I am just checking the legality and agreement with TOS of doing this. I could not find anything with regards to this in the Amazon Associates help section, though I managed to confirm that Google Adwords allows affiliate advertising. e.g. a link to a product, where I pay for the ads. edit: Sorry I spelt Amazon wrong. That's a good way to start my posting career.
FofR, this is not a problem -- lots of Amazon Associates bid on AdWords to promote Amazon products. Gene Kavner, Former World-Wide Director of Amazon Associates, 2005-2006 http://Blog.AffiliateBrand.com
If you are using your Amazon Associates id as part of the link, it'll be obvious to Amazon that it's an associate link. Good luck! Gene Kavner, Former World-Wide Director of Amazon Associates, 2005-2006 http://Blog.AffiliateBrand.com
You used to have to speficy it was an Affiliate link but Google changed the rules, now they only display one Ad per search to any domain name. If you and someone else are both sending someone directly to Amazon, you will be competiting for the Ad. Google will only show one Ad pointing to Amazon per search.
aStores are nasty, they look so unprofessional, i would just create a really basic site that looks half decent instead. Also, in reference to the amazon links in adwords, you would have to put the display url as www.amazon.com, so you would be directly competing with amazons adwords campains, i dont think that they will like that very much. but worth a try
You get 4+ % per sale depending on the type of product you sell and the total number of products you sold for the period BTW: Out of 100 visitors I sent to my astore from AdWords exactly 0 made a purchase... go figure
My aStore is doing very well. It has to match the content of your site and offer readers products that closely match their interests. My aStore offers readers additional products on the topic of affiliate marketing, search engine optimization, and working with Google, all of which are topics of my blog. You can take a look at my aStore in two ways: 1. As a blog post. 2. As a stand-alone store on Amazon.com. Let me know if you have any questions!
Maybe your not targeting good keywords or need to tweak your ad. I've had great luck sending visitors and getting conversions for sending people directly to my aStore. I know they don't look good, but I have 3 stores that seem to be converting just fine. However, it does take some trial and error to see what works best.
I created my aStore as an iframe on my own domain and targetted specifically to poker players and related gifts. I use google adwords for most of the traffic and while poker related keywords aren't the cheapest I've gotten about a 25% conversion rate. I am guessing that will drop off substantially after the holidays so I'll have to find a less expense way to promote the site but for the time being it's making a little money anyway. And yes, it's not pretty but it's working... you can check it out here if you would like. http://www.pokergiftideas.com
Yeah the Amazonian King that makes over $100,000 a year in Amazon uses that technique very effectively. The key is the ads and the landing pages.
Just do not use the word "Amazon" as an advertising keyword for your site, else you'll get this email: Greetings from the Associates Program. We recently noticed your Associate links are appearing as sponsored links on search engines under the term amazon and variations of this term. Please note, per the Operating Agreement: 4. Referral Fees In addition, you may not: Â… (i) seek to purchase or register any keywords, search terms or other identifiers that include the word "amazon" or variations thereof (for example "ammazon", "amaozn", etc.) ("Proprietary Terms") for use in any search engine, portal, sponsored advertising service or other search or referral service. From time to time we may request that you cause any applicable Web search provider to exclude Proprietary Terms from keywords used to display your advertising content in association with search results, assuming the provider of such Web search engine offers such exclusion capabilities. If we determine, in our sole discretion, that you have engaged in any of the foregoing activities or, as the case may be, refused promptly to comply with a request from us to exclude Proprietary Terms from any keyword as mentioned above, we may (without limiting any other rights or remedies available to us) withhold any referral fees otherwise payable to you under this Agreement and/or terminate this Agreement. In an effort to protect our trademark, we request that Associates refrain from this activity and will be enforcing this policy. Please note that some sponsored advertising services allow advertisers to indicate that their ads should surface when the user's search is somewhat related to specified keywords; for example, an ad placed against the keyword "books" would surface in a search for "Amazon books. To prevent your links from appearing as a sponsored link, we also ask that you take preventative measures, such as adding amazon and/or amazon.com to your negative keywords. Thank you for your prompt attention to this matter and your cooperation. Please do not hesitate to contact us should you have any questions or concerns. Best regards, Amazon.com Account Specialist Associates Program http://www.amazon.com =============================