I have been thinking of testing out Amazon associates and I figured I would try to make some micro niche sites built around a product/s as the best way to sell the Amazon products. But I wanted to know if anyone on here has had any success with Amazon associates in particular with creating niche product sites?
I had Amazon adverts on my website but didnt make any money from it over 6 months. I just stick to Adsense now which bring me about £200 a year, not a lot I know but it pays for my website fees.
I am trying to sell some amazon products in very long tail niche have to say not with much of success, conversion rate is very low.
For someone who is trying this and getting traffic but low conversion rate, either the site needs redesign, or perhaps the internet marketer should focus on keywords with a higher commercial intent factor.
Yes. Amazon ads are not context sensitive, so there is no conflict with Google. However, most affiliate marketing experts recommend not putting up AdSense ads until you have tried and failed to make a go of it as an affiliate site. To start, use only text links to Amazon and have nothing else on the page for a visitor to click.
Niche marketing can be very profitable. I have had some success, but at the rate I am going the potential for earnings is limitless. All it really takes is research, time, and a small investment in hosting/domain name purchasing. I would highly recommend using Market Samurai as a research tool (and not just because I am an affiliate). It is the single most important part of my research phase. Research can - and should - be a painstaking process. Know where the competition is (hence Market Samurai) and who you have to beat to get onto the first page of Google. If you are not on the first page for a niche or micro-niche keyword than you probably won't be having much success. Target a few related keywords within your niche to increase your chances of success. Once the research is done you have hopefully limited your potential for failure by weeding out the highly competitive, low yielding, keywords. The next phase is the web building phase. You need to ensure that titles, headings, and content are fully optimized for the relevant keywords of your niche. If you are running a blog, make sure to keep it updated with focused niche articles. If you are running a site, make sure you work on creating backlinks (and networks of backlinks). Just make sure the backlinks are from sites that are somewhat relevant to your niche. Best of luck! Don't give up, keep at it and ALWAYS keep learning whenever you have the chance.
Promoting niche product sites is a good idea be it with Amazon or otherwise. Consider; is the niche big enough to support you? Creating a whole website about "red double handled coffee mugs" would be too specific, and therefore never return on your effort. Do your research with market samurai or your chosen tool Make a great site. The most important thing... add great, accurate content that is genuinely useful to people. Otherwise, why would anyone want to visit your site?
The danger here is that Amazon sells adult products like sex toys, mature dvds, and other such items that Google disapproves. Google will send you an email when they discover adult content from Amazon on the same page as adsense; so unless you can control the Amazon products, I would not recommend risking your adsense account.
It is very easy to put specific Amazon products on a page. I doubt very much whether it is even possible to accidentally have Amazon post adult products without your knowledge.
Success in niche markets depends upon many factors, the main ones obviously being whether you picked the right market or not (saturated or not). A lot of people make the mistake of choosing electronic items, which has a huge lot of competition. It's better to tap into something like leather boots or toddler toys where there is not much competition.
Of course it works, I have been living off it for almost a year now Just pick the right niche and get traffic, it is very easy to sell with Amazon.
Certain categories have limitations also. Amazon.com used to have a 4% max commission on electrical items. Amazon.co.uk has a £7 cap on any single item, so its not worth pushing very expensive items.