month - [b] working on some special products -like product6- may (not sure never get a sale) efficient than working on generic categories or selected products from amazon top 100s
- [c] reaching all 800 keyword ideas may get all search; means 300 sells and affiliate $ 2000 (this is whole scope may 100 times larger project -2000 post- -not achievable, need 4000 hours-)