Does Amazon associates work?

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Hello everyone,

I'd like to ask you a simple question: I run a blog and I've been monetizing with adsens until now.

Since I want to find other sources for raising money, I've just started to use AmazonAssociates.
DO you use it? If yes, how do you find it?

Thanks to anyone who will respond
 


When you look into Amazon's affiliate program, make sure you check about cookie tracking. The most recent information I have is that it's only 24 hours. Amazon has a very trusted name, however, so it might be a good affiliate arrangement when you look at the bottom line.
 
24 hour cookie. Shitty commissions. Lots of distractions on product pages including advertisements to external sites. Good luck.

If 100 people come to your site and you were promoting a $250 product on Amazon, assuming a 1% conversion rate and the base 4% commission you'd be earning 10c per visitor.

You can do better with adsense, because merchants are willing to pay more per click than what they'd earn from first-time sales per visitor on average as they factor in customer lifetime value (future sales). As an affiliate you don't get anything for future sales from the people you refer.
 
Not really, not unless you're specifically promoting high-priced stuff like electronics. And even then you'd basically need a site dedicated to doing only that.
 
I find Amazon works better on higher priced goods. They're such a big name that you get added trust when your visitor clicks over to Amazon but the trade off is a really low pay off. I don't use it as a primary means of monetizing any of my sites, but when it fits naturally - like with a product review or throwing a few products at the side of a page as a good filler - I'll toss up an affiliate link.
 
Thanks to all of you for your answers.

I'll try out to implement Amazon programmes in my blog to see if it's worth. Unfortunately I don't talk about electronics in my pages, I'll try to toss up related links, and let's see how it goes

Thanks again, cheers!
 
handrewrites said:
If 100 people come to your site and you were promoting a $250 product on Amazon, assuming a 1% conversion rate and the base 4% commission you'd be earning 10c per visitor.
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It’s easy for beginners to get up to 6.5% commissions. You only need to push more than 31 items per month. Also, if you are getting a 1% conversion rate you are doing something horribly wrong.
 
Amazon associates program sucks and I lost $400 last month invested in amazon associates websites.
 
guysmy said:
It’s easy for beginners to get up to 6.5% commissions. You only need to push more than 31 items per month. Also, if you are getting a 1% conversion rate you are doing something horribly wrong.
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You're probably thinking conversion rate as displayed in the Amazon Associates Central, i.e. conversion per 100 visitors that click through to Amazon.

1% of visitors to your site converting is a conservative, but realistic and common estimate.
 
In Amazon though it's higher, yep he mentioned 6.5% commission rate, not conversions. Conversions in Amazon on a level of 3+% is totally achievable.
 
learn2b said:
When you look into Amazon's affiliate program, make sure you check about cookie tracking. The most recent information I have is that it's only 24 hours. Amazon has a very trusted name, however, so it might be a good affiliate arrangement when you look at the bottom line.
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it is really true!!!
 
Amazon's affiliate section says that you can earn up to 15 percent. Does that depend on the product or the volume of your referral sales? I wish there was a way to sort by price to find the big ticket items. That's the only one to make any money on Amazon with the commission rates they pay.
 
seolinker said:
In Amazon though it's higher, yep he mentioned 6.5% commission rate, not conversions. Conversions in Amazon on a level of 3+% is totally achievable.
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I know he was saying that commission rate can reach 6.5%; I was responding to the statement "Also, if you are getting a 1% conversion rate you are doing something horribly wrong."

I do agree with your statement that "3+% is totally achievable", but a 1% conversion rate isn't necessarily "horribly wrong" either (depends on the product too).

learn2b said:
Amazon's affiliate section says that you can earn up to 15 percent. Does that depend on the product or the volume of your referral sales? I wish there was a way to sort by price to find the big ticket items. That's the only one to make any money on Amazon with the commission rates they pay.
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Both. Electronics will only pay 4% no matter how much you sell, while apparel and accessories tend to have the higher 15% cap. I believe you still begin at 4% for all products.

Not sure what the commission cap on jewelry is (probably 8%), but 4% of this $26k diamond bracelet wouldn't be too bad.
 
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