20 Tips I Used To Make $90,336.65 With Amazon
I’ve been using Amazon’s affiliate program for a little over two years and during that time I’ve had a lot of success with it. In fact, this income source was the second largest chunk of my total $150k+ 2010 income. If I hadn’t sold one of my larger Amazon focused sites last year for six figures this income source would have easily eclipsed $100,000 by now.
Amazon Income Results For Last 2 Years $90,336.65:
Ok, seeing my income is great and all but how does it help you? Well, the reason I show a screen shot is to make sure you know that the advice I’m sharing is based on stuff I truly know and that this isn’t just another one of those list posts built on fluff that sucks.
One of the things I’ve done over the past two years is track the methods I use to make money with Amazon by tracking IDs as well as keeping track of other things I’ve done while building up my Amazon websites. I initially published my findings in two blog posts early last year when I first launched this blog and even today they are still among the most popular posts (here and here). Now it’s been over a year and today I’m providing an updated list of information including several new tips that I’ve learned since that time.
Top 20 Ways To Make Money With Amazon Associates:
1. Niche Selection Is Crucial
I’ll get to the actual methods I use on my websites in the next tips, but the first thing I want to say is that the niche you choose is the absolute most important decision you can make.
I love to target physical product focused niches and keywords
It’s easiest to make money using Amazon’s affiliate program if the people coming to your website are looking for a specific product that your website discusses. It’s more difficult to use a website like my blog here and make money linking to physical products because the people coming here are looking for advice on how to earn money online – not what iPod speakers they should buy.
2. Link To Products Inside Your Content
Roughly half of my Amazon income comes from basic text links posted inside the content body area of a blog post or page.
Example: Check out this cool helicopter
Simple text links in the content of an article are the most effective way to get web visitors to click. People trust the body of the content on a page more so than any other area of the website and I know this because the tracking data I’ve collected.
3. Make Product Images Clickable Affiliate Links:
The second best thing I’ve found next to a simple text link is to use images of the product you’re talking about and make them clickable like this cool usb missile launcher:
Roughly 15% of my total Amazon income has come from simply making all of the product images on my websites clickable affiliate links.
If you’re not sure how to do this with the HTML code, I made an image to show you (click here to see it)
4. Link To Amazon.com As Many Times Possible
I alluded to this in the previous few tips but I want to make sure you understand that each link inside one of your articles is another opportunity for a visitor to click through and make their way onto Amazon.com.
It’s common for me to link to Amazon five to ten times in a single article (more if I’m doing a product review).
5. Product Review Articles Convert The Best
Doing a quality product review for a product directly related to your niche is a very easy way to garner higher click thru rates and increased sales, but only if your review is higher quality.
Ideally you contact the manufacturer’s marketing team or PR agency and get them to send you a demo unit of the product to review, but this takes a lot of effort and may not be worth it on a smaller traffic site (at first).
You want to convince the reader to investigate their purchase options by the time they finish reading an article, which is why I’ll always include links to all of the products mentioned in a review at the end of the article. That way it’s an easy transition from learning about the product during your review and then at the end it’s time to make a purchase.
Example: See this USB Missile Launcher on Amazon.com
6. Build An Email List
You’ve probably heard this a hundred times by people telling you to build an email list from the blogger and internet marketing crowd, but building an email list is way easier on a physical product oriented website.
Why? People don’t have their guard up when they are researching a physical product to purchase (when compared to other purchase decisions online i.e. digital goods). So what I like to do is offer some type of freebie like a buyers guide or some type of information that provides more details about the products they’re researching.
On the flip side, I’d love for you to join my email list for this blog but I have to be a little more convincing by showing you that I’m a credible resource first. (Already convinced? Sign up here ;D)
For my newsletter provider I use Aweber and highly recommend them. Overall I could attribute at least five to ten percent of my total income due to my email lists because I like to focus on promoting products heavily to my lists during the holidays which leads into my next tip.
7. Write Sales And Promos During The Holidays
I typically made between $500 and $1,000 a day every day during Black Friday Week, Cyber Monday and Cyber Week. It is lower during other holidays like Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, Presidents Day, Valentines Day etc. but you can still promote various sales during these holidays as well. I target every holiday because Amazon creates an actual dedicated sales page every time one of these holidays come around. The deals shared on these pages are generally really good too.
So what I’ll do is put together an article of all the top products that are on sale in my niche using the tips I’ve shared earlier like linking as many times as possible, making the product image clickable and then sending out an email to my list etc. to get even more conversions.
Stats From A “Cyber Monday (My Niche) Discounts” Post Last Year
(Some of that traffic pop is also attributed to the day I mail out to my email lists though)
For the structure of these articles I like to target a frequently searched keyword such as “Cyber Monday (My Niche) Discounts” etc. because I know people search for “Cyber Monday” and “Black Friday” millions of times each year but they also search a longer form version like “Cyber Monday (My Niche) Discounts” as evidenced by the above traffic graph from one of my Amazon sites
8. Sell More Products To Make Incrementally More Money
This one sounds simple enough and it really is. The more you sell with Amazon the more you make AND the higher percentage you earn. During holiday months I will typically hit around the 8% mark which is double the 4% rate you start with for shipping only 1 – 6 items per month. Even if you sold 7 items you get bumped up to 6% and the best part is that this increase in commission percentage is retroactive (meaning once you reach the next level you get to apply the higher percentage referral fee to every product you’ve sold during the entire month).
9. Sell Large Quantities Of Inexpensive Products To Boost Your Payout On High Priced Products
One thing I do is have websites that are set up in lower competition niches where the items typically aren’t as expensive and where it’s easier to sell these products in larger quantities ($50 or less). Then I have other niche sites that sell more expensive products at much higher prices ($XXX – $X,XXX) that are sold less frequently. So this way I get to use the increased quantity of sales from these lower priced product websites to help me get up into higher payout brackets so instead of making 6% on that high end item I’ll get 8% instead.
10. Use Multiple Tracking ID’s For Each Website
By default Amazon assigns you one tracking ID like blahblahblah-20 but you can create additional tracking ID’s here up to a total of 100. If you hit that total you can always ask for more so feel free to be liberal with your creation of tracking ID’s for your websites.
You wouldn’t install the same Google Analytics code on every single website you own right? Of course not, because you wouldn’t be able to tell how much traffic each of your websites were receiving individually. So the same thing can be said for tracking the money you make on your websites (and yet people still tell me they use only one Amazon tracking ID for all of their websites /facepalm). In the past I’ve gone so far as to create 15 different tracking ID’s for use on a single website.
11. Use EasyAzon To Save Time And Make More Money With Amazon
One of the ways I’ve also been able to make good money with Amazon is to automatically populate information from a WordPress plugin that I had developed based on the needs I had for building Amazon centric websites. The result was EasyAzon. The plugin allows you to insert information and affiliate links to Amazon in a much faster way than creating the links yourself by hand from Amazon.com.
Short Summary: Basically what the plugin does is allow you to quickly insert a text based affiliate link, the image of the product as an affiliate link, a product information grid, convert US Amazon links to UK, GR etc. via link localization etc. etc. and have all those things be affiliate links to Amazon.com so it does a great job of improving click through rates.
The plugin is currently only $47 and available at EasyAzon.com
12. Insert Buy Now Button Into Your Articles
This is something that ReviewAzon could do automatically for you, but if you don’t want to spend the money you can simply insert your own buy now button and turn it into an Amazon affiliate link.
13. Create A Product Comparison Grid
Creating a product comparison grid for all of the products within your niche and allowing people to sort by various features is a great way to get some additional sales. I’ve used this tactic on several of my websites and the product comparison page alone can add an additional 5% to 10% income increase for a website.
You can do it two ways. The fastest way is to just use ReviewAzon to be able to pick various products you want to use in the grid or you can do it manually which is what I used to do. If you do it manually you’ll need to use this WordPress plugin called WP Table Reloaded and what I do is include various columns for information about the product and in the final column I use a buy now button that people can click to see more info about the product.
14. Publish A Recurring Deals Post
If you want to find a way to be able to mention products that are on sale more frequently on your website one of the easiest ways I’ve done that in the past is to just do a weekly deals post. So what I’ll do is publish a post every week with the best deals for my niche and then incorporate all of the previous tactics I’ve discussed above to link to the products on Amazon.com. Depending on how often you publish articles you could do it more or less frequently (I’ve seen some websites do these style of articles every day).
15. Publish A Monthly Bestseller List
Amazon has a bestseller page found simply at Amazon.com/bestsellers
Just go to Amazon.com/bestsellers
16. Use Carousel Banner Ads Over Static Banner Ads
Through testing I’ve found that the carousel style Amazon banner ads are about 3 times better than the static style Amazon banner ads. Even Adsense out performed static Amazon banner ads in my testing. Here is what the Amazon carousel widgets look like:
You can create the Amazon carousel banner ads inside your Amazon Associates account here and you’re able to manually add products or just display bestselling products from a specific category.
17. Don’t Bother Creating An Amazon Astore
When I created a store page and used the Amazon Astore tool to “build my own store” I found it converted terribly. Less than 1% of my total income came from Amazon Astore pages before I stopped using them. If you’re not familiar with Astore’s just take my word for it when I say they suck.
I know people like to shop, but sometimes I believe they’d rather just find a resource that tells them what the best deal is instead. Whatever the reason, the tracking data I used to track my Amazon Astore’s showed that they routinely underperformed.
18. Use A Website Layout That Improves Conversions
I’ve been using Amazon’s affiliate program heavily for a little over two years now and the one thing I found through constant testing is that the layout of your website matters when it comes to how well it converts casual visitors into affiliate sales.
Armed with this knowledge you’d think that people would spend more time testing their theme or website layout to determine the optimal way to make money from their website right? Well, I still see some of the worst converting themes around and that’s why I actually paid for a theme to be created specifically for these physical product focused websites I had been building.
Azon Theme Created:
I spent around $2,000 on the creation and subsequent modifications of Azon Theme. It’s basically a theme with a ton of different options that has evolved based on my own testing and the feedback from members of my Niche Profit Course (all customers get Azon Theme and the upgrades for free). You can watch a brief video which covers some of the Azon Theme options here and if you want to buy it there the price is $97 (but like I said before it’s free if you buy Niche Profit Course instead)
19. Just Get People On To Amazon.com
I know 30% of my earnings came from products people bought because I happened to be the one that sent them onto Amazon.com. For example, I sold a watch a while ago for $5,000 and got a $400 commission but I don’t even own a website that even remotely discusses watches. This is one of the other reasons why I love using Amazon’s affiliate program.
When you send someone to Amazon.com you get a percentage of anything they buy for the next 24 hours (30 days if they added an item to their cart) so if you can just get them onto the website and they happen to buy something completely unrelated you’ll get the money for it.
Amazon spends millions of dollars on improving the way they get people to convert. The fact that they provide a custom user experience for every person that goes to Amazon.com based on the buying behavior and viewing patterns tells me they know what it takes to close a sale. Some of the best closing advice I can give is to simply find ways to get your visitors onto the Amazon.com webpage and they’ll take care of the rest.
20. Learn More From Niche Profit Course
If you’re read this far then I’m sure you’re still interested in ways to make more money with Amazon.com (or to just finally get started). So I actually created a training course with over 3 hours of video content to walk people step by step through how I build my Amazon sites in addition to showing a few of my own Amazon income generating sites so you can learn from my example.
I don’t need to push a hard sale here, because my numbers speak for themselves. I’ve earned $90,336.65 with Amazon’s affiliate program in the past 2 years and even sold one of my Amazon style websites in a deal worth six figures five months ago.
If you want to learn more check out my Niche Profit Course. It’s a one time price of $97 and we’re just about to cross the 800 member mark.
Check out Niche Profit Course here
Wrap Up
This article has taken me several hours to create and edit so I’d love to hear your feedback. Please let me know what you think of my tips by posting in the comments below. As always, because I love my readers I respond to each and every question that comes in so get to it!
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great write up and tips.
i use the ebay affiliate program and adsense for most of my earnings so far.
i love that the ebay cookie stays active for several days. i’ve sold lots of products that i have never promoted.
i’ve recently bought a few plugins to promote amazon, so i’m going to make a push to get some amazon sales going.
mike
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Gregory C. Reply:
August 11th, 2011 at 5:20 pm
Agreed, great guide.
I’m still a total newbie with Amazon, so this is a great place to start, I’ve heard it’s hard to get the ball rolling with Amazon but once you find the right niche, getting the affiliate sales for products is quite easy when done right.
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Hi Chris
I completed free ebook and 3 wp themes and received an email with the ebook and link to same, however there is no mention or inclusion of the 3 themes
could you send them through please.
also, you mention artisteer in the article – is this a wp theme and who sells it etc
and could you list a few of your sites so i can actually see how you implement thethings you state above
many thanks
Steve
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Chris Guthrie Reply:
May 2nd, 2011 at 2:19 pm
I share a few of my sites inside my Niche Profit Course and I don’t really share them here on this website. Yah I need to update the newsletter. The themes come through on the third email right now…
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Chris. Love this article as I’ve used amazon and been amazed myself at the potential. One thing though. With the latest google panda update they have targeted affiliate links and thin content…has this affected your sites at all? I really want to starta few sites based off amazon but am a little hesitant since I’m not sure what google will think
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Chris Guthrie Reply:
May 4th, 2011 at 1:01 am
I haven’t noticed them target websites with affiliate links but yes low quality content is not the best (I don’t do very many low quality content sites though)
If you’re not sure just go for the longer term approach and build something awesome that’s better than all of the sites you’re competing against.
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Shane Reply:
May 4th, 2011 at 9:06 am
Thanks Chris – - the only other thought I had was the states that Amazon has pulled out of due to that “internet tax” issue….do you ever get concerned about this as it seemed of have really had a massive impact on those with amazon affiliate income.
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Chris Guthrie Reply:
May 4th, 2011 at 3:54 pm
I would just open a business in a separate state and pay a registered agent located in that state to collect my paperwork etc. This isn’t my legal advice though, so if you were making a lot of money and got hosed by the shutdown I’d suggest contacting them for sure.
First, thank you very much for writing this useful article.
Would you mind if I ask how many websites did you build to achieve that level of income? I like to know what kind and how much effort is needed to become that level of income.
thanks again
Robert
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Chris Guthrie Reply:
May 16th, 2011 at 11:25 am
Hey Robert, it really doesn’t matter if it’s 1 or 100. The point is that you need to put in enough effort to build a site better than your target competition has done for any applicable market.
That’s what I do when I set out to create websites.
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Hi – thanks for the excellent article, I’m sure it will be a great help as I find Amazon a bit of a nightmare for getting sales – one thing though, the link you gave for adding extra tracking ids doesn’t work – I think it should be ‘managing tracking ids’ not ‘add’.
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Chris Guthrie Reply:
May 16th, 2011 at 11:26 am
Odd… it was working for me? I figured linking inside the affiliate login protected website might be somewhat of an issue anyway.
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…agree completely I have found text links to convert the best, and going micro niche, every month is better than the last, and looking at ways to take it forward now, looking forward to reading more of your work, thanks
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Hi, Thanks for the really good article. I notice in your section about text links to Amazon they open in the same window. I have trying to find out how to open them in a new window with no luck. Any ideas? Thanks.
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Chris Guthrie Reply:
June 1st, 2011 at 2:34 pm
Check out this link: http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_links.asp
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Wow! This is surely one of the best guides for making money with Amazon Associates I’ve ever seen. Truly useful points and much to learn! I’m also using an Amazon aStore and I agree with you, it’s worthless. Thanks for sharing these tips, I will try these techniques and I hope I can get a bigger check next time
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That was a great article. I recently took a course on selling Amazon products and your article was a very good addition to that training. Thank you.
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great post, I didnt think that you could actually make that amount of money with amazon, very inspiring.
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Way to share your actual earnings report.
Question…do you have recommendations for somebody who lives in a state that Amazon has dropped? My state was dropped last month.
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Chris Guthrie Reply:
August 4th, 2011 at 1:30 pm
http://www.makemoneyontheinternet.com/what-to-do-when-amazon-shuts-down-their-affiliate-program-in-your-state/
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Thanks for this info. Gives me inspiration to carry on with my Amazon sites and grow my income! Have made a few sales but a slow start.
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Hi Chris
I am glad I found U, as someone who has knowledge & a successful experience with Amazon Associate. My question is: as I live in the Middle East, is there chance to do well with amazon.com ??
I am asking that , cause I believe that this kind of affiliate do well for someone who is living in USA, that is maybe related to delivery and freight costs.
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Chris Guthrie Reply:
August 16th, 2011 at 9:54 am
Well, I’m pretty sure you can have an Amazon US affiliate account in any country. I have several friends from Canada and Australia that have affiliate relationships with Amazon US.
The key is to just target the US affiliates
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mitz Reply:
October 27th, 2011 at 6:04 am
Hi Chris I am in Australia and sell for Amazon US.. I even buy stuff from there…
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Rob W. Reply:
May 4th, 2012 at 7:32 pm
Soraya: I’m based in Chile and earn via Amazon. As Chris said, my sites that do the best are those that have the most traffic from the States though expats.
I found the a-store a complete waste of time. Why would anyone want to browse your “store” when they can just as easily go to the real deal.
I find that product images convert well as do the links within the text.
Have a great day!
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Hey Chris,
Honestly if your making that much money online as you say you are, why do you need to charge people for the Niche Profit Course. Surely shouldn’t you do this for free?
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Chris Guthrie Reply:
August 16th, 2011 at 10:14 am
I charge for the information because it took me 3 weeks to put together the course. My time has value and I work for free on most of the things I do on this blog so I don’t think it’s a bad thing to ask for money when I’m selling information I put a lot of time into creating.
I also show off some of my live income generating websites inside the course and the more people that see them the more likely it is for those niches to be burned out. So I’d rather charge for access to step by step information and access to live example websites I have up and running that are making money so people can examine them and apply what they’ve learned to other niches.
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Hi, you might want to tell your readers who use Blogger that inserting a link behind a photo is super easy. All you have to do is click on the photo in post editor (highlight it), then click the link symbol and insert the link. Et voila!
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Chris Guthrie Reply:
August 16th, 2011 at 10:16 am
Yah, Blogger has some tools, but IMO Blogger isn’t as powerful as WordPress and I recommend people always use self hosted solutions.
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Thanks for the information on Amazon Sales. It is inspiring to see your success and look forward to reviewing the information you share.
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Thank you for the great tips. A couple of questions:
How long does it take you to build one amazon site and how many pages is it?
How long does it take before you start getting sales from a new site? I put a new site up and had 13 sales within 30 days and then nothing. Did I just get lucky or do you think it will “kick in”? I have just started doing some bookmarking every day and hope this will help. Comments?
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Chris Guthrie Reply:
September 2nd, 2011 at 8:51 pm
It varies greatly from site to site and to answer your question fully would take several paragraphs. Sign up for my free course on the home page and go through that to see what I mean.
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Using Ebay and Amazon is one of the clever way to make money online. How I wish that I could be as successful as you are in gaining sales within a month. I’m just a newbie and is willing to learn from an expert like you are.
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Wow. That’s a lot of money! I bet your half way being a millionaire.
Thanks for the tips Chris. I really appreciate it. I’ve been trying to earn money from amazon and i really don’t have that much luck. Hopefully, this time i will do it right. Thanks once again.
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I signed up for your free course but the videos will not play. I get the following message: FLOWPLAYER=https://s3.amazonaws.com/mmoti/day2lessonkeyword.flv,960,540. Any suggestions?
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Chris Guthrie Reply:
October 3rd, 2011 at 12:29 pm
Fixed now
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Now, i have spent hours reading through your posts. And am still confused as to how to start.
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Your post does give inspiration. I have just started and built my first site, the backlinking side is the hardest, it takes forever. Keep up the motivational posts, helps me keep going when my clicks = 0 for the day.
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I would like to sell on amazon, but i have been told the coms are to low and therefore really not worth the time….
also building a list like you suggest takes so much time….im just a beginner, i guess ill start with a site and go from there
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Also i wanted to note from my last comment, i did end up trying to join the amazon affiliate program since i last read this, but could not find any general text links that i could attach to any sites that i own (even though its only one or two)
any suggestions on were i could find these?
cheers
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Chris Guthrie Reply:
October 12th, 2011 at 9:31 am
I don’t think I understand the question… you can link to any product or page on Amazon as an affiliate link.
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Realy realy cool.. I just wanna start to use Amazon to earn more money and this is a one start point… excelent post dude
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Chris Guthrie Reply:
October 17th, 2011 at 11:32 am
Thanks Fernando
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Chris, thanks for sharing these fantastic tips.
It is always great to hear real success stories and tips from people who have actually done it.
I have a couple of questions for you.
When I do a search for physical products, I find almost the entire half of the page above the fold dominated by Google’s sponsored ads and sometimes a Google product listing or listings from high sites.
Combine that with images of products in the sponsored ads and brand links at the top, I have found less and less affiliate sites rank on top.
And there is such a drastic difference in traffic between the top 3 spots and the rest of the spots in page 1 in Google.
To add to this, I watched a video on Andrew Hansen’s website where he has a video on a recent document that Google has compiled for their human reviewers to look at to weed out thin affiliate sites.
Do you think Amazon affiliate sites are still profitable?
Have you seen a difference in traffic in any of your Amazon affiliate sites?
Have they affected your sales?
Sorry for asking you so many questions
but I wanted to hear your thoughts.
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Hi Chris, can you check the coupon for reviewazon ? I tried to use but it says invalid.
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Chris Guthrie Reply:
November 22nd, 2011 at 1:08 pm
He’s discontinued all coupon codes. Check out the plugin I developed instead: easyazon.com
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Michael Reply:
November 22nd, 2011 at 2:03 pm
Are you planning on keeping EasyAzon for a while or will you be selling it to someone else, like the coupon code plugin. I’m asking this because I want to be assured that you’ll be supporting it with updates and not relying on a future owner who may or may not update it.
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Chris Guthrie Reply:
November 23rd, 2011 at 10:09 am
No, I’m not going to sell EasyAzon. I’m updating it mid December to the tune of several thousand dollars for a free update to customers.
Are you still using Reviewazon/phpzon on your website or you use Easyazon ?
Why you use your own plugin instead of other amazon plugin ?
Thank you.
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Chris Guthrie Reply:
November 25th, 2011 at 11:14 am
EasyAzon on all my new sites only. The reason why I use it is because I paid thousand of dollars to have it developed into the best tool I could think of based on the way I like to build amazon focused websites. I believe it to be faster / easier to use than all of the other plugins.
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I see that on WF forum, you say that you don’t use “no follow” or cloak amazon links. At the moment, do you still just post amazon link without “no follow” tag or cloak link ?
Really like your easyazon, and I consider to buy after finding more info about it.
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Chris Guthrie Reply:
November 25th, 2011 at 11:12 am
Don’t currently cloak my Amazon affiliate links nope
or no follow.
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I have heard others praise easyazon. You have quite a lot of amazing content here. I underestimated amazon’s affiliate potential greatly.
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Beginning of December, I saw some of my websites are losing rankings, most of them are promoting Amazon and using amazon plugin. Do you see any of your website that promoting Amazon also loss rankings ? Just curious.
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Chris Guthrie Reply:
December 2nd, 2011 at 11:14 am
Nope haven’t seen any drops… it’s most likely unrelated and more likely related to quality of content / links / algorithm changes.
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Chris is a rocking teacher. I got Niche Profit Course back to March. I had my first 4-digit Amazon month in Nov. I’m working hard to rank my sites and have another break-through in Dec!
For those who are still considering, this is the blueprint if you wanna get paid check from Amazon.
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Chris Guthrie Reply:
December 4th, 2011 at 7:45 pm
Hey Kent,
Thanks for sharing your experience that’s awesome.
Chris
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Chris -
In regards to Tip #4, do you ever find your sites being penalized for linking back to Amazon too much or too early in a post?
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Chris Guthrie Reply:
December 8th, 2011 at 10:48 am
I’ve never seen this happen before. If your site has been penalized it’s more likely based on how you built your links and not how much you’ve linked to a product on Amazon.
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Thank you so much for your information as well as the inspiration. I just started my Amazon dance so to speak and am working really hard, hoping for success.
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I have a website that sells home and garden decor and I’m starting to turn it into an Amazon affiliate site. I already have some good traffic comng to the site but these tips will help me branch out and try different methods. Any advice you could give me on promoting the affiliate site?
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Thanks for tip #13. I will create a Product Comparison Grid as soon as possible to offer more value to my visitors and to get them through to amazon easier. Hope the installation of the plugin is easy so i can get started right away.
Btw, yo ushould convert this valuable post into something like an ebook. Not only does the post itself contain all the information needed to profit fromo amazon, but there are also lots of nuggets in the comments. – Thanks for this.
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At first I was reluctant to promote Amazon.com due to the poor cookie duration and low commissions. However, since Amazon has a huge inventory, it’s a trusted site, and you also get credit for sales customers make even though you weren’t necessarily promoting that specific product, it tends to make up for the negatives, so I have started promoting Amazon more. Great post btw!
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Hi Chris,
Thanks for your point for point description of what has worked for you. You have certainly given credibility to testing your results. Doing the technical aspect of setting the structured sites and e-mail marketing has been challenging for me. You have clearly described how the more sales you make your percentage goes up and you make more money. Apparently there are tested formulas that work for Amazon sales and getting people to Amazon sounds like a winner.
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I’m happy with your information about the Amazon affiliate. I have recently started to try an Amazon affiliate. I hope to able to practice what you described through this site and be successful. Thank you very much.
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I just started doing amazon associate affiliate marketing about 5 days ago. I was doing direct sales on my site of 13,000 pages of products.
Just adding the amazon affiliate links with a “buy at amazon button” ended up netting me already $75 bucks a day. $375 so far, last I checked.
So, I see huge potential in this and obviously, affiliate marketing is better than having to do direct sales (as of the work and such involved and the competition online anymore).
At any rate, I am now adding Ebay links as well and looking into even more affiliate programs.
Further, will be adding a massive amount more products over time and hope to make some very serious money from this.
I have been selling online for 12 years, so I am no newbie to just about any type of online selling. I just never got around to the whole affiliate thing, so glad I finally got around to it..
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Interesting writing tips Chris. I have recently created a niche blog and selected a “Birthday Gift Ideas” as my topic, never made any sale yet:S
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