I just dumped my orders data for the month into a spreadsheet to do some number-crunching, and found something pretty interesting. A full third of the orders I've received this month were for items that I'm not even recommending or linking to. Most of them were for small items, though I'm not complaining because they pushed me into a new commission tier, and I also nabbed a nice commission on a $388 item.
It could be that the items are already in their carts before they are sent back to Amazon again via your affiliate link (probably while reading your reviews etc.) You get commissions for those too right?
You won't get commission for items that are already on the cart before they click through your link. The only commission you'll get is the one you referred. @BlogsAboutCrap congrats and hope you keep making more sales. On a different note, I recently noticed a refund on a product that was not even referred or bought through my link; and have emailed them. Still waiting to hear from them. If it was a small refund I wouldn't bother, but this is for $25 refund on a digital camera. Now you see how much that is! That's $25 taken from my total April commission Anyway, congrats on your sale.
Good sale! Yes Amazon are very specific about which products they give you commission for. There is of course the 24 hour cookie and any products the person had already (i.e. they were already going to buy) won't be credited to you. But if they add products after they click from your site then its all yours. I agree - Amazon is the best affiliate scheme out there in my opinion. You can trust them, they have a massive range of products, people know them (conversions are much higher) and they have a great API.
Greetings, Than is great. I recently became an Amazon Associates. Are you using an on-line store or a blog and how long have you been with Amazon. Kind Regards
I love Amazon because I can get commission from other product that I don't know and don't promoted them. (But somthings that I promoted can't sell 5555)
That's great news man, I hope you keep on raking it in. For myself I have not made any money as yet, still setting up my store, we will see how things go in the near future. I would be grateful for any advice or tips. Kind Regards.
Forget the store. NOW! You'll get better results writing unique content like comprehensive reviews and comparisons, and linking to the relevant items on Amazon. It is a lot easier for people and search engines to find unique content than some random store. Selling is best done through education, not simply by pointing traffic where you want it to go. All of the big Amazon earners I've interacted with do it through plain old links. I have niche sites with highly-targeted audiences and 100% unique, useful content and I never made a single penny on Amazon with anything other than links, even with well over 20K page views in the past two months. And you must write about what you love - not what has the biggest money-making potential. You will simply not last if you hate what you write about. Ever since I realized that, my online income has skyrocketed. On Amazon, I did like $4 in February, $65 in March, and $165 in April. May looks to be a bit slower in terms of revenue, but my traffic is growing and I'm launching an email newsletter which will ultimately drive more $$$ my way. Stop wasting time setting up your store - just get off your ass and try something. Start a Wordpress blog. You'll probably make nothing at first but just make the initial investment in a quality domain name, get Wordpress on it, and slap a theme on it. It doesn't cost much. I'm still on a $6/month BlueHost plan that included a free domain, and it more than pays for itself. Every major hosting provider makes it super easy to get started with Wordpress, even if you have ZERO experience with it. Or if you really have no budget, just get a domain name and use it with a Blogger blog. Then plan to write one unique piece of content every day every so often. Maybe every day if you can hack it, or every 2 days, 3 days, whatever. Just get unique, useful content (stuff that helps, educates, entertains, etc.) up on it. Once you have 15-20 pieces of content, start promoting it however you're comfortable - social networking, guest posts, forum signatures, link exchange, user-generated content sites, whatever works for you. Quality Wordpress blogs get indexed by Google extremely quickly (I got one indexed in less than 8 hours without any trouble) if you do the basics like submitting to Digg, forum posting, useful comments on good blogs). And if you picked a good niche, you'll slowly get traffic from search engines, and that traffic can be turned into money with some effort and imagination. And if you make $10 in your first month, use that to buy a new domain and start a second site. There is no free lunch online, unless you're a genius or lucky. If you want a lasting revenue stream, you must put in the work and accept that you may be wasting your time, energy, and money. Get started today. The sooner you put in the effort, the sooner you'll know if you're on the right rack. So again, forget the store. Content is everything. If you write good stuff it will make you money so long as you're patient.
It is a good idea to do reviews, setup a blog etc. but I wouldn't forget a store altogether. If you can create unique content for your store, recommend products together, give more details about the products then you are providing good content that the search engines will pick up on.
are you use cookie stuffing?? so that some body buy something at amazon after they visit your cokie stuffed.....
I only direct readers to products I know and trust, or would buy myself. I want people to come back afterwards.
I agree with BlogsAboutCrap although I know a few people who make money out of Amazon stores etc. I do gadget reviews on my blog; They attract daily visitors from search engines and some of then were converted into Amazon sales. It's slow and might be painful but pays off at the end. Besides, I'm doing reviews anyway, so might as well chuck Amazon ad at the bottom of my post
I think this is the best and most sustainable form over time. You need to be able to generate that user/reader/customer again and again. Especially important since he/she has already proven to be ready to buy online if they find something interesting or at a good price. Because of this I think it's very wise to build a relationship with your readers, get them to trust you and what you write, to make them come back time after time. Maybe they even recommend your site to someone else and t grows. Playing fair usually pays off in the long run!
I agree with this one.. build a quality content about the product and you'll get good conversion rate
Quality content, exactly. Too many people are throwing up trash sites and expecting to get results, then moaning about Amazon...
I agree with you, but sometime its hard to manage it manually. SO I use some automatic script to manage it... And until now, to be honest, I still not earn yet from Amazon