well I have an amazon astore embedded in my website (netbook-central.com/index.php/netbook-store) and used the $50 facebook ad credit i got from godaddy to drive some eyeballs to my store to see what happened. At the end of my campaign I have 200 views and no sales. I was hoping to have at least a 1% conversion rate which seemed reasonable from facebook ads but was wondering what everyone's else experience was with astores and using ads to drive sales?
aStores are notoriously poor for converting to sales. I have a couple in my sites, but I know I don`t do very well out of them.
i have my limit of 100 astores and have yet to make a sale on any of them i have links that go to each other from one astore to another but dont know if it helps in the search engines i guess it dont i also used adwords facebook and adbrite but so far i only spent money and not made any thing.
actually I have an update yesterday I finally got my first sale through Amazon. It wasn't through the astore though but just a product link in a review I wrote. I've always heard this is the highest converter maybe they're right? If it keeps up like this I might just close the astore section and focus on more reviews with more product links- time will tell
I'm surprised the astores don't convert better once a visitor makes it to the site. It makes sense though, because of their limitations and difficulties getting them indexed in the first place. thnx, PuReWebDev
I think what did it was that I put a logo at the bottom that has a credit card symbol and an amazon guarantee thing. This makes it look more like a real store and people feel more comfortable using it.
You need to integrate your astores into sites. I did that with some of my aStores and it was getting a lot of action. It also helps to get your astore indexed. I built my astore about 4 months ago and have 23 pages indexed for specific products. I credit building a page for it on my site (see my sig for more details).