View Full Version : Amazon Affiliate program WORKS!
Shawn
12-11-2003, 03:33 PM
Yes, it does work. I've sold about 10 items the last few days (not all pages are in the search engines yet). Today I sold a $350 phone through my site.
Bling, bling.
Check it out: www.wirelessphonereviews.com/wireless_phones/
s2kinteg916
12-11-2003, 03:34 PM
awesome.....
looks like your money is growing day in day out
Chris
12-11-2003, 04:07 PM
What did I tell you?
Shawn
12-11-2003, 04:09 PM
That 5% blows though. But, hell, it's not like I'm actually doing any work now for Wireless Phone Reviews. Just sitting back and getting money.
chromate
12-11-2003, 04:12 PM
Fantastic! Great to see it's working out for you. Shame about the poor commission though. Is there no one else you could affiliate with that pays better?
GCT13
12-11-2003, 05:43 PM
I sold my first portable DVD player last week. $10 baby: cha-CHING! :)
Google finally indexed my site yesterday, so I'm looking forward to the next Dance.
ozgression
12-11-2003, 05:55 PM
Well done guys ;)
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Chris
12-11-2003, 06:23 PM
5% is pretty good compared with 1% from Dell, 2% from Buy.com, etc.
Plus if you do high volume you can get that up to 7% or so.
Shawn
12-11-2003, 06:59 PM
Speaking of which, my inside pages have PR now -- when the hell are the SERPs going to update?
Well done Shawn:)
The 1% from Dell is just like Amazon's commision if you think about it Chris though. $500 computer sold is $5 commision on dell, $100 phone is also $5 commision on amazon:)
chromate
12-12-2003, 10:44 AM
Shawn,
'was surfing around your site and kept getting a lot of "We apologize, there is a server error. Please refresh this page." messages. Probably something to do with the Amazon feed?
Anyway, thought i'd let ya know!
GCT13
12-12-2003, 10:56 AM
Amazon is having a very bad day with its feed. :mad:
Yeh, I'm getting page cannot be found when visiting parts of Portable DVD Player.
GCT13
12-12-2003, 11:22 AM
The Amazon web services message boards are blowing up. It seems Amazon "introduced" new features this week, causing the feed to freak today.
Ah Amazon, we are so dependant on thee... why two weeks before xmas? :confused:
Shawn
12-12-2003, 11:57 AM
Amazon, fix thee!
chromate
12-12-2003, 01:01 PM
If google decides to crawl you when the feed is down, it could really mean trouble.
I think if I were using AWS I would be caching pages, just in case. Hmmm. In fact no, realistically and if I'm being honest, I probably wouldn't bother. lol. But in a perfect world I would. No hang on - in a perfect world, the feed would never go down. Oh, you get my drift! :) Haha
Shawn
12-12-2003, 01:10 PM
Retarded? ;p
GCT13
12-12-2003, 01:39 PM
Originally posted by chromate
If google decides to crawl you when the feed is down, it could really mean trouble.That's part of the fun.
My pages are cached for one hour. Amazon wants prices updated every hour. It's on a timer so when you have extended outages like today you're still in trouble when the cache expires.
I'm working on something more advanced that will cache data to a database. I'll be able to update different pieces of data at different times (like price every hour, everything else every 24 hours), and it'll provide an okay layer for when the feed goes out of whack. So if we have a day like today when 50% of requests are getting errors, it'll just use the data in the database.
Chris
12-12-2003, 02:46 PM
You could configure it so that if the feed goes down it does not reset the cache.
ozgression
12-12-2003, 05:42 PM
Originally posted by Mike
Well done Shawn:)
The 1% from Dell is just like Amazon's commision if you think about it Chris though. $500 computer sold is $5 commision on dell, $100 phone is also $5 commision on amazon:)
Not really. It's alot harder to sell a $500 product than a $100 product.
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Shawn
12-12-2003, 08:21 PM
Yep. The cheaper a product is, the less justification for the purchase the consumer has to create.
Chris
12-12-2003, 11:36 PM
Amazon also sells computers.
One awesome thing is they'll be removing the $10 per item cap for the next quarter, which should really help sellers who sell the higher priced items.
Shawn
12-13-2003, 12:42 AM
There are a good amount of phones $200+, so that is pretty awesome.
That's a good thing yea. I was going to sell things through amazon so it's come at the right time for me:)
Shawn
12-13-2003, 09:03 AM
How's the template site going?
Not bad thanks. I made about $175 so far, not much considering how long it's taken.
Need to work on new sites now though.
BTW, I like your new avatar:)
s2kinteg916
12-13-2003, 10:11 AM
i think i contributed 1 dollar to that ....
Shawn
12-13-2003, 10:33 AM
Thanks, I like the avatar too :)
GCT13
12-13-2003, 11:44 AM
Originally posted by Chris
You could configure it so that if the feed goes down it does not reset the cache. A good idea, although I don't think my current solution will support that. It's built to be as light as possible, for something more robust I've gotta make progress on my database solution I described above.
incka
12-14-2003, 11:07 AM
For your phone site I recommed the strange affilate program that is run by the same people as pop up sponsor, I saw it in a guys sig on site point.
s2kinteg916
12-14-2003, 12:08 PM
i would stick with amazon...
reputable company help close sales...
Amazon's the safer option.
ozgression
12-14-2003, 06:04 PM
Originally posted by incka
For your phone site I recommed the strange affilate program that is run by the same people as pop up sponsor, I saw it in a guys sig on site point.
http://www.cellularphones.com by Standard Internet?
I would suggest sticking with Amazon.
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s2kinteg916
12-17-2003, 03:58 PM
hey shawn how many uniques were u getting a day before u got your first sale with amazon ?
Shawn
12-17-2003, 07:29 PM
Er -- without checking, somewhere like 600.
cpnmm
12-18-2003, 07:27 AM
Shawn, which script do you use to generate your amazon feeds? Also which method do you use to make them search engine friendly.
Thanks
Artmoon
01-03-2004, 10:43 PM
What did I tell you?
"Share...share" chanted the newbie member :)
Chris
01-04-2004, 10:54 AM
Originally posted by Artmoon
"Share...share" chanted the newbie member :)
I've been giving Shawn lots of advice on his project, even gave him the idea. What I told him in this regard was that he should add review pages for wireless phones/plans and link them to amazon. He wasn't sure it would work at first.
Just checking - Amazon doesn't mind affiliates copying their descriptions and reviews verbatim?
Shawn
01-04-2004, 04:48 PM
It's a feed. It comes directly from Amazon.
Cool! Are you using the Amazon Products Feed PERL script (or something else)?
GCT13
01-04-2004, 11:16 PM
I use Amazon's Web Services to display product information, using PHP. Amazon has allowed web developers to access its product catelog via an XML feed, making it possible for webmasters to display dozens or hundreds (or even thousands) of Amazon products on their site, with very little time cost investment neccessary. Everything from user reviews to pricing information is updated automatically.
More information on one of my sites that use AWS here (http://www.websitepublisher.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=506).
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