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9:42 am
January 13, 2014
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allaboutinterest
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One of my goals this year is to grow my blog and affiliate income. I'm currently set up only with adsense but just today have signed up with Amazon and am playing around with some of their links.
I'd like to know anyone's experience using Amazon as an affiliate and what's the best way to market their products on your site? Even a good approach to market affiliate products in general would be great.
Any help would be appreciated.
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2:28 pm
January 13, 2014
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annielogue
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I'm an Amazon affiliate. It's not a big moneymaker, but better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick. One way I use it is for clip art, posting pictures (when appropriate) of products that they sell.
I also use it for my own purchases, saving a little money that way.
Annie
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3:08 pm
January 13, 2014
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allaboutinterest
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Hi Annie,
I'll have to give it a shot and play around with it more.
So you are saying I could click on my own links to make purchases and will earn affiliate money? This won't get me in trouble with the affiliate program? It seems like there would be something against this in their policies.
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5:52 pm
January 13, 2014
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I've never been credited for purchases I've made when clicking my own affiliate links.
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2:07 am
January 14, 2014
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frugaling
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I highly recommend never using your own affiliate links. You can be kicked out of the program for abuses like this.
As for using it as a moneymaker, it actually helps a lot once you have a regular readership. Amazon affiliate links are nice for random product mentions and nods to certain citations in books. Even people don't buy the direct product, you are credited with purchases made during that session. It's ended up making me about $10 this month, which is not much compared to other revenue streams, but for the effort, it works for me.
Hope that helps!
Sam
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9:26 am
January 15, 2014
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Eric – PersonalProfitability.com
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frugaling said:
I highly recommend never using your own affiliate links. You can be kicked out of the program for abuses like this.
100% true. It is against the rules to use your own links and you can be kicked out if you are caught. They do track IP addresses, so it will catch up to you eventually.
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5:21 pm
January 15, 2014
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First Million is the Hardest
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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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5:41 pm
January 15, 2014
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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.
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4:05 pm
January 16, 2014
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frugaling
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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
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9:23 pm
January 16, 2014
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Fig (Figuring Money Out)
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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.
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9:59 pm
January 16, 2014
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Untemplater
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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.
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2:09 pm
January 17, 2014
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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.
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7:21 am
January 19, 2014
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allaboutinterest
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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.
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12:50 pm
January 19, 2014
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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.
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6:20 am
January 21, 2014
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Eve of Reduction
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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.
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9:41 am
January 28, 2014
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Khaleef @ KNS Financial
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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.
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9:31 pm
January 28, 2014
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Untemplater
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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.
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7:48 pm
January 29, 2014
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NomadWallet
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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.
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9:49 pm
January 30, 2014
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Untemplater
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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.
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12:50 pm
January 31, 2014
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NomadWallet
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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. :)
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