Amazon Authority Website Journey to € 1000 a Day - 100% Outsourced

[pcobyrne]

You need to provide backlinks for the root of your domain as for your inner pages.
That said I can't do backlinks for 150 articles now and 2000 artiles then because this will be unnatural and really spammy (as well as impossible without the use of poor quality backlinks).

The goal is to create an authoritative site that Google can recognize as that to give priority in SERPs without many backlinks on inner pages (the Amazon's case).
So I'm building backlinks to the root of the domain and few for most important inner pages, by the time all the inner pages will receive the juice of the homepage (thanks to the technique of the silo) and all content will benefit it!


I'm using Siloing method to interlink all contents.

Here's what I'm using (as stated in Bruce Clay guide on Silo):

For example, let's say you want to create a virtual silo for crunchy peanut butter using the following five crunchy peanut butter pages as support pages:

Peanutbuttersite.com/crunchy/superchunk.html
Peanutbuttersite.com/crunchy/lowfat.html
Peanutbuttersite.com/crunchy/organic.html
Peanutbuttersite.com/crunchy/jellyhybrid.html
Peanutbuttersite.com/crunchy/almond.html

To create the virtual silo, all five pages would link to the crunchy peanut butter landing page. This tells the search engines that these pages are related to and support the topic presented in the landing page. Each page should then also include a link to every other support page in the virtual silo. In this case, each support page would link to the four other support pages of the silo. The easiest way to do this is to include navigation on the page to link the pages together, essentially creating a category-sitemap on the page.

Thats pages and not catagories

 

[mikkom]

I cloaked my links recently so Google wont find me that "spammy" > Higher rank probably.

Do you really think google doesn't understand your 3XX "cloaking"? You can't outsmart google with your simple stuff...

Read this link:

(edit: this fucking site... I'm still not allowed to post urls.. The same error again. Google this exact string:
google-json-ld-and-javascript-crawling-and-indexing-test.html )

 

[andreavai]

Yes, all contents are created to promote products
I've an average of 4/5 products per review, are a lot but from my data I see that people want to compare products!

Your 3rd question doesn't make sense If you and I were in the same niche definitely we would earn different amounts of money.
I've my methods and with it I can earn more or less in the same niche.

In addition to this, you need to do a survey of the area and understand if people are spending more in cat or dog products!

Hi, first all thanks for this thread, I am reading for 5h and I'm still in the 17th page hehe.


1. About the question, in this post, u say what every article are created to promote products, every article are compare products? How u can create 500 articles compare products of 1 niche?

2. Why u said what u cant invest in US market? I am Brazilian and want make US sites, any problem with this?

3. "I'm starting to publish 500 words articles and when I can see ranking improvements I'm making it bigger using more long tails (1500+ words)" Why? Why not start with 1500 words?


Thanks! Amazing thread, will make 1 site amazon this week.

 

[Wolfz]

Hi, first all thanks for this thread, I am reading for 5h and I'm still in the 17th page hehe.


1. About the question, in this post, u say what every article are created to promote products, every article are compare products? How u can create 500 articles compare products of 1 niche?

2. Why u said what u cant invest in US market? I am Brazilian and want make US sites, any problem with this?

3. "I'm starting to publish 500 words articles and when I can see ranking improvements I'm making it bigger using more long tails (1500+ words)" Why? Why not start with 1500 words?


Thanks! Amazing thread, will make 1 site amazon this week.

Problema nenhum.

 

[arganrecords]

Thats pages and not catagories

Can be posts, categories or pages, you can simply customize your WordPress theme (in any case WordPress isn't silo ready)...

Do you really think google doesn't understand your 3XX "cloaking"? You can't outsmart google with your simple stuff...

Read this link:

(edit: this fucking site... I'm still not allowed to post urls.. The same error again. Google this exact string:
google-json-ld-and-javascript-crawling-and-indexing-test.html )

Exactly, Google can't read if you blog redirects with Robots.txt but isn't a good idea.
Amazon's links to related products will also increase the strength of your content because the links are relevant and very thematic.

Hi, first all thanks for this thread, I am reading for 5h and I'm still in the 17th page hehe.

1. About the question, in this post, u say what every article are created to promote products, every article are compare products? How u can create 500 articles compare products of 1 niche?
2. Why u said what u cant invest in US market? I am Brazilian and want make US sites, any problem with this?
3. "I'm starting to publish 500 words articles and when I can see ranking improvements I'm making it bigger using more long tails (1500+ words)" Why? Why not start with 1500 words?

Thanks! Amazing thread, will make 1 site amazon this week.

1. My industry isn't a niche and is really big. To create so much content I'm doing keyword research with SemRush...
2. Because I don't know anything about US market. I need to find a marketer like me but in the US that can overseeing the work. I already created few US projects but I can't "plan for success" as in the IT market.
3. Because you don't need to use long tails from tools, you need to find these long tails in your Webmatser Tools! You can use long tail tools but aren't the best solution as data from Webmaster Tools.

 

[m4nuell]

Is it okay to take pics from amazon, crop them (or not if not necessary), upload on my own hosting and post them from there? I know they say in ToS that you can't do that and you should link them instead but I guess everyone does that and linking would ruin the page loading time. Just wondering could they ban you for that and could you run into some copyright infrigement? How are you dealing with pictures on your site?

 

[arganrecords]

Is it okay to take pics from amazon, crop them (or not if not necessary), upload on my own hosting and post them from there? I know they say in ToS that you can't do that and you should link them instead but I guess everyone does that and linking would ruin the page loading time. Just wondering could they ban you for that and could you run into some copyright infrigement? How are you dealing with pictures on your site?

I'm uploading pictures on my Server but 5 minutes ago I sent a request to Amazon's support.
Have you seen what I just did? I ask questions to those who definitely knows more than me and so should you

When you create an Amazon affiliate website you can have 200 or more questions about Operative Agreement, for this contact Amazon's support anytime you want.

Edit: note that I'm in the EU and what can be great for me couldn't be for you.

 

[m4nuell]

Yep I know but I dont have aff acc yet let us know what they said.

 

[blommas]

How deep should my niche be? Here's an example - would it be fine to choose a really broad niche category like "health" and then have subcategories like "weight loss", "fitness", "healthy food recipes", "gain weight" all on the same site?`Or would it be better to take a smaller niche like "smoothies", and then promote products in "smoothie blenders", "smoothie recipes" etc.
I already have an indexed 4 month old domain (or somewhere near that), that is calledrandomkeywordcategorykeyword.com, for example cooltechnology.com - But I'm afraid that the niche is too wide, and maybe it would be better to go into a smaller niche, and base my site of PC mouses for example?

 

[Biol22]

I'm uploading pictures on my Server but 5 minutes ago I sent a request to Amazon's support.

So what's the response? Can we upload pictures on our servers?

 

[witness]

So what's the response? Can we upload pictures on our servers?

Probably also depends on your country and whether Amazon even has a license to give you any rights to upload images.

I operate websites from Germany (bad idea, move abroad if you can!) and I recently got hit with a cease-and-desist order by a big company that produces consumer goods.

I had hosted around 25 Amazon images (with affiliate links) and they claimed the value of dispute was around 70.000 Euro (~ 75,000.00$). Such a high sum has been backed by several German court decisions in the past unfortunately.

In the end I only had to pay my lawyer (~2000 Euro) and had to stop monetizing that particular website. They could still sue me for damages though, which would amount to around 20.000 Euro (~ 21,800.00$), if I loose.

So definitely contact Amazon support before uploading anything

Edit: Thanks for posting your journey, arganrecords - keep it up and succeed!

 

[Wolfz]

Probably also depends on your country and whether Amazon even has a license to give you any rights to upload images.

I operate websites from Germany (bad idea, move abroad if you can!) and I recently got hit with a cease-and-desist order by a big company that produces consumer goods.

I had hosted around 25 Amazon images (with affiliate links) and they claimed the value of dispute was around 70.000 Euro (~ 75,000.00$). Such a high sum has been backed by several German court decisions in the past unfortunately.

In the end I only had to pay my lawyer (~2000 Euro) and had to stop monetizing that particular website. They could still sue me for damages though, which would amount to around 20.000 Euro (~ 21,800.00$), if I loose.

So definitely contact Amazon support before uploading anything

Edit: Thanks for posting your journey, arganrecords - keep it up and succeed!

Damn..

So what you gonna do now ?

Google images? hehehe

 

[cyrus451]

AG,

Do you write articles for your site in the first person, ie. " I like this product becuase" or do you do simple reviews in another style?

 

[andreavai]

How many pages do you create that target "best product name" and "product name reviews"?
You : "Well, I will create one of these pages every time I can find a great volume keyword (I mean from 480 searches per month"

This is your metric to choose a micro niche product within your macro niche? 500 ~ words?
and how you see the level of competition, whether it is worthwhile or not make the niche?

 

[arganrecords]

How deep should my niche be? Here's an example - would it be fine to choose a really broad niche category like "health" and then have subcategories like "weight loss", "fitness", "healthy food recipes", "gain weight" all on the same site?`Or would it be better to take a smaller niche like "smoothies", and then promote products in "smoothie blenders", "smoothie recipes" etc.
I already have an indexed 4 month old domain (or somewhere near that), that is calledrandomkeywordcategorykeyword.com, for example cooltechnology.com - But I'm afraid that the niche is too wide, and maybe it would be better to go into a smaller niche, and base my site of PC mouses for example?

What's the budget do you have to invest in this project?
When you want to build a wide website you need to have at least 5K (even more) to start with content.

But if you're planning to invest so much money you need to know what are you going to do...
If a wide wbesite scares you go with small niche website, in this way you can fail and learnm without throw too much money.

The bigger your website is and the better you'll rank for "Healt" keyword (with proper interlinking - Silo).

So what's the response? Can we upload pictures on our servers?

I'm waiting for the answer, we aren't here to chat dude

Probably also depends on your country and whether Amazon even has a license to give you any rights to upload images.

I operate websites from Germany (bad idea, move abroad if you can!) and I recently got hit with a cease-and-desist order by a big company that produces consumer goods.

I had hosted around 25 Amazon images (with affiliate links) and they claimed the value of dispute was around 70.000 Euro (~ 75,000.00$). Such a high sum has been backed by several German court decisions in the past unfortunately.

In the end I only had to pay my lawyer (~2000 Euro) and had to stop monetizing that particular website. They could still sue me for damages though, which would amount to around 20.000 Euro (~ 21,800.00$), if I loose.

So definitely contact Amazon support before uploading anything

Edit: Thanks for posting your journey, arganrecords - keep it up and succeed!

WTF! You help them to sell products and they're hungry for your money...
Really stupid attitude because they're blocking an advertising channel!

AG,

Do you write articles for your site in the first person, ie. " I like this product becuase" or do you do simple reviews in another style?

No, my contents are really descriptive and full of informations (my copywriters are sepeaking directly to potential customers).
Really depends by your industry...

How many pages do you create that target "best product name" and "product name reviews"?
You : "Well, I will create one of these pages every time I can find a great volume keyword (I mean from 480 searches per month"

This is your metric to choose a micro niche product within your macro niche? 500 ~ words?
and how you see the level of competition, whether it is worthwhile or not make the niche?

No, there aren't metrics you need to watch keyword's SERP and you need to analzie title, url and content...
To see the competition first of all I'm using Moz, then I will check SERPs.

 

[m4nuell]

Okay guys I've messaged US Amazon Support and this is reply that I've received. Any thoughts now? Looks like using their images may get you banned/lead to copyright infrigement stuff. What are your thoughts on this?

I'm very sorry that you may not copy Amazon.com pictures and host them on your server and put on your website.

Product images, videos, and reviews written/created by other sources, including professional reviewers, authors, publishers and customers, are copyrighted by others. We display them on our site by permission from the third parties. Amazon.com doesn't have the legal right to give you permission to access, use, or display them.

Videos, images and editorial reviews that are available in Associate Central may be displayed on any page that includes attribution and a link to Amazon.com.

If you wish to use Amazon.com's product images on your web site,you may obtain them by creating Product Links on Associates Central or through Product Advertising API. Customer product reviews are also available through Product Advertising API.

 

[arganrecords]

Okay guys I've messaged US Amazon Support and this is reply that I've received. Any thoughts now? Looks like using their images may get you banned/lead to copyright infrigement stuff. What are your thoughts on this?

I received responses from the team but I wasn't denied to me to use directly their images.
I made 2 specific questions and they answered 2 times without specifying that I can not use pictures of Amazon hosted on my server (they said to use widgets).

Now I'm going to study better their Operative Agreement (in the UE version) and then I will make changes on my websites (if needed).
In that case, I will develop a custom API tool to auto detect images on Amazon (related to my keywords) and insert them in Posts/Pages/Categories + Featured Thumbnails...

I will send more questions to Amazon's support, from what I understand, the operator does not want to answer my question in a clear way (maybe he doesn't know the answer).

 

[TheRenegade]

M4nuell's post gives me the impression that only content created by others is copyrighted. So that means user photos and reviews. That's probably why Amazon pulled reviews from their API years ago.

Links that you create using associate central, contain thumbnails of the product photos. I have a hard time believing you can't crop a product photo and put it on your site.

Why, after all these years, is there still so much doubt about how Amazon's TOS works?

I wish they'd communicate like actual human beings.

 

[ridersark]

Okay guys I've messaged US Amazon Support and this is reply that I've received. Any thoughts now? Looks like using their images may get you banned/lead to copyright infrigement stuff. What are your thoughts on this?

I guess the reply you received clearly states that you can use those images on pages that link back to Amazon using your affiliate code. So why should that be an issue for either Amazon or the Manufacturer? I mean to say that, the whole point of using the associates program is to promote products from Amazon.

 

[andreavai]

No, there aren't metrics you need to watch keyword's SERP and you need to analzie title, url and content...
To see the competition first of all I'm using Moz, then I will check SERPs.

U dont understand, I say, how much search the product have for you create a article? 400?
How much points u domain have in moz, in "domain authority"?
And last question, 50% difficulty is very very very hard right?