If you wanted to be some sort of sales affiliate for amazon,& wanted to use alot of informative written content for the products as a base ,what would be the best way of going about it with regards to as little cost as possible,& the best method,eg blog tool,such as wordpress,or even amazon itself???? cheers for any help given.
Judging by people's experience, this seems to be a good way of going about it. There are WAY too many sites out there just taking the Amazon data and using it as-is, with the result that there is a LOT of duplicate content. Just pick a short sentence from any Amazon product description and try a Google search (in quotes). It typically tosses up a good 3500 sites with the same text on! So a blog, probably using self-hosted WordPress, which focuses on a niche and writes about individual products from that niche on a frequent basis probably has a good chance of developing decent long-tail traffic over time. I keep meaning to do it, but it's time... TIME...! So I just rehash the Amazon web service, like everyone else
i inclined to agree , no matter how many pages of Amazon generated content I get indexed, it doesn't yield much traffic
I just was assisting a fellow in regards to duplicate content and Amazon stores. Take a look at my article Search Engine Optimization for Amazon Web Services. It'll debunk the myth about the dup content. Just an fyi to the gentleman that wants to use content to help sell items. Its a great thing to add value to your site by adding lots of content, and yes you can make sales. However, the best tool for the job in this case is a retail site. I mean I could make a hole with a spoon or a shovel, but I'd rather use the tool that will make my job easier. Amazon didn't become what it is today because it wrote great content, its where its at today because it did retail well, and so does the other top 500 retailers. Matter of fact, I think it'd be hard to find a major retailer that did great based on its content. I'm not saying that there aren't exceptions (look at gizmodo(1 out of every million blogs will be this lucky)), or that you can't make sales with a blog, but the truth is, at best you may get a one time sale, when what you really need is repeat shoppers (not blog readers), to help you grow. Yes, I'm a little biased because of the work that I do, but the information I gave is genuine and based from my own experiences. Good luck with your new sales campaign. Happy Selling!, PuReWebDev
Are you the Chap who started the $500/month on Amazon thread ? Is that what you mean by debunking the myth about dup content ? And as a matter of interest, how many online stores do you run ? How many pages do you have indexed on Google agreggated over all your amazon stores ?
Yes, I did start that thread. The article basically discusses what you can do to avoid getting placed into the supplemental index because of duplicate content. I have about 15 stores of my own. Because I'm a service provider, I actually help run several hundred stores, but I've been too busy with client sites to focus on my own personal sites at the moment. The key is definitely to brand and market the site, not let it sit idle, so numbers don't typically mean much in regards to the number of stores you have, because you could have 300 stores sitting idle, not branded and not marketed, sitting useless, or you can have one or two sites, that are good looking, and marketed, and they'll do well. I haven't bothered to count my total indexed pages, it'd be well into the millions. thanks, PuReWebDev