[TUT] Make Amazon Sites That Convert

[ladygie]

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.

I'll follow your suggestion (1K words on homepage) with the aged domains I bought from you.

I have been building Amazon niche websites (review style) and found that although I earned a reasonable amount in the last 3 months, they're not converting that well. I usually do 800 word "product name" reviews and found them easy to rank, although it depends on the niche and keywords

 

[ladygie]

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

I'm not sure if I put this in the right thread, but I have a question with regards to linkbuilding to an aged domain (I bought one from you last week)

I've been using brand new domains so I was pretty conservative with my backlinking strategy - I used to do some article directory links, blog comments, BMR (when it was working - before it got shut down. lol)... but when I first start a site, I wouldn't backlink it for a month (when I first got started on this whole niche websites thing, I made a mistake of backlinking immediately so it took me a while to rank that site).

If you don't mind me asking about your backlinking strategy - which have you found most effective?

I know Dave has been advocating about web 2.0's (I'm a fellow Ponder as well

 

[jasonenglish77]

Hi,

I've read this thread all the way through, and plan to do it again, because there are some very simple but seemingly effective ideas. I actually have an EMD that I've had for a few months that I haven't been able to monetize well that I'm going to try this on.

For purposes of adding a little more "flair" to entice people to click through (and because it's real easy to do in WP), do you think using images (href'd to amazon) in a rotating slideshow would be any more effective that the OP screenshot method? Using the ruby ring as an example - instead of a single photo of 3 rings, using a clickable slideshow of the rings?

Just curious. Thanks for the good read

 

[bfriend]

i will try this with my blog if i get any results i will share here

 

[itscriminal]

thanks!

 

[Shottingham]

great info thanks

 

[LBrown]

I'm not sure if I put this in the right thread, but I have a question with regards to linkbuilding to an aged domain (I bought one from you last week)

I've been using brand new domains so I was pretty conservative with my backlinking strategy - I used to do some article directory links, blog comments, BMR (when it was working - before it got shut down. lol)... but when I first start a site, I wouldn't backlink it for a month (when I first got started on this whole niche websites thing, I made a mistake of backlinking immediately so it took me a while to rank that site).

If you don't mind me asking about your backlinking strategy - which have you found most effective?

I know Dave has been advocating about web 2.0's (I'm a fellow Ponder as well

I'm not actually a member of the Pond currently (I found Dave from TKA) but Dave is the one who inspired me to be more aggressive in the first place. He's plenty aggressive himself, as is the wife as I understand it. I would never skip linkbuilding for the first month unless I was just too busy with something else. The most effective backlink IMO is a guest blog post or a link from your own blog network but ranking from those exclusively is quite difficult. Strong, well maintained web 2.0s are pretty good too.

Hi,

I've read this thread all the way through, and plan to do it again, because there are some very simple but seemingly effective ideas. I actually have an EMD that I've had for a few months that I haven't been able to monetize well that I'm going to try this on.

For purposes of adding a little more "flair" to entice people to click through (and because it's real easy to do in WP), do you think using images (href'd to amazon) in a rotating slideshow would be any more effective that the OP screenshot method? Using the ruby ring as an example - instead of a single photo of 3 rings, using a clickable slideshow of the rings?

Just curious. Thanks for the good read

Try it. If I were you I'd make sure each slide had a call to action button of some sort, like this one:



One of the biggest advantages you have with Amazon is that you can tell people to click on your links.

 

[LBrown]

Hey LBrown,

I have a question about this because i think this is where my sites are going wrong. I do what is outlined in the OP and i end up with 4 links. Im going to use the ruby ring example. I end up with 1 link to each ruby ring and 1 link for the Call-To-Action button. Am i doing something incorrectly or am i supposed to put no more links in the rest of the site? Thanks a million!

Put no more links in the rest of the site. If you want less than four turn that whole ruby red rings display into a single image (with no prices) and link it to the search result on Amazon. That's just one link and then you can use links elsewhere on the site if you choose.

 

[Hackerbuddha]

1. is it ok to use many sub domains for each niche ?
2. Do you prefer small sites or big like this one - www outdoor - camping - guide com/camping-tents html

 

[LBrown]

1) It's okay to. It's not something I do because I like EMDs.
2) I prefer smaller sites.

1. is it ok to use many sub domains for each niche ?
2. Do you prefer small sites or big like this one - www outdoor - camping - guide com/camping-tents html

 

[RPKalashnikov]

Thanks for a quality thread, LBrown. I have plenty of Azon sites but I think I will tweak some of them to test out your methodology and see what happens.

Have a good day.

 

[kdbbdk]

this is a very good method here

 

[xsalvador]

I've got to test this method, I keep working on backlinks for other affiliates and leaving the potential $$ with all these other forms of marketing.

 

[Foggy101]

Thanks, this is exactly what I was looking for

 

[davids355]

bookmarking for later

 

[Hackerbuddha]

1. Keyword research done (took quite a bit of time and different free tools) but got a couple of good ones that is relatively easy. The thing is not too sure if we can trust the easy index description from the tools.
2. Manually built the site using an addon domain to save some money. A couple of pages, one for each keyword.
3. Next Link building.......

 

[WCO12]

It sounds like these sites are essentially article MNS sites with an ecommerce-styled image (or set of images) leading to Amazon at the top. How far do you go to maintain the ecommerce charade? For example, how do you handle branding the top and side navigation to categories and posts? A typical ecommerce site would have some filter options or something, but that obviously doesn't fit here.

Great thread, btw. +1

 

[LBrown]

It sounds like these sites are essentially article MNS sites with an ecommerce-styled image (or set of images) leading to Amazon at the top.

That's perfect summary.

How far do you go to maintain the ecommerce charade? For example, how do you handle branding the top and side navigation to categories and posts? A typical ecommerce site would have some filter options or something, but that obviously doesn't fit here.

For my little MNS I don't put a ton of work into this. I used to for my bigger sites though before Amazon changed their rules about how you can link (no cloaking). I had listings for brands, by price, and by size all leading to Amazon.

 

[Hackerbuddha]

That's perfect summary.

For my little MNS I don't put a ton of work into this. I used to for my bigger sites though before Amazon changed their rules about how you can link (no cloaking). I had listings for brands, by price, and by size all leading to Amazon.

Is cloaking that profitable? Would you focusoin cloaking other services eg cj, clickbank?

 

[LBrown]

Is cloaking that profitable? Would you focusoin cloaking other services eg cj, clickbank?

The way I was cloaking was just a different way of linking to Amazon, not a different method from what was outlined in the OP.