Review site and Amazon Affliate (9)
I have a site in the golf niche and doing reviews on golf products. I've been doing PPC for the review and getting paid with Amazon Affiliate. Its been doing "aight" nothing spectacular. I heard and read of folks making a killing doing this. Anyone doing this and willing to share ideas..or should I abandon this strategy.
Much appreciated!
This may sound obvious...but why don't you just buy more traffic if it's doing "aight". Treat it like a campaign and split test and scale.
Be very interested to see your results here.
I have several Amazon aff sites that are doing ok with organic traffic but have been wanting to look at sending some paid traffic to them to scale them up.
I know you said that some are making this work out there but does anyone have any examples at all?
Would really appreciate it.
Thanks
@obas818 - what's limiting your ability to scale? Is it the number of products, the number of interested customers you can find on PPC, or something else?
I'm using bing ads. I increase my bids but getting few conversions. I'm getting .20 per click even .08 on some...but maybe I getting what I paid for.
It might be the keywords I'm using or maybe bing ads? I review high ticket golf equipment in the $150- $300 range, so just need a few sales..atleast thats the thought. So I think the limitation is PPC...should I try a different PPC (FB,Adsense or something else)?
Split test is a great idea...Going to start that today..Pretty obvious but overlooked it 
I was thinking my high ticket items strategy was flawed but did well doing Christmas...so I think I got fooled a bit. After Christmas...everything stopped.
So if I stick with Amazon..need to review small ticket items...After being on the forum for a few days..I'm thinking I need to abandon the Golf niche stuff all together and do POF.
Thanks
Amazon can be done using cpc search without a lot of effort actually.
However, amazon payment terms = suck.
- Several specific high ticket items ($400-$1200) converted very well.
- New and gotta-have items up to $100 converted very well.
- Targeting low cpc keywords for items that are in a niche that often has the buyer fill up their carts with related stuff (e.g. books, baby items)
- Targeting weirdos and dirty people. (Get them over to specific sub categories in the health and personal care category and see them check out dildos, buttplugs, fake tits and rubber asses/pussies)
Get a cart on your site and have them place an item in it to set a 90(?) day cookie. They still have to have the item in cart and also buy it. E.g. they placed a mobile phone case in their cart and didn't check out. They return to amazon after 18 days to buy a new TV and a pink dildo, check out and you'll be paid for TV, dildo and phone case.
Physical products, software downloads and kindle e-books just seem to convert very easily so the 24hr cookie life wasn't an issue for me.
Tracking is horrible and I suspect they keep it like that in purpose.
Amazon can be harsh though. I never received my last $10k cheque because they banned me. Adwords banned me first though.. that adwords ban saved me from sending traffic for weeks to amazon.
I ran it without problems for 2 years.
Adwords traffic was the best. Bing was actually OK but the volume just wasn't there.
Good stuff
@h0mp Did you build amazon around niche? In other words did you have a phone case niche site and with amazon links to phone cases only. Or did you did you have a site with various amazon links to some of the products you discussed? So on my niche site about toothpaste, I could have links to business ebooks. I'm assuming you did both?
I tried google for PPC, but I swear they were click happy..but amazon does really tell you much about conversion..so for all I knew every google click was a conversion...I only wish..
Yes, both.
The only way to do some tracking is to create new IDs in amazon for each campaign or ad.
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