I haven't had much luck in making any sales through the amazon astore! Does anyone have any suggestions on how to make some sales? Or how/where to promote it?
In all honesty I don't recommend using an aStore, and not many people here on the forum would. They are difficult to promote as they don't offer any unique value, so don't perform in the search engines (there are some exceptions to this but they are more lucky than anything). Build a good quality site instead and concentrate on content, instead of promotion.
Now astore can't index on google. I think you make a blog is good than use astore or you may fill astore in your blog.
BrightFlower - The success of your AStore depends on the amount of traffic you are getting. Unless you are getting over 100,000 views a month, you probably won't have "success" with Amazon Products. Darren of ProBlogger said he only makes about $60,000 a year from Amazon affiliate products. Sure, that is a lot more than most people are making, but think about the enormous amounts of traffic the ProBlogger Network gets. Keep building your website around the AStore so the Website can get ranked in Google. From there you can point people to your AStore to make conversions.
I have never really tried ranking a Astore always taught it will be hard to done cause its directly at amazon and google really doesn't like affiliate sites. What I been doing is building small quality stores full of uniqe content and give the visitors something to read and at same time google sees I have a lot of uniqe content and I have seen my rankings and sales go up with amazon. I would recommend looking into fresh store builder. They do have a 30 day trial so really no risk.