Read a lot and work a lot. Try not to be greedy and invest as much as you can in the projects that are really working.
Great tips and great earnings, its refreshing to see a solid work ethic on this forum. Most are looking for blackhat shortcuts or an easy way to earn from amazon.. which we know isn't possible. Are you focusing a lot on quality and good unique content? I bring it up as it is an area a lot of people skip, and then complain about Google updates knocking them out of the rankings.. in my opinion this is the key area - offer something of value to the web and you will get the search engine traffic. Good luck for 2013!
You can't make big money without trying many alternatives. I am focusing on different types of niches, websites, content and most important SEO Also working on alternative traffic sources lately. As I mentioned in a previous post, I am interested to build a group of people who are very serious in making money with AMAZON for exchanging ideas, improving our serps and other similar things. Please PM if you are interested.
How to make your backlinking ( Please keep in mind this strategy is for 3 main keywords) PART 1: Tier 1 1. Create 8-10 web 2.0 properties Examples: blogger, wordpress, weebly, jimdo, newsvine, yola, tumblr, livejournal, blog.com, cabanova 2. Write 3-4 articles for each ( for the beginning)- 450 words+, unique and readable. Put a related Youtube video and at least 1 photo with a contextual "alt tag" 3. Post them ( without links to your websites) 4. Wait another 2-3 days until the pages are indexed and put 1 link to your website and another 1 to a related high-authority website ( but not competitors ) - Wikipedia is fine) 5. Use your keywords ( contextual) in 30% of the cases, money making keywords- 50%, 20%-generic terms, nakes URLs 6. Add at least 2 articles/property/month 7. After 2 weeks start adding social signs ( but not much ) - Google + , Delicious, Stumbles, Twitter ( 10-20 is fine)- Use you money making keyword in 20% of the cases and contextual keywords in rest. What I mean by contextual keyword: If your money making keyword is : Cheap convertible car seats Your contextual keyword will be: Infant car seats with cheap prices Obs1: Once you reach first page, in the next links you will create, you can decrease the % of the money making keyword and increase the % for contextual keywords Obs2: This is what it worked for me and even if it's costly, believe me it worths. Obs3: This strategy has Tier 2 &3 as well but I will post them at a later stage ( or maybe in the E-book I will prepare)
You don't need external links if internal links on your site are good. Just make sure home page has good pr and then flow this pr into internal pages through proper internal linking. Bring more pages into google's main index.
How to make your baclinking strategy: PART 2: Tier 2 If Tier 1 backlinks are important because those are the once which are linked directly to your money website, TIER 2 is what gives them strength. Without Tier 2, the web 2.0 properties would be just another blogs with no power and just a few pages of content. What I am using for Tier 2: a) High PR Blog Comments with low OBL: There is a very good service on other forums. Use the search box and I am sure you will find it. This is the first STEP I do, 1000 BL, 100-120 to each web 2.0 property is cool. b) SAPE Links: Ok, many of you will say those will stop working. Maybe. I don't think so but let's consider they will stop working. What can happen? You will simply remove them and this is it. Your money making project is still there since the SAPE backlinks are pointing to web 2.0 properties. Until these will be banned or their power full be decreased by Google, the momentul they create is fantastic. They are not cheap but for low competing keyword, you don't need a big package, a custom one with very good backlinks is enough. Don't spend more than 30$ on this. I am doing this together with the High PR Blog comment. c) Wikis: Safe and good for STEP 2. 2000 Wikis, 200 for each web 2.0 property is done after 4-5 weeks. d) SENuke fiverr service: I know there are many shitty gigs but there is one which works fine for me. Many people are using it in Tier 3, but I had good results by having it in Tier 2. There are many other things you can add in Tier 2, but this is all I do. PART 3: Tier 3 Many are saying, put all your spamm shit here. I agree and don't agree. I am putting here a) 20.000 Blog Comments b) 20.000 Forum Profiles once every 3 months. REMEMBER: This is what worked for me. I will add more details about the Backlinking strategy and a case study in the next E-book I will write.
Great stats and earnings but the big question that no one seems to be asking.... how much did that $4,000+ cost you? As in, without going into detail, what are your monthly expenses for that?
What is your total monthly visitors amount? I see about 30k redirected to amazon from your web properties, is it about 300k?