Yakezie.com - Topic: Experience with Amazon as an affiliate https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/experience-with-amazon-as-an-affiliate/ Simple:Press Version 4.5.1 Untemplater on Experience with Amazon as an affiliate https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/experience-with-amazon-as-an-affiliate/page-2/#p98628 Bloggers Lair https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/experience-with-amazon-as-an-affiliate/page-2/#p98628 NomadWallet said:

Untemplater said:

You can also restrict the type of Adsense ads your blocks display to help reduce the lower quality ones. For example you can block weight loss ads.

That's a good tip. Thanks! I didn't know that. :)

Yeah it's a great feature. You can also look and see which ad categories you're earning the most from and block the rest.

]]> Sat, 01 Feb 2014 11:59:07 +0000 NomadWallet on Experience with Amazon as an affiliate https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/experience-with-amazon-as-an-affiliate/#p98617 Bloggers Lair https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/experience-with-amazon-as-an-affiliate/#p98617 Untemplater said:

You can also restrict the type of Adsense ads your blocks display to help reduce the lower quality ones. For example you can block weight loss ads.

That's a good tip. Thanks! I didn't know that. :)

]]> Fri, 31 Jan 2014 12:50:44 +0000 Untemplater on Experience with Amazon as an affiliate https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/experience-with-amazon-as-an-affiliate/#p98605 Bloggers Lair https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/experience-with-amazon-as-an-affiliate/#p98605 You can also restrict the type of Adsense ads your blocks display to help reduce the lower quality ones. For example you can block weight loss ads.

]]> Thu, 30 Jan 2014 21:49:05 +0000 NomadWallet on Experience with Amazon as an affiliate https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/experience-with-amazon-as-an-affiliate/#p98575 Bloggers Lair https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/experience-with-amazon-as-an-affiliate/#p98575 This couldn't have come at a better time. I'm registered with Amazon, but haven't put much effort into it. I've heard text and image links are best, though, compared to the more gimmicky banners/aStore/etc. I'm planning to cut down on Adsense ads because they can seem spammy and putting more effort into my affiliate programs.

]]> Wed, 29 Jan 2014 19:48:04 +0000 Untemplater on Experience with Amazon as an affiliate https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/experience-with-amazon-as-an-affiliate/#p98545 Bloggers Lair https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/experience-with-amazon-as-an-affiliate/#p98545 My amazon performance has been slow so I swapped out one of my Amazon banner ads with Google adsense, which is working out a lot better.

]]> Tue, 28 Jan 2014 21:31:34 +0000 Khaleef @ KNS Financial on Experience with Amazon as an affiliate https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/experience-with-amazon-as-an-affiliate/#p98528 Bloggers Lair https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/experience-with-amazon-as-an-affiliate/#p98528 Amazon has been a terrible performer for me! I average about $5 a month right now, and I'm looking for ways to increase this. I don't think many of my posts on my main site are written well for affiliate programs, so I can't really blame Amazon as much as my own content.

]]> Tue, 28 Jan 2014 09:41:22 +0000 Eve of Reduction on Experience with Amazon as an affiliate https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/experience-with-amazon-as-an-affiliate/#p98366 Bloggers Lair https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/experience-with-amazon-as-an-affiliate/#p98366 I've made some money with Amazon affiliates. Right now I'm working on a new ebook and plan to use Amazon Affiliate links throughout the ebook. That way I can make more $ off my ebook. I do a lot of upcycling furniture and thrifty DIYprojects so it make sense for me to point reader in the direction of supplies they'll need.

Hope this helps.

]]> Tue, 21 Jan 2014 06:20:14 +0000 moneystepper on Experience with Amazon as an affiliate https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/experience-with-amazon-as-an-affiliate/#p98324 Bloggers Lair https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/experience-with-amazon-as-an-affiliate/#p98324 I haven't pushed the Amazon adverts too hard but I've always found it to be one of the worst performing affiliate programs on moneystepper.

]]> Sun, 19 Jan 2014 12:50:58 +0000 allaboutinterest on Experience with Amazon as an affiliate https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/experience-with-amazon-as-an-affiliate/#p98321 Bloggers Lair https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/experience-with-amazon-as-an-affiliate/#p98321 I'm having trouble inserting amazon ads into a blogger post, they either won't appear or look funny.  I don't have a problem putting them on the side bar of my main page though.   If any of you are using blogger I'd appreciate some help.  It looks like there used to be a way to link Amazon associates to blogger but the link keeps returning an error now. 

]]> Sun, 19 Jan 2014 07:21:49 +0000 FamilyMoneyValues on Experience with Amazon as an affiliate https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/experience-with-amazon-as-an-affiliate/#p98288 Bloggers Lair https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/experience-with-amazon-as-an-affiliate/#p98288 I had pretty good luck with Amazon, especially during the Christmas season, until our wonderful governor decided to expand the sales tax arena and force Amazon to eliminate everyone in my state as an associate.

 

I used it on all of my book reviews (which I tend to do a lot) and game reviews.  I loved that you could pick a specific product, and that when the  user clicked through you got credit for whatever they bought, not just for the product you promoted.

 

I was very sorry to be eliminated from the program and am still looking for a good alternative.  So, if you know of a similar one, let me know please.  I've tried several but can't find one that lets me pick and choose a product.

]]> Fri, 17 Jan 2014 14:09:40 +0000 Untemplater on Experience with Amazon as an affiliate https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/experience-with-amazon-as-an-affiliate/#p98280 Bloggers Lair https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/experience-with-amazon-as-an-affiliate/#p98280 Yeah as tempting as it is to click on your own links, it's not worth it if you want to stay in the program. They 

 

Making a lot of money from Amazon is a big challenge but I'm not giving up yet. It definitely is not very exciting earning 5 cents, 20 cents or so on someone's purchase, but I have had a few random higher earnings between $5-10 per customer every now and then.

]]> Thu, 16 Jan 2014 21:59:12 +0000 Fig (Figuring Money Out) on Experience with Amazon as an affiliate https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/experience-with-amazon-as-an-affiliate/#p98275 Bloggers Lair https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/experience-with-amazon-as-an-affiliate/#p98275 It's definitely not my biggest money maker, but I usually make $25-50 a month with it. I keep adding new links and posts with Amazon links as well so I'm hoping that will grow to a couple hundred a month. 

Overall I don't think it's the best way to make money in the personal finance blog world, but it's still a nice supplement. 

Also, never use your own affiliate links! It is against the terms you agree to and Amazon shouldn't be crediting your account for those purchases. They have canceled account for people even having relatives/friends use affiliate links so I'd be very careful with it.

]]> Thu, 16 Jan 2014 21:23:02 +0000 frugaling on Experience with Amazon as an affiliate https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/experience-with-amazon-as-an-affiliate/#p98272 Bloggers Lair https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/experience-with-amazon-as-an-affiliate/#p98272 Up until this month, I made about a nickel here and there. Honestly, I didn't feel like the program was worth it. I thought that nobody really used the links.

I kept putting them in articles - only where exceptionally relevant (books and guides that I was talking about). Along the way, these things began to catch on.

This month, I'm on track to make $50 from Amazon Affiliate links. I'd highly recommend using them when you have a reasonable following. I might write an article about how you can make money from Amazon affiliate links very soon! Stay tuned.

Sam

]]> Thu, 16 Jan 2014 16:05:07 +0000 Micro on Experience with Amazon as an affiliate https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/experience-with-amazon-as-an-affiliate/#p98252 Bloggers Lair https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/experience-with-amazon-as-an-affiliate/#p98252 I've only had an order go through once and made about 0.50.  Someone had clicked on something I had linked to Amazon but then went and bought some e-books.  I think that's the big thing to take away.  The tracker will still count if the person gets something else off of amazon within a certain time frame.  Since your in a personal finance niche, you pull the same amount of money you do with ad revenue, but it's a nice little way to diversify your income streams.  

]]> Wed, 15 Jan 2014 17:41:24 +0000 First Million is the Hardest on Experience with Amazon as an affiliate https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/experience-with-amazon-as-an-affiliate/#p98251 Bloggers Lair https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/experience-with-amazon-as-an-affiliate/#p98251 I think i've made a total of $5 over 2 years with amazon. It's a good program, its not just the most natural to use in the PF niche IMO. 

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