How to promote my AWS site - Need suggestions

[OnlineGuide]

I've had my AWS site since early summer, and it is not making very much $$$. In fact, it's doing the worst when looking at all my sites. Any ideas on how I can get it rolling, or at lease walking?

[tomek]

I've had my AWS site since early summer, and it is not making very much $$$. In fact, it's doing the worst when looking at all my sites. Any ideas on how I can get it rolling, or at lease walking?

I think we can only give you some advise if you tell us your pages url

[paulfitz]

Yes URL please. I can't really offer advice becauase my AWS STILL hasn't made a sale, but making sure you have search engine optimized it properly really helps..

[eCommando]

Just wondering how well people are doing with the aws sites.

[s2kinteg916]

there is a thread on it in the affiliate forums regarding how well people are doing

[Nintendo]

If you got other sites, link to your store, and wait for Google to crawl it. That's about the best you can do when the site is a clone of hundreds of other sites on the internet.

[moonshield]

Nintendo... is that what you do? Just Wait?

[abelony]

I have a question that is somewhat related to this thread. When someone is directed to amazon form my site and buys something, when will the commission be visible on the report? Is it right after the sale, or the following day, or after shipping, .....etc?

[Nintendo]

Reports are updated about 7:00 AM PST.

:::Nintendo... is that what you do? Just Wait?

That's all you can do, unless you do PPC, use search engines where you PAY per URL to get indexed, or are able to get other sites to link to your store (Good luck, you'll need it!!).

[James]

Yes most webmasters just sort of loathe AWS sites--unless they're their own.
That's why it's always a good idea to just add it to a website that works without it; one that, preferabally already exists.

[Emancipator]

i know i hate the stand alone aws spam sites. Build it into your page however and you can make it a valuable resource and also make sales. Dont fall into the AWS get rich quick concept. It is not going to happen.

[paulfitz]

Well it used to happen but no more I think. But good content + targetted AWS could still prosper I think. I haven't had much success yet, but the engines have been spidering frantically and the sites are looking better. So hopefully in a few months they will do well.

As for promotion, maybe buy some text links to make sure the engines get to the site. I don't see PPC as a worthwhile investment for a starting out AWS - the returns wouldn't be worthwhile. If your site had something which could 'keep' the visitors after their paid click, then PPC might be worthwhile.

[James]

I'm starting a few AWS sites, and tehy're going to use a few other feeds along with AWS to make the site useful. This means I'll be able to have even more pages (I'm guessing 12,000 to even 80,000 more pages) and that'll increase the PR and make the site more useful.

[paulfitz]

What feeds are you using ?

[James]

http://cheatsdatabase.com, http://www.freekrai.net/article/ASM2/, and http://zvonnews.sourceforge.net/
I was going to get more, but I couldn't find any that would suite what I needed.

[topcat]

Hi,

I know this is a really simple question, (I'm still learning)..but what is an AWS site?

Cheers,

Cat :confused:

[Xander]

AWS is Amazon Web Services, its a method of selling Amazons products on your website.

[besttoolbars]

Didn't you think about making your own toolbar, that would help your clients to order your products, search trough your site and so on? It could be a good marketing tool!

[paulfitz]

Or it could be the worse. I hope you aren't spamming the entire forum with the same message ;)

[besttoolbars]

I would not. But this tip could be really helpful, don't you think so?

[Peter T Davis]

I would not. But this tip could be really helpful, don't you think so?

I don't see how it would be helpful to someone running an AWS site.

[tomek]

to all aws site owners:

how are your aws sites doing after the last google update (around 16. december) my shop was doing quite well and since that it's almost dead...

(read more about the google update here: http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum3/27104.htm)

how about you?

[chromate]

Seems you have to pay to read that tomek. My aws sites are doing about right considering it's christmas

[tomek]

Seems you have to pay to read that tomek. My aws sites are doing about right considering it's christmas

link works for me and you don't have to pay... :confused:

Those who are affected by the update were hit pretty hard (with traffic drops from 60% to 90 %) - sadly I am one of those...

something I do on my pages must trigger a filter...

[r2d2]

Webmasterworld just doesnt take direct links I think - if you go to the index and follow links I think you can see it all ok.

My plasma review site took a traffic hit about 8th dec...

[ozgression]

My AWS sites continue to grow. Infact, if anything, my traffic increased since the last update.

[paulfitz]

I just made a post about it on sitepoint forums - yes half of my AWS sites took a major hit with the last update.

None of them were high traffic sites to start with but the ones affected have seen a 30-70% reduction in traffic.

My vampires tomb site was only getting around 70-120 uniques a day but that has gone to 20-70. Questioning the value of creating another AWS site - I was going to create 3 more niche info/AWS sites but the returns are pocket change.

Edit - how are you going Nintendo?

[Peter T Davis]

1589 uniques at one of my AWS sites yesterday.

[alien]

My AWS sites are doing a lot better after the last update and the number of pages indexed has doubled.