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Amazon affiliate program advice (5)


03-04-2014 10:18 AM #1 roshea89 (Member)
Amazon affiliate program advice

Hey guys,

I have a few music based websites which I've set up with Amazon to link directly to band t-shirts and hoodies etc. In the sidebar for example i'd show 4 pictures of t-shirts each with a direct link to each t-shirt on amazon, if the user clicks, the cookie is set.

With one of the more popular sites I've actually set up an Amazon based store via FreshStoreBuilder, so i pull all the product data from Amazon and it's set up like a proper store. The cookie with amazon is only then set if the user checks out with any items from the store.

In a way i thought setting up a store would look more professional, maybe bring in more sales, or more items being bought at the same time, but then the amount of cookies being set i can see decreasing.

Any advice would be great on the best way to go. Would probably make more sense to go back to direct links, get more clicks and more cookies set. What do you guys think?


03-04-2014 12:44 PM #2 Finch (Moderator)

Looking at my own Amazon stats, the majority of sales are from products that I never promoted.

I'd recommend grabbing as many cookies as you can.


03-04-2014 01:21 PM #3 graham (Member)

I also one time thought that a store would be great, but in my case it wasn't sales decreased. As Finch said most sales are from other products.


03-04-2014 01:42 PM #4 roshea89 (Member)

Yeah, I've only had it live for a week and already clicks have dropped from the hundreds to under 50 or so. Lessoned learned here, will revert back to direct links, much easier to get users to click. Thanks for your advice Finch and Graham.


03-05-2014 01:33 AM #5 bradmcleod (Member)

I have fresh site builder also - makes a few $ a month

Here is the money tip >>>>

build one page daily with tips and links to Amazon product (20 min)
Sell that products and others
Look in Amazon and see other products being bought
next day make a page for that product
Rinse and repeat daily
If you find one page popular add more paid traffic
Stable Daily income coming your way


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