Who makes money as an Amazon affiliate?

I never had much luck with Amazon. For some reason they closed my account with some money in there still. Don't know what's up with that.

Good luck with your site, looks nice.

Your on the right track, you may want to categories your posts. How much traffic are you getting and how are you getting it?

No luck at all.

I will post categories, just running off post names atm until I figure out the structure I want to go with

I only built the site yesterday so I have no meaningful traffic data yet, but here is the keyword research data I gathered for the niche (all low competition "phrase" or "exact" match keywords.

Keywords: "how to clean a window" - 880
"how to wash windows" - 1,600
"how to clean windows" - 8,100
"how to wash a window" - 73
“how to clean window” - 2,900
“how to clean glass” - 9,900
Total - approx. 13,550 phrase match searches a month

Secondary Keywords:
“how to clean mirrors” - 880
“cleaning dirty windows” - 260
“cleaning windows with vinegar” - 720
“best way to clean windows” - 6,600
“best way to wash windows” - 5,400
“window washing solution” - 2,400
Total - approx. 16,200 phrase match searches a month

That's a total of 30K per month low competition phrase match keyword searches that should be pretty easy to rank for considering a poor quality article on wikihow can get this many hits!


After discovering this i made an 8 minute tutorial video and uploaded it to youtube where everything from the username to the tags is search engine optimized and then embedded the video on my site - How To Clean Windows Like A Pro « How To Clean Windows

Tomorrow I will break down the contents of the video into a written step by step tutorial with images and submit it along with the video to wikihow, which should provide bulk flow through traffic and boost page rank dramatically at the same time.

Thanks for that, I thought the links from the citations section were do follow..

Still should get some decent flow through though.

Are there any how to sites that have do follow?

Never had great success with Amazon over the years really, only started using them again recently so can hopefully work on improving it in the near future.

I have got some success with Amazon before the EMD update. Now I am building my affiliate sites again with information blog posts.

I use have some Amazon Associate based music blogs that were very successful about 1.5 years ago.

I had some success with Amazon in the past but it never was a high enough percentage of the sale for me to keep going with it.

I've had some success with amazon before it's totally worth giving a try and what's the worse that could happen you have a few links on your site or banners that simply don't convert?

I've found that writing blog posts and adding the link to the product in the text link works best and even having a banner in the side bar of your site is useful. It's all about traffic though so make sure that you have a good amount of targeted traffic coming to your site.

I know a few people who make a great deal of money using amazon from a review site! Making money on amazon is there, I guess it just takes a little bit of luck and lots of high quality content.

I hope to have more luck with it later down the road!

I earned some money as Amazon affiliate, but not so much. Once I crossed one guy, who made money for living from Amazon, but he was selling his own products there.

Yes i do make money with amazon, I really like it conversions are high

I just took a quick look at your site. It looks like you purchased it in September last year. I am guessing it came up for renewal and you decided to try and make some money off it. With a site that has just been cretaed and no traffic it is going to take a lot of work and an a few months before you are seeing a decent amount of traffic.

When you do start seeing traffic you will on average get only a 1% to 2% clickthru rate. So for every 100 people you are going to only get 1 or 2 people. Then once these couple of people click on your affiliate link you are only going to get about 7% commission.

Now let's look at your site one more time and condiser this. Your site domain is: howtocleanawindow.net. It would be easy to change this site to a clickbank site and sell a registry cleaner product for Windows. When I search on Clickbank the first one I find pays 75% in commission which converts to about $20 per sale.

To make $20 on Amazon you would have to sale almost $300 worth of products. Now I am not promoting Clickbank I am just showing you a different affiliate that could allow you to make more money.

Good Luck,

Michael

Michael has a good point, I have dozens of sites, some promoting my own products, some promoting affiliate information products and some promoting Amazon products. I will say that the sites promoting information bring in 10X+ the profit for the same traffic than the Amazon sites. I have found a couple of niches in Amazon that do reasonably well, but I would NEVER make this my primary income source online - not in a Million years!

Jeff

I did i think close to $200,000 in Sales with the Amazon Associates program Which gave me about 12k in Affiliate commisions but I started back in 2010

The one thing I really like from Amazon is its Hard to fail and is perfect for newbies. however you might want to try other sources of income like CPA which can definitely make you more money in the long run

Anyways all the best to you!

There are lot who made money in amazon. but now it is competitive enough and its hard to earn through amazon.com.
Dont loose ur heart, try with patience, success is waiting on next step.

How to clean window is looking great but its about hardware windows.
I thought its about software windows.

Sure you can make money using the Amazon Associates program. Just like any business it takes work and a long term vision.

I checked out your site and my advice would be to make sure it is appealing not just to search crawlers but to humans. To me it looks like an obvious internet marketing website which would have me bounce off faster than you can say 'make money online'.

You can pickup a good Amazon mini site theme with rich snippet and an inbuilt review system for $30 and get a header designed for just $5. Worth the money.

To make money, find a niche with demand that exceeds supply. Plain and simple.

If you have a billion people trying to profit from amazon, lucky amazon, but you will make pennies.

Amazon affiliate is not part of my internet marketing arsenal but I know of two great ladies here who do make money from it. And, serious money.

Erica Stone and Tiffany Dow. They are both succesfull and very ethical. I am not an affiliate but I thought I'd mention them because they are indeed making money and I am sure you could benefit from their expertise.

Both are quite present on this forum. I think Erica Stone's alias here is "sojourn".

Hope this helps.

The best of luck.

Regards,

Yoan

mee too it's long process. i have no.........

I have promoted lot's of amazon products through product name keyword like Kodak Playsport - Is Mini Camcorder Worth Buying? Shocking Review! and Niche websites or amazon store like Best Fat Burners Store | Top Best Fat Burners.
It really works.

i reckon you will really start earning some money give and take 2 to 3 months .specially when you launch your info products .. good luck
For gods sake change you theme if you want more visitors and conversions in the future ..azontheme bahhh