How I Increased My Amazon Affiliate Revenue x 10
I’ve never been successful with affiliate sales on the web. From what I understand, your best chance of making boatloads of cash on the interwebs is through affiliate sales. If you can nail the affiliate market, you’re golden. Or so I hear.
The problem is, I’ve never been able to nail the affiliate market. Despite reading up on it, and trying different things out, and getting the occasional sale, I just can’t seem to turn it into a reliable source of income.
In fact, the only affiliate system that I’ve ever had some consistent success with has been Amazon. But I must emphasize the *some* - that just means I’ve made dollars rather than cents from it. Up until now, I’ve hardly paid attention to Amazon affiliate income, and certainly don’t depend on it.
But things seem to be changing. On a whim the other day I decided to try out Amazon’s new context links Beta. Basically what you do is drop a little javascript code into your website footer, and Amazon discovers, by context, relevant phrases to link over with product links.
Like most of my endeavors into the world of affiliate sales, I didn’t expect it to work out. But it was just too simple to not at least give a shot. And you only learn by trying so I gave it a shot.
Well, I’m not guaranteeing that you’ll see the same results, but for about a week straight now I’ve been making between $15 and $30 per day in Amazon affiliate sales. That’s not anything to write home about, but when you consider that I was averaging about $1-$3 per day in the past, it’s a huge surge forward and very promising. And since most bloggers are struggling to get into the double digits in daily earnings, this might very well pave a way to compliment your AdSense earnings to bring the goal of becoming a problogger that much closer.
If you’ve got over 100 pages of content, and you’re looking for new revenue streams from your blogging, I’d definitely give context links a shot. It’s very customizable (you can choose the look and feel of the links, you have limited control of the strictness of “context”, and you can choose whether to have product previews popup or not) and not nearly as junky looking as Google AdSense. In fact, as links on your content, Amazaon context links blend right into your site.
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Very interesting, can you explain more detail about how to increase earnings using amazon - ad placement, content of the page etc.