Hey! I have learnt ALOT from DP over the years and have decided to give back to the community! I have been setting up amazon e-stores for about two years now and thought its about time I help those starting out. If you follow these steps you should earn a profit. Instead of relying on SEO to start I use paid traffic, this lets me start earning money almost instantly! The traffic I use is paid traffic, Visitors will see your website pop under the website there on, this means you have to catch the visitors eye so that instead of them clicking that X on the top right they instead stay on your page and click your links! To do this your web site must look professional, no .info domain - no poor quality graphics - High quality only! Now I wont say what category/niche I picked for obvious reasons but when picking a niche always try to go for something that inspires urgency and need, and don't forget to check amazons "shakers & movers" to see what categories are hot. The next step is buy a domain and set up a nice looking amazon e-store using wordpress with all the correct plugins and add all the products with your affiliate link. If you can do on-page SEO this will help in the long term, remember and make this website eye catching and professional looking. If you can cloak your links as well that's even better but not important. Now that we have our e-store set up its time to send some traffic, I purchase 10,000 visits from USA only and I make sure the category is the same as the items I am selling in my e-store. Week 1 - cost = $11.57 -| Amazon = $2.63 | Adsense = $2.36 -| Loss = $4.58 Ok so week 1 I took a loss, no big deal its paid traffic after all and I have got some valuable data from this little test, checking AWstats I can see which pages/products are most popular, we rearrange our e-store to show the most popular products over the week on the front. I then reorder the 10,000 web visit package. Week 2 - cost = $11.57 -| Amazon = $4.23 | Adsense = $2.87 -| Loss = $4.47 I have still made a loss this week but look at the difference between sales, again I check my awstats to see what is most popular and make sure it is on the front page, I also add any new products that have been added to amazon that fall under my e-store's catgory. I reorder the 10,000 web visits. Week 3 - cost = $11.57 -| Amazon = $8.26 | Adsense = $3.32 -| Profit = $0.01 Finally profit! Sure its only $0.01 but with paid traffic all we need to do is scale it up and in theory the profits should raise! We check our stats again, making sure all popular products are on the front page and add any new products to our page. Reorder 10,000 web visits. Week 4 - cost = $11.57 -| Amazon = $11.92 | Adsense = $3.02 - Profit = $3.37 It has been one month and we have done what a lot of people fail to do, we have created a successful website using paid traffic. Whats next? The next step would be to buy a decent chunk of traffic (100k) and let it run for 30 days, during this time I would track whats popular and add any new products. Profit would be put towards SEO for long term success. Get more sales Here's a great little tip for amazon e-store owners, add a shopping card! If a visitor adds any product to your sites shopping cart there amazon affiliate cookie is installed for 90 DAYS! meaning if they buy anything within 90 days from amazon.com you earn commission! Got any questions feel free to pm me.
2 losing weeks, 1 break even week, and 1 week in profit, and you call that a success? what am i missing? if i can be completely honest with you man, you are doing it all wrong. setting up amazon e-stores and using paid traffic is not how you make money with amazon. the campaign above proves it lol.
What you are missing is the big picture, this is paid traffic, you almost always lose money to start with, the key is getting the conversion ratio, which is exactly what I achieved on the 3rd week and improved by the 4th. What you will see now is a steady increase in profit, followed by a huge increase once we had paid for SEO and added an amazon shopping cart that extends the surfers cookie length to 90 days. I have a handfull of amazon sites that constantly earn so when you say "setting up amazon e-stores and using paid traffic is not how you make money with amazon." I have to laugh to myself, please feel free to share your method of success. Week 4 ended yesterday, today I have set up the 100k package and set the length to 30 days, I'm expecting a nice profit at the end of this month which will pay for professional SEO.
True. Paid traffic entails testing and optimizing. But once you do that, you have profits flowing in consistently. Those who have been doing PPC would understand better. Paid traffic is a great alternative to SEO since once you have profits you can plough the same back in to gain further income.
some times, redesigning your template can increase your website rapidly some of my friends increase their traffics 10-25% after they redesign their template and don't forget the plugin if you use wordpress