When people promote it on their sites. I mean they are a huge, reputable, trusted name in the business. I would have thought people would click through from various sites and buy products. Yet it seems everyone reports dissapointing results with them.
Depends on your niche, I developed a fan club site for a client and she just got her second fat check a few days ago.
Actually nix part of what i said.......Amazon stores do quite well, but just plain old amazon ads on your site do horrible.
That's the point, her main site is about a celebrity and it has scaterd simple Amazon ads in different formats accordingly, but she is not running a store.
The real question is, why would anyone go to Amazon from your site when it is such a big, reliable, easily remembered name? You are after an impulse buyer, really.
Product-related sites work best, of course. Deep-linking with previews is the best way to go. Amazon ads in the sidebar work if they are related to content.
I implemented their Amazon E-Commerce Service (ECS) nicely all over my web site: all displayed books were relevant, but I couldn't see a single click in my profile -let alone any sale I will never use them. They used to tax my pages loading and I was getting nothing out of them
One issue is that it's not geo-targeted. This is all nice and dandy if you are from the US and your audience is too, but if either of those isn't, it's not a good fit.
I get a reasonable amount of clicks. Just no buys as yet. Actually they are probably just stealing AdSense clicks from me so perhaps I should just remove them! My site is semi related to photography if you get my drift so i figured amazon adverts for digital cameras might do alright. No such luck!
Just like anything else, it matters what your niche is and how you place your ads. I've regularly earned $XXX-$XXXX per mont with 500-1,000 uniques per day. This has been accomplished with aStore only.
well, amazon not working my site wither. getting click but no sell umm will see few more days. then might replace adsense.
amazon is starting to work for me. im mainly using astores and text links. but so far ive earnt 58 euros at amazon.de and £65.32 at amazon uk and all in short space. one of my astores is ranked 2nd in google uk for the term and product im targeting. it was a test to see if they do actually convert. and from what ive seen so far. it does work. and im going to build on what ive done so far and create mroe and mroe astores. afterall its free to set up lol
I think there is one reason for it... Amazon's shipping is really slow. That's about the only thing I don't like. Especially when they email me 6 weeks from purchase date to tell me sorry we tried hard - couldn't find this item to ship it.
I have a few astores after 3 months and no sales i was about to give up on them but two of them have now started generating sales. Think it's trial and error if you set a few up some will be successful others wont.
Have you read a report by James Simpson? He says he making a profit from amazon easily. I've finished reading it and the strategy he laid out is quite simple and by just following market trends. Even writing the ad for his Adword campaign is straight forward. I not sure if it 's going to work, but I'm going to try his strategy... P.S. I've wrote a review on my blog about the report.
yeh im keen to learn more with amazon as mine is starting to convert now. i mean last night i even had a sale of £340 lol so not sure how much ill get from that. but hey it works