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Who's Using Omakase?

Discussion in 'Amazon' started by Claymation, Jul 31, 2006.

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    Is anyone hooked up with this yet?
    If so- any thoughts on converting?
     
    Claymation, Jul 31, 2006 IP
  2. jamcon

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    I'd be interested to know this, too. Are the ads as contextually sensetive and accurate as something like Adsense. I would think that Adsense would be the more profitable of the two because Adsense is pay-per-click whereas Omakase is pay-per-action.
     
    jamcon, Aug 3, 2006 IP
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    I just started using it along with my adsense
    Two days after I started the ads are still not relevant?? So I'm not sure what to do. I doubt I missed any sales since my traffic is low, but I would like to see relative ads pretty soon.
     
    guy123, Aug 4, 2006 IP
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    I haven't used it but even though it's contextual it can be used along with Adsense:

     
    danielbruzual, Aug 4, 2006 IP
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    Another post says you can not mix:

    Check with Google to make sure.
     
    TooHappy, Aug 9, 2006 IP
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    I've been getting a fairly good click rate with these on www. wolfmother.net - at least, more clicks that the Adsense banner that was there previously.

    But as yet, no sales ... so I guess time will tell.

    As for relevance, the products shown are almost always great on my site. Plenty of Wolfmother music and similar genres usually.

    [edit] maybe I take that back - really odd, actually. My site has a forum, and on that, one of hte last things I posted about was having read a Douglas Coupland book, and an Irvine Welsh book. Now, almost all products shown on the entire site are for Douglas Coupland and Irvine Welsh!! Does anyone have a fricking clue how Amazon's formula works? Is it page specific, or does it somehow use stored data, caches, etc?
     
    chimaera, Aug 11, 2006 IP
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    That's the opposite to what they told me when I asked them about it several months ago.....
     
    blacknight, Aug 13, 2006 IP
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    the adsense support team works in mysterious ways, they have different answers for the same questions.
     
    danielbruzual, Aug 13, 2006 IP
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    Which is nuts!

    You'd think that they'd be capable of giving a consistent reply
     
    blacknight, Aug 13, 2006 IP
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    I rotate adsense and omakese. Omakese hasn't done anything for me so far (the recommended books sectiont hat i manually update works much better). As for as adsense and omakese I think I'll best not put them in the same page. I wish omakese was a little better...I might have considered using it more than adsense since books work quite well with my audience...
     
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    I don't know if it's coincidence ... but my CTR for adsense has dropped since I put omakese on my site. I guess users are clicking the amazon ads rather than the adsense ads ... but it's not bringing me any revenue!
     
    chimaera, Aug 13, 2006 IP
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    Of those of you not seeing increase in revenue for Omakase compared to adsense. Is the traffic / clicks of a high enough number to be statistically significant?
     
    jazzylee77, Aug 14, 2006 IP
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    misinfo was here
     
    jazzylee77, Aug 14, 2006 IP
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    The number of clicks for omakese+adsense is slightly higher for me (20% perhaps), but of course the omakese clicks aren't converting into $$$, so I'm losing out ...

    I'll give it a bit longer, but otherwise I'll be changing back to just adsense!
     
    chimaera, Aug 14, 2006 IP
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    Why don't you just use the Omakase ads as a default for your Adsense one's. That way you shouldn't lose out even if they don't convert.
     
    Crusader, Oct 1, 2006 IP
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