[Journey] Amazon Affiliate Still Profitable or a Bust?

So far the worst think about amazon is returns.
Yesterday earnings:
Screenshot 2026-07-23 at 16-00-24 Amazon.com Associates Central.png
 
Using paid: Gemini and Perplexity
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for automation do you install mcp adapter & wsc mcp connector plugins to connect claude ai so that you can automatically generated the article and saved as a draft from the dashboard
 
for automation do you install mcp adapter & wsc mcp connector plugins to connect claude ai so that you can automatically generated the article and saved as a draft from the dashboard
No i have custom tool i built, to create and publish content, but still manually approve everything, checking all images, checking asin and links, adding interlinks...
 
So far the worst think about amazon is returns.
Yesterday earnings:
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Generally the returns are mostly the results of items not linked by you but that users had in their cart. Some even order multiple variants of the same product and keep one returning the rest. The other one is for products that have a high return rate, amazon warns if you are logged in amazon aff and browse the product url. No way to automate that so far.

Quick question. Do you do automated keyword research before creating a post so its better targeted with keywords or just feed the main keyword?
 
Generally the returns are mostly the results of items not linked by you but that users had in their cart. Some even order multiple variants of the same product and keep one returning the rest. The other one is for products that have a high return rate, amazon warns if you are logged in amazon aff and browse the product url. No way to automate that so far.

Quick question. Do you do automated keyword research before creating a post so its better targeted with keywords or just feed the main keyword?
I just targeting products i want to have on my site, don't check for keywords in any tools, because for affiliate sites it's very hard to rank not long tail keywords.
 
I just targeting products i want to have on my site, don't check for keywords in any tools, because for affiliate sites it's very hard to rank not long tail keywords.
What about creator connections product picking? Do you automate it in any way or its manual?
 
What about creator connections product picking? Do you automate it in any way or its manual?
No it's all manual. I haven't automatized and optimized everything, this is just my side gig. If everything will pickup at least 3k per month will invest more time.
Friday stats:
Screenshot 2026-07-26 at 10-14-03 Amazon.com Associates Central.png
 
Nice journey, you don't have to rely only on organic traffic. You can generate traffic from social media pages or run ads.
Yes i know, but i want to be as more passive as possible in the feature, so trying to rank on search engines.
Yesterday earnings:

Screenshot 2026-07-30 at 13-53-20 Amazon.com Associates Central.png
 
One thing worth flagging on your traffic split: DuckDuckGo and Yahoo both take their web results from Bing's index, so what reads as three sources is really one. but other than that very impressive results I ran amazon with pinterest and made no money but scaled pinterest accounts to millions of impression but keep going.
 
One thing worth flagging on your traffic split: DuckDuckGo and Yahoo both take their web results from Bing's index, so what reads as three sources is really one. but other than that very impressive results I ran amazon with pinterest and made no money but scaled pinterest accounts to millions of impression but keep going.
i know, i also trying to rank on google, but for me it's way harder now. I'm collecting some traffic but not so much.
 
Nice, how many ranking sites so far?
One thing is ranking, the other thing is generating traffic and sales.
All sites are indexed, but new ones not generating much traffic so far. For example if sites generates 10-20 visitors per day, so the sale can be 1 in a week or so...
For example this site is picking up
Screenshot 2026-08-01 at 21-10-41 Search Performance - Bing Webmaster Tools.png
This one running steady:
Screenshot 2026-08-01 at 21-12-10 Search Performance - Bing Webmaster Tools.png

this one so for not going well but you never know :)
Screenshot 2026-08-01 at 21-14-00 Search Performance - Bing Webmaster Tools.png
 
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You really motivated me to start an amazon affiliate site, got the domain and hosting already. Hoping to have 50% of your success
 
You really motivated me to start an amazon affiliate site, got the domain and hosting already. Hoping to have 50% of your success
I don't think i have any success yet, but only work can bring results, so trying to make it happen :)
 
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