[TUT] Make Amazon Sites That Convert

[cdn_craigs]

@LBROWN - does the Adplugin.net tool let you remove the amazon logo?

 

[LBrown]

@LBROWN - does the Adplugin.net tool let you remove the amazon logo?

Yes it does. You can create your own template. In mine I stripped out everything but the image, name of product and the price. The Amazon logo is just an image so it is super easy remove.

 

[cdn_craigs]

i thnk i am going to buy but do recco adplugin.net if im building a site to look like a ecommerce site?

 

[thestrategist]

Thanks LBrown for this great tutorial.

Instead of Wordpress I am using Joomla so I will need to adjust the method a bit (find the right plugin).

 

[Ryath]

Wow! You have enough information to convert this to a PDF and put it out as a WSO!

Splendid job. Appreciate the time you have spent on this. Thank you

 

[LBrown]

i thnk i am going to buy but do recco adplugin.net if im building a site to look like a ecommerce site?

Yes, that is why I use it, to make my sites look like a mini store.

 

[cloakme]

LBrown,

I first want to say that you have given quite a few ideas in this post that if everyone actually follows them through they can make money. If I am understanding correctly it is a very simple process. I will break it down and maybe you can give your thumbs up or down.
1. Sign up for Amazon
2. Walk through amazon to find a niche and do keyword research to find a relevant EMD that will be easy to rank.
3. Upload your theme and use WP-Amazon-Price or http://adsplugin.net/ to make your site look like a store above the fold.
4.Below the fold have an article so google sees content on your site.
5. no follow your affiliate links with http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-external-links/ or http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/...-link-manager/
6. optimize your onsite SEO
7. Do offsite SEO to rank your site.
8. While waiting for this site to rank build another one!
9. Keep rinsing and repeat.

Am I missing anything that is important? Seems so simple, but simple is good..

 

[LBrown]

Great synopsis, cloakme. I just add the rel="nofollow" tag inside the link code instead of using a nofollow plugin and I don't do much for onsite SEO but otherwise you've got it.

 

[zep123dmc]

I've noticed you can create a link to an amazon search result page of similar products listed like here: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias=aps&field-keywords=bose

Does that mean if someone clicks that type of affiliate link you'll get a commission if he/she buys one of those products listed on that search result page?

 

[pauly]

very interesting am going to give this a try.........

 

[Dave welton]

Has to be one of the most helpful threads I have read, Thank you

 

[LBrown]

I've noticed you can create a link to an amazon search result page of similar products listed like here: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=bose

Does that mean if someone clicks that type of affiliate link you'll get a commission if he/she buys one of those products listed on that search result page?

If someone clicks on your affiliate link you get a commission on anything they buy from Amazon within 24 hours of clicking on your link regardless of where your link sends them on Amazon.

 

[guruslayer23]

Bookmarked. Thanks for sharing. Truly appreciative of everyone sharing their experiences. Cheers!

 

[mindmaster]

I've noticed you can create a link to an amazon search result page of similar products listed like here: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=bose

Does that mean if someone clicks that type of affiliate link you'll get a commission if he/she buys one of those products listed on that search result page?

First lesson. Never share an amazon link without your tacking/ ref id.
I can bet that you would've made few sells from your fellow bhw fellows.

However don't do it on BHW, now that you know it. Its against the rules.

 

[ewaffles]

What theme is good for an Amazon affiliate site?

Also, does anyone struggle with out ranking amazon themselves for products?

 

[ladygie]

I got a couple of questions, Ms LBrown:

1. With your micro niche site with an EMD, how many articles do you usually put out? (not including SEO pages, like About, Privacy, and Disclaimer)

2. With an aged EMD, how aggressive is your backlinking? (Do you build backlinks immediately after putting some articles on a dropped domain which you recently bought?)

I just bought one EMD keyword from you - it's actually my first time buying, I usually get new domains, but with the recent Google changes, even my niche sites' traffic have dropped by half, and it's annoying to see months of effort go wasted in just a snap.

 

[ladygie]

What theme is good for an Amazon affiliate site?

Also, does anyone struggle with out ranking amazon themselves for products?

The key here is NOT to compete with amazon for product keywords, there are many product keyword variations... or you can target "product" + "use" keywords phrases.

 

[ladygie]

I don't know of anyone who is serious about SEO who is advising against aggressive backlinking. What I do is not very different than what most people are doing. The biggest differences would be my focus on thousands of low volume keywords instead of a few dozen high volume keywords and I make sure my sites hit a lot of social metrics: twitter, facebook, pinterest, bookmarks, etc.

Yes, I use my generated content with blogger. I haven't had any bans that I know of. I do one blog per account though just in case.

When you say social metrics, how do you get it done?

 

[ladygie]

Sure, this method works great with Squidoo and Squidoo has done well through the recent algo updates.

Nowadays, On Google SERPS, I am not seeing Squidoo results on the first few pages.... so I wonder how people earn from squidoo/hubpages. Is it social? from commenting on other people's lenses, etc????

Some reflection on the sites I have from the EMDs that LBown sold me.

2 sites suck terribly... real bad... no rankings... no traiffic... nothing... who cares though because...

The other 8 have me on cloud 9... great rankings... great traffic and most importantly great revenue.

LBrown is a stand up human being offering a very solid service that can make you money if you take her base product and build on it.

Kudos, Kudos, Kudos, LBrown!

I don't understand, Bass.

We're buying domains, right? not full-blown sites... so how come?

Anyways, are you using the method outlined here by Ms LBrown?


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This sucks! I can't multi-quote reply as I am triggering spam filters :hitwithro

 

[LBrown]

I got a couple of questions, Ms LBrown:

1. With your micro niche site with an EMD, how many articles do you usually put out? (not including SEO pages, like About, Privacy, and Disclaimer)

2. With an aged EMD, how aggressive is your backlinking? (Do you build backlinks immediately after putting some articles on a dropped domain which you recently bought?)

I just bought one EMD keyword from you - it's actually my first time buying, I usually get new domains, but with the recent Google changes, even my niche sites' traffic have dropped by half, and it's annoying to see months of effort go wasted in just a snap.

1. It depends on the keyword but usually 1-10. I think words on the page you're trying to rank is more of an important factor than the number of posts the site has and I like to see a minimum of 1000 words on my homepage.

2. I build links immediately and consider myself pretty aggressive with the links.

FYI, I've found that my sites targeting lower volume keywords have been the most stable through the algo updates. The sites I've been building lately have been for keywords with under 1k local searches because they're easier to rank and they stay put longer.