Comments on: Amazon Affiliate Lesson #2: The Best Amazon Affiliate Links

By: El Plumber (admin)

El Plumber (admin) — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 21:17:58 +0000

Allan, I hate to tell you this, but that website it pretty terrible. Amazon Associates is no scam, BUT whomever you paid for that website may very well have scammed you if you paid more than $10 for that. Go read these lessons again. Are you providing any value to your users reading your site? Why would anyone click through to Amazon and buy anything from that site? Would you?

You have visitors and traffic but FROM WHERE? How did they get to your site? Are they interested in shopping? Are they interested in jewelery? Or is the “traffic” provided by the people that sold you the website? That site looks suspiciously like something from these guys and if so you should work very very hard starting right now to get your money back: http://electronplumber.com/is-the-online-hosting-network-a-scam/

By: Allan Taylor

Allan Taylor — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 14:35:32 +0000

Hi El Plumber
I have been trying Amazon Associates advertizing for 2 months on a new website with very disappointing results, to the extent that I am wondering whether they operate a scam.
The website is to do with jewelry, sale of books & the Amazon line of jewelry.
This February gave 1150 visitors (from home page counter, total now is 2850) but only 50 clicks are recorded and no sales. My guess is that 1000 visitors would on average give 1000 clicks????
Why only 50? I have tested out the Amazon analysis by using a friends computer and clicking thru to the final page on an Amazon adv, say 20 times, diff adverts, and NOTHING is recorded in my Amazon analysis page. Also, I note that it is Amazon policy that Affiliate members are not allowed to buy stuff on their own account ….. if they did then they could check up to see whether Amazon had recorded the sale, or operated a scam. I would be interested to hear your comments . Also I will study your website advice in more detail. I live in Adelaide, Australia.
Cheers, Allano
Allan Taylor

By: Vladimir

Vladimir — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 17:36:16 +0000

Basically,WordPress sites with various plugins developed for Amazon affiliates are not effective ? Because all of them are pulling reviews from amazon pages, pictures and descriptions too, widgets are also main selling point of those plugins… I must try with links in text, because right now with a lot of visits and enough content on site I have awful conversions, not worth my time.

By: Justin

Justin — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 08:05:53 +0000

I also just stumbled onto your site here. Link referrals had not occurred to me before, but you’re right, they do add a personal appeal and touch that is lacking with the widgets. Thanks for the advice.

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 23:51:38 +0000

Hey.

So glad I stumbled upon your site. Great info. Will bookmark without a doubt (and this is my 2nd comment already, lol).

Anyways.. do you mind having a quick look through my affiliate site? I currently have 3 product posts that I want traffic to. The cuisinart, gaggia classic and samsung 4287. Let me know your honest opinion (but only if you have time of course).

By: El Plumber (admin)

El Plumber (admin) — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 12:29:27 +0000

Tanaka, I’m guessing that once you do a certain amount of affiliate business with Amazon, they’ll make as many id tags as you want. They probably asked for a hundred thousand tags and Amazon generated and tied them to their account.

By: Tanaka

Tanaka — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 02:54:48 +0000

Thanks you for help.As you said amazon only generate 1500 affiliate tags.But in the matome.naver.jp.They can insert alot of number to affiliate tags. This number use to identify who is posted this article.
Amazon pay money for matome.naver.jp . Then matome.naver.jp pay 3.5% this money for article posted user.

By: El Plumber (admin)

El Plumber (admin) — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 13:46:21 +0000

You can’t put anything custom in your tag like a post id. It has
To appear exactly as you get it from Amazon.

Like I said in the article, some people have reported you can call Amazon and they’ll generate you 1500 affiliate tags to use for tracking purposes but you have to use what they give you.

By: Tanaka

Tanaka — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 12:08:31 +0000

I dont know part “navermatome-92531-22″.The number “92531″ is post id. How to they can put it to tag.Please help me!

By: Josh

Josh — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 02:09:56 +0000

Hi there, please critique my website! I’ve been working on it for the past 3 weeks now. I am getting few clickthroughs, and have yet to convert any traffic.. I’m wondering what the biggest turn-off for these visitors would be.

Http://longboardreviews.org

Any input would be greatly appreciated.. thank you!