Yes... One of my sites did over $21,000 in sales last month!!! Great in serps, indexed well, and making money! Of course I use a custom script and very little work once it is set.
A custom script for an aStore? Do you mean you have an aStore imbeded, on your own domain? If not, how do you run anything on an aStore if you are using it the way Amazon gives it to you? I don't want your script, (unless you are sharing ), but would you elaborate a little?
Doh, sorry.... I mistook, the commercial aStore store builder by Amazon for a generic eStore, ie., your own store.. I use a script made by Gtech and have heavily customized it and hand code the ID's one by one.. It is painstaking, but once set and promoted, I do nothing else to it... Sites seem to maintain about 45,000 or more indexed pages on average.... I would imagine with the right promotion the same could e done with aStore.. The problems I found though is according to Google, you see on astore, you have seen them all.. They do not seem to do well serps wise..
Whew! Ok, that makes sense. IMO of the original question...I don't see how an aStore could do well by itself. I don't think the intent of Amazon was, in creating aStores, was that they would be stand alone solutions, but that they would be a great integration tool for already existing blogs, and websites.(Or great to link to) I just don't see how an aStore alone, could do well, being that you can't control any of the SEO, unless you can somehow get a ton of links on it. You have to match it up with some good content to do anything with it, IMO.
I think the biggest problem with the aStore is they all look alike to an SE.. There is nothing unique to set them apart, and content appears to be duplicated.. As a result serps are low.
I suppose it does help to get more links pointing yo your a Stores, in whatever way you can do it. Did just below $7000.00 sales on my main AWS sites and just below $1050 from my aStores in December.
Sounds cool Mia, when you say did over $21,000 in sales last month, do you mean you profited 21 grand or thats the amount of sales worth?
The domain has nothing to do with it.. The sites still look similar to the SE's, in that their content does not look dynamic, because, well, it is not... The key to getting good amazon sales is having a lot of indexed pages in G and other SE's..
hey can you give me the details of the script you used for building ur a-store .. is it available on the internet for sale or you asked somebody to build one just for you ? and also can you show us your site ?
aStores can do well in the search engines for particular things. Make sure you put unique content on all your categories, do as much as you can. You can add a description for categories - take advantage of this. I believe you can also write custom descriptions for products - worth it for more popular products but not all! Take a look at this search result for "Wii Shop" and check out the top result: http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=wi...s=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a I have also seen astores come up in search results directly to product pages, so it is possible. All that being said, a fully integrated script will no doubt rank better.
I am using a custom made script Gtech built some time ago.. He does not distribute it because phpBay is where he spends more of his useful energies... I've managed to be very successful with it, and plan to freely distribute it at some point with my eBook on making money with Amazon stores.. With Wade's permission of course... Given it was never a commercial product, there is no support... I do of course build these sites for $450 a pop, from start to finish, with a unique look, content, and domain. I hope to have my eBook completed in a few weeks which details how I go about building these sites, how I promote them, and how easy it is to just let them make money with them without having to constantly screw with them. Once they are set, they are pretty much set.