Over on the Amazon forums theres people talking about Amazon-Germany has put a "cap" on electronics. They also are talking about the % has been dropped for all Amazon's sites affiliates. Is the end near? I have been watching my account and I show a balance of $0 even though I earned over $40 last month. Anyone else notice this?
I was making $40 a month.. well only promoted it for 2 months and for both I made over $40 each month.
ZuraX, last month was in a different quarter. Are you sure you are looking at the correct timespan? If you earned $40 last month but nothing so far this month then the default report (quarter to date) will show nothing. fryman, I make decent money with Amazon. Low volume but high priced products. Mostly people emailing me looking for advice on certain products to purchase. Then I send them back an email with my links.
many are making thousands a month .. the trick is to get google to index and KEEP your pages indexed. if you can do that ... you can get 5-15,000 unique visitors a day. you also need more than 5 sites. currently, google is wiping me out. but i guess they view me as a thin affliate ... so i gotta bust out the pages of content now
Amazon can earn decent returns with the right niche. On my site, it runs third behind Blogads and Adsense, but I still get a couple of hundred dollars a month.
Yes, Amazon is dead, eveyone give up... get outa my way / loving the $,$$$ it's had it's time, SEO'ing thin affilliates no longer works, um, what to do?
I click on My account then past payments... Theres a list of all earnings from previous months. I have had this account for years. I have a few months where I made $2 or so. They are listed, the $43 I made 2 quaters ago is listed. They tried to send that one via direct deposit even though I have check picked. They finally sent me a check. Last quarter I made $6 and its not listed. Total owed says $0.00. Yes I made a mistake in the post above. Been promoting it for 2 quarters, not months. Made over $40 each quarter. If I goto the reports and list earnings from 2000 to now it shows I have made over $100.
Amazon has never been a fantastic program IMO. I think the best quarter I ever had with them was around $1,500. Certainly not enough to live off of, and not enough to keep messing with it.
I only started to promote it because after months of not looking at my stats I logged in and had sales. No idea where they was coming from so I started linking to products and running 3 sites with My Amazon Store Manager.
It's now been made public that Google calls all affiliate only sites, like datafeed and AWS sites, SPAM. Back in 1993 I made $13,000 in two quarters, and now I'm crashed down to about $1,000 a quarter. Since the last Google update I've gone from having over 1,000,000 AWS URLs indexed to now having a measly 16,500 AWS URLs indexed.
Amazon would not have a End till a few years i guess. Few reasons for this: Amazon Web Based sites are getting popular day by day and hot in the market. Around 30 % people have purchased amazon sites over the last month. And they are earning income and getting those products sold and so.
$3-5K last 2 quarters ... no PPC. this quarter? well jagger and the yahoo update are putting the hurt on.