Hey just thought I'd update:
I mentioned earlier that last thursday (as a complete and utter noob), I made my first website and began marketing it on Friday. I spent the whole of Thursday night learning and using Wordpress; reading forums, watching youtube vids etc. when I ran into problems (and I assure you the number of problems that I ran into was no laughing matter). I've spent about an hour and a bit a day getting my website out there (if I include the time spent trying to fix problems on my website this becomes many hours).
So far the stats are:
-1987 unique visitors
-1506 clicks on Amazon. 59 ordered items. So far 29 have been shipped.
- My Amazon is only showing earnings for the shipped items, so currently the Earnings Summary is showing a total revenue of $1006 and my advertising revenue is $60.
-I wanted to find out my total revenue and fees so I went through all the items that had been ordered (took ages, is there a quicker way to do this?) and though I don't understand how the commision structure works (each item has a different % and it says if I reach 2 more items my referral rate will be 6.5%), I worked out my total revenue is $2100. If I apply the 6.5% on that it gives me an advertising fee of $137.
For spending so much time each day as I have since Friday on this, to me it isn't a good return. I'm going to cut back to spending only 15 minutes a day getting my website out there now.