Comments on: Amazon Affiliate Program Reviewed

By: Gary R. Hess

Gary R. Hess — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 19:29:03 +0000

If you’ve had good results, then go for it.

Could you enlighten me more on the “mini-sites”? Are you talking about something like Twitter or something else entirely?

By: Richard McTaggart

Richard McTaggart — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 19:06:12 +0000

I’m using mini-sites! in the form of blogs, so no url. but as a disabled person, just embarking on affiliate marketing,(I’ve had good results so far) so I’m hoping the lack of a site wunt deter you?
thanks
Richard

By: Gary R. Hess

Gary R. Hess — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 15:46:00 +0000

So true. That is something I forgot to mention. I have no clue why they haven’t found a better way to work with non-US visitors.

By: Juha Ylitalo

Juha Ylitalo — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 06:59:19 +0000

My main complaint about amazon’s affiliate program is that it doesn’t work well global scale When you sign up, you sign up with amazon.com, amazon.co.uk, amazon.de, or other individual shop instead of Amazon as a whole. This is all fine and dandy, if you sign up to amazon.com and all your visitors come from USA, but for example in Europe, some europeans might want to prefer Amazon.de or Amazon.fr over Amazon.co.uk, because they a) live in that country, b) are more comftable with germany or french and/or c) prefer to get prices in euros instead of GBP or some other reason.
Another issue is that amazon.co.uk is very country specific in its banner etc. they have banners advertising how they offer free shipping within UK if you order over 15GBP’s worth. Free shipping would be nice, but if you don’t live in UK …
All in all, in Europe its very hard to pick up the best Amazon for your readers.

Of course you can get around these issues by signing up into all Amazon stores, building up country detection into your website and choosing best shop based on that, but I feel that it would be in everyones interest if Amazon stores would do that for us.

P.S. Reason why I haven’t signed up to amazon.com is that its so much simpler to buy something from a store that is inside EU boundaries (i.e. amazon.co.uk). Also I would assume that shipping times are more reasonable that way.

By: Gary R. Hess

Gary R. Hess — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 22:04:33 +0000

Have you tried product reviews or top 10 lists?

By: Gary R. Hess

Gary R. Hess — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 22:00:41 +0000

Did you try reviewing the product in question on its own page? That is generally what works best with affiliate programs. If you just place an ad somewhere randomly (even if it is within a post) it’s hard to sell. Some people might see it, click out of curiosity with a low chance of selling. If you review the product, they will see it and click to it and possibly buy it at a higher possibility.

By: Maldiveslive

Maldiveslive — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 21:04:24 +0000

So many affiliation programm to follow. I didn’t know before this article there is Amozon one.

By: sir jorge

sir jorge — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 18:56:45 +0000

I’ve tried a lot of things with Amazon and while I get 50 clicks a day, no one buys anything. I’m not sure what is wrong or how to optimize it any more.

By: Ben

Ben — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 16:57:51 +0000

I have tried Amazon for sometime now and have not really had any luck with them. I tried posting their ads in post and even giving them a prominent spot on the landing page of my site. Nothing seemed to work. So for the time being I will not be using them as a revenue source.