Amazon AFFILIATES, Please Share Your Most PROFITABLE Strategies (Post Panda/Penguin)

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Hey guys, I've recently started posting on the Warrior Forum but I've been a full-time internet marketer for a few years now...

As an experienced Amazon affiliate, I wanted to start a thread that lays out some of the most profitable strategies that top Amazon affiliates are using after the crazy Google(scroogle) updates(panda/penguin).

Here's a very quicklist that I would like to share:

1) Vary the word counts of the various articles and posts on your website/blog. Don't make each and every article a similar word count, such as 300-400 words or whatever. Make sure you have diversity in word counts across your various articles (ranging from 200-1000+ words). This helps to make your site appear more 'organic' within Google's algorithm.

2) Add media to your articles and posts. Try to find images outside of Amazon, and post atleast 3-4 images on your article pages. Also, complementary Youtube videos help as well. Again, adding media helps to increase the quality score of your webpage.

3) Write reviews in the 1st person, trying to convey the sense that you've had some experience with the product or you have insider knowledge.

4) Get links from a wide variety of sources, make sure you build plenty of 'nofollow' links, and create plenty of naked 'raw url' backlinks.

Obviously, there's so much more to share but I'll turn it over now to other experienced Amazon affiliates to share their top strategies with us........................
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  • Banned
    I just pushed a site to 200 unique visitors/day within 6 weeks and only used dofollow links and each article is the same size and on top of that it was $2/500 words content.

    Besides that I only used high PR blog posts and a few social profiles and a handful of Youtube video's.

    Total costs: $250,-
    • 26* 500 word articles * $2 = $52,- + 3* 1000 word articles = $30 = $82,-
    • link building content + placement by VA's = $118,- (for the ease of math_)
    • time for VA to make it look all nice and place affiliate links and images $50,-

    Website is now making on average $5/day

    Conversion from site visitor to sale on Amazon: 0,5% so plenty of room to grow.

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    Should actually be $60 income to date but 2 sales aren't shipped yet, they came in yesterday and the day before. Visitors also climbed up to 200 unique's last night and made this thing yesterday afternoon.

    The excel sheet shows the kw, where it ranks in Google and the exact amount of searches/month, I only picked the ones with the highest amount of searches, tons of kw's with less searches rank at page 1 obvious.

    The strange places of the map is one of my VA's I suppose and me in Thailand.

    So far it seems to be the most profitable Amazon project for me when looking at ROI.
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  • Nice post nik0

    would like to know more numbers.

    How many high PR links? And what do the VA's do in terms of link building been following wolfs strategy and it is working well and I am looking at up-scaling it but as much as I feel the strategy (wolfs) is really good I do feel sprinkling links at my site and I would be making much more.
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      - 55 high PR blog posts
      - 6 Youtube video's (same channel)
      - Google+, Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, LinkedIn account (no activity there)

      VA's just placed the posts that my writer wrote and they created the social accounts and Youtube video's.

      Keep in mind that I have a huge advantage as I have a private network of 150 PR3+ domains as well as a tier 2 network (that haven't used for this site) as well as 100+ guest post sites but there I can only place 4 links as it's divided over 25 broad niches.

      Wolfmiii's strategy is nice, but without a solid back link plan you would miss out on the traffic of the main keywords, once some main kw's ranked at page 1 my traffic instantly doubled and my sales as well and as you can see based on the Google positions there is still a lot of grow potential as most haven't reached page one yet and the ones that are show up at the bottom of page one. With some more link building the traffic can increase hugely without needing any more content.
    • Once your site begins to grow, I suggest targeting higher competition products and terms. As you do that, link building can certainly help rank for those more competitive terms. That said, I earn a very large chunk of change every month from my own sites and haven't built a backlink since all do is target the low competition stuff.
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  • Disagree with both of these.

    1) Many of the big review sites have reviews that are of similar length. As long as you've got decent content that converts, the length of each article doesn't make much difference at all.

    4) Actively building 'nofollow' links is a complete waste of time and won't help your rankings. Also, trying to build links from loads different sources will usually result in a lot of spammy links. I'd take a few quality links of the same type over loads of different types of spammy links any day.
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    • I disagree. I have ranked plenty of sites using only 'nofollow' links. These links may not pass any authority (PageRank), but as long as they are contextual they can definitely bump a site up in the Google SERPs.
    • When you say 'big review' sites with similar length content, this statement needs to be qualified. Do you mean all their reviews fall between 300-350 words, I doubt it?

      The other factor with these 'big review' sites can be the presentation of the content, the amount of media they add to their pages, the different types of pages the site hosts...all these factors can influence the Panda algorithm (and to be honest, NO ONE has conclusive, convincing evidence on what Panda truly is, we can only guess).

      Keeping your content presentation diverse, with media, is a pretty safe strategy to stay under the Panda radar. But again, nothing is guaranteed and nothing can be conclusively proven.

      As for building 'no follow' links, you're dead wrong. Building nofollow links is essential to having a natural linking profile. If Google sees all of your links coming from dofollow sources, it looks unnatural because most sites will naturally, organically have nofollow links in their profile.

      All I meant is that if ALL you're doing is building dofollow links, its a good idea to mix some nofollow in there intentionally...

      Other than that, what you said about getting 'a few links from the same sources' is completely going against the principle of Link Diversity, which is absolutely key post-penguin.

      Again, link diversity DOES NOT mean spammy sources...link diversity simply means getting links from a wide variety of decent platforms. Of course, low quality directory links, spammy forum profiles and spammy blog comments should be avoided at the Tier 1.
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  • I don't have a review site per se but I have a good amazon conversion rate (8-15% typically) but need more traffic. Traffic is what is boggling my mind at the moment.
  • it's amazing what just a few high pr links with a little social can do to boost your rankings and quickly.
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    • Unfortunately, the only way to get high PR links is the illegal way, aka, buying them.
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    • Hi kdevarney... could you tell me what you mean by "a little social". Do you mean using something like Social ADR? Or creating backlinks to your money site from FB pages, Twitter, etc.?

      Any insight would be much appreciated.

      Thanks, Westin.
  • I also disagree with points 1 and 4, for the reasons aliduncan said. I see no reason why varying the word count would make Google like your site better.

    I also disagree with point 3. Sure, some people like to make it look as if they have actually bought and tried the product. In my eyes, this is lying to your readers. I don't think that many readers are naive enough to believe that you have bought and tried all the products you have reviewed, especially when you have written 100+ reviews. Trust is going to go way down, and it's evident that you're just trying to make a sale. Give readers the information they want without lying to them.
  • Thanks for sharing that, Niko.

    What is the quality like for the review articles?

    At $2 each I wouldn't imagine them to be very good, but if it is enough to work as indexable and rankable content, I guess that's all you need.
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    • I don't buy this I have read in loads of places you need to be paying $15+ to get good quality, ok it takes time to find someone good below $5 but they can be found. The best advices I can give is put a review together (how you like it set out) and then send the writer this to show them how you want it.
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      It has grammar mistakes and some sentences read weird.

      The Amazon conversion is around 5% and the overall conversion from website visitor to buyer at Amazon is 0,5%. I guess it could be higher when using better content.

      In fact this was just a test to see if Amazon is worth it for me and when I reach my minimum goals by setting it up in a poor way (as in using poor content) then it's a GO for me to scale up big time.
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  • Thanks nik0 for your information\
    I read many post from you. They are very helpful
    What's kind of style for building backlink that you are using ?
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      Mostly high PR blog posts with posts in different sizes from 50 words to 500 words. I also have some sites setup as web directories where I put links.
  • I own 9 or 10 in different niches. That said, I'm really only ever actively working on 4-5 of them at any given time.
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    • I think this is a good number for me also; the one I am working on at the moment is a bit of a passion.


      I found one of your sites from your old site (YouTube) it was a tech site but I see it's no longer up was this a dud witch I am sure you will get from time to time. It was a well setup site and I used it as a template for my site now (completely different niche no copycat)
    • WHAT AN AMAZING THREAD. Very informative!
      Thank you all!
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  • if you use the automatic plugin? I asked what suggestion tool suitable to combine with manual article
    making the original article and the original is preferred google
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