Promoting an Amazon Affiliate Store - What Else Besides Articles/Content for Promotion?

I am going to see if I can find some cheap vouchers to start with, do some testing, and see how that goes. I am off to go write more articles today, I will update along the way.

how fast can you say de-index? Ok, all sites may not get indexed, but I have about 20 sites, and more then half have been deindexed from 20k pages down to something like 1k-2k pages. I have one site that has 60k products, but only 500 or so indexed pages, after 3 months, still no pennies....

every good reason to be afraid, you can invest, spend, invest more, and still get no where; I have spent $2k, and I have hardly made a fraction of that back, so you have good reason to fear, but if you dont try...

Now that I have spent way to much money, and learned a few things
along the way, now I will have to re-do all of my sites, but they all
will not be redone at the same time. I am telling you now; work one
site at a time! You will save tons of money, and your sanity too...dont be so egar and in a rush to setup 5,10,20 sites that will simply go no where. When you learn from that one site, and start earning $25/mo then maybe you
are ready to setup 2 or 3 more because you are learning as you go....

95% of my sites are fail, the other 5% may have gotten a little lucky
while google booted my other sites; So I am making just enough to
cover my VPS, and yearly renewals on about 20 domains, and
30 more not even in-use...take it from someone that has learned
the lessons the hard way; You can make money, but it will take time...
It does not matter how fast you work or how desperate you want
to make money, google will let you make money when they feel
you deserve to make money by setting up quality sites, not before...

I learned a few things over the months, but it come with
a high price tag, now I am starting over once again....

take my advice, you wont regret it....

PS. Like everyone else, I imported duplicate content also...DONT!
I have been using a mix of some dup, unique, curated content over
the last month, and that is probably what has saved my remaining
sites from going completely in the toilet...You will not be penalized for
having duplicate content, but google may decide over all that your
url/content is not worth having, crap, or other, and de-index it....

You are better off having a budget, lets face it, this isnt the 90s any
more, you are competing with 1000's of other affiliates having millions
of other product pages; You really cant start on a shoestring budget
like you could a few years back; its not impossible, only if you want
to wait 3-5 years longer to get in the game; You have to get out
there, and you have to be seen, otherwise no-one will come....

The post above mine was spot on about YouTube, web20, sorry to say, but
that is yet more investment; I just paid $5 on fiveer to have my first video
done but this hot product reviewer, she reminds me of that Latino women
that plays on modern family...Its going to be a hot video, and that is how
your use serps to your advantage, upload that baby to youtube linking back
to your site, and if you have extra spammy links to build then send them to
that youtube video, and your serps will increase...now I am going to take
that Hot Latino video and place on my blog that fits the content, then
I am going to add more content, couple images, and boom, I have
a quality post, not only will that post get a boost in the serps, my overall
site will also because it is part of my site, of course $5 this, and $5
that can add up, but as another member said, its part of business....
It is your invest that it will pay off in the future as your site grows, and
I assure, it will not grow from $0 to $500/mo in 30 minutes or less....

But that video was just a last min thing, I never tried it, I never got one,
I should have it in a few days, but I still have to re-organized my entire
network, which is going to take time, and I am not even going to lie, it
may take months to re-organize and simply because I should have never
ever started off with so many damn sites and so much frustration that
I almost wanted to quick and I seen most of it going no where.

This time I am starting from the ground up just on one blank domain using
another plugin (current one is a big time failure) and I will do one store
at a time, and I am not going to worry about the other 19 sites because
you cant, you have to be successful at one before you can be a success
at a few or a few more; Everything is planned, and I am ready to take action.
and with what I have learned; I expect this site to over-take 19 other stores...

and this comment goes to the person that says he put x amount of articles on his
site; If you just randomly posted articles with no keyword research, then you have
already failed. You cant just post an article, and that is it. You have to do
keyword research, and place those keywords in your articles in order to get
traffic, otherwise, you may end up getting low organic traffic, maybe with 0 sales.
Maybe you have done your keyword research, dunno, I do not think you said....
so if you are selling "best solar flares" what-ever the hell that is, then you need
to need to find long tail keywords concerning "best solar flares" ie: best solar flares
in the world, best solar flares on the planet, best solar flares in the US, and so on...
and you will not even know the value to these until you do the keyword research.....

I hope someone tells me they learned something from
this; Because this really took me a while to write