[Advanced Guide] How I make Amazon Affiliate Sites

Great thread, very easy to follow because of the layout. Bookmarked to come back to in a couple of weeks.

lightningblitz said:

I do not quite get your question.

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What i mean is when your site is done, can you ask someone from Amazon to review your site if it is okay within Amazon's ToS.

jakal2001 said:

Great thread, I have a question;

When you talk about your Web 2.0's - do you build and write them yourself? or do you outsource it with spun content?

I have done cheap spun articles I bought on BHW, spun and edited myself and I have outsourced content from writers mainly from BHW.

I stick with Article Hunter Gatherer now. I have my VAs find content, check if it is unique and then post it to a Web 2.0s. I have not personally used the tool in a while but my VAs get a lot more done with it.

Also do you create a unique account for each web 2.0 or have one account listing all of your web 2.0 sites?

Unique accounts for each. I do not have more than one account registered per email because I am cautious, overly.

Last question, does it matter if this web 2.0 isnt indexed?

That does matter. You need it indexed.

Thanks again

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Replied above in quotes.

Jaydee1988 said:

What i mean is when your site is done, can you ask someone from Amazon to review your site if it is okay within Amazon's ToS.

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I am not aware of any option to contact Amazon in advance to ensure your site passes TOS.

I believe you can just contact support and ask them to take a run through of your site and confirm from their end that everything seems okay.

That works, but their word that your site is good only holds true until you make changes. And Amazon has 2 lines of support regarding sites following their ToS. They have their normal support that give you the cookie cutter replies and are told to follow the book by the word and nothing more. But then there is a 2nd line of Amazon site reviewers that dig really deep into your site when they think you are up to something.

TL;DR: send a message to support asking them to take a look at your site.

I just want to give you a Big Thank You

Great thread, indeed. Thank you for sharing.

A question - how do you (if ever) handle geotargeting, i.e. send users to different Amazons, like .de, .uk etc?

hi lightningblitz

Since this is my exact guide I will share all the juicy details on what I exactly do. Step one is foundational link building. This includes Web 2.0s which target my home page and inner pages with naked URL.

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After I have my foundation I check to see where I rank so far. I then target a single KW at a time. I start with the KW closest to number one. I build a handful of Web 2.0s (I have posted several times how I build web 2.0s and target long tail KWs with them) pointing to each page.

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How you structure the links to home page and subpages for Web 2.0s?

Do you add two links in the same post (one to homepage and one to a subpage) on comforters.wordpress.com?
Or
Do you add two links in two different posts (one to homepage and one to a subpage) on comforters.wordpress.com?
Or
Do you add one link to home page on comforters.wordpress.com while the other link to a subpage on duvets.wordpress.com?

Thanks bro! I'm defo going to get started with Amazon. Now that Jared doesn't sell kW who would you suggest to get kWs from?

Thanks for another great guide

My amazon sites have a CTR of about 30% to 50%. I use only one comparison table on my money pages, and around 50% of the visitors click through to amazon. And the conversion rate varies between 2% to 9%, although it's rarely at 9% and usually around 4% to 5 %

I use only about 5 affiliate links on each of my money pages because I am paranoid Google will punish a page if it has "too many" affiliate links. The problem is, I do not know how many affiliate links per page will be seen by Google as "too many".

I sure would like to know how many affiliate links you use per page? My affiliate links are all text only. I do not make images clickable as I am scared that will increase the number of affiliate links on my pages.

have gone through the whole info thanks

bignose said:

Great thread, indeed. Thank you for sharing.

A question - how do you (if ever) handle geotargeting, i.e. send users to different Amazons, like .de, .uk etc?

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I do not even handle Geo Targeting so I cant answer.

zoewarrior said:

hi lightningblitz





How you structure the links to home page and subpages for Web 2.0s?

Do you add two links in the same post (one to homepage and one to a subpage) on comforters.wordpress.com?
Or
Do you add two links in two different posts (one to homepage and one to a subpage) on comforters.wordpress.com?
Or
Do you add one link to home page on comforters.wordpress.com while the other link to a subpage on duvets.wordpress.com?

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I build different Web 2.0s to use to point at both home page and inner page.

AdeebH said:

Thanks bro! I'm defo going to get started with Amazon. Now that Jared doesn't sell kW who would you suggest to get kWs from?

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My honest advice would be to learn how to do KW research. I never got good and because of that I had to spend a lot of money with Jared and more to rank harder KWs.

Shree said:

Thanks for another great guide

My amazon sites have a CTR of about 30% to 50%. I use only one comparison table on my money pages, and around 50% of the visitors click through to amazon. And the conversion rate varies between 2% to 9%, although it's rarely at 9% and usually around 4% to 5 %

I use only about 5 affiliate links on each of my money pages because I am paranoid Google will punish a page if it has "too many" affiliate links. The problem is, I do not know how many affiliate links per page will be seen by Google as "too many".

I sure would like to know how many affiliate links you use per page? My affiliate links are all text only. I do not make images clickable as I am scared that will increase the number of affiliate links on my pages.

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I use a text to link ratio. I shoot one link for about 500 words.

I have text links for each product, comparison table, images which link to the product and I am testing 'buy on amazon' buttons now. but with your conversion rate I would not be too concerned, you are doing well.

You mention you use easy table for the comparison tables. I am not really able to get the hang of it since I find it difficult to work with code. It seems to be a pretty simple one also. Can you change colors and make it attractive.

Can you put a sample of the code you use for building your comparison table so that we can use and edit it?

Shree said:

Thanks for another great guide

I use only about 5 affiliate links on each of my money pages because I am paranoid Google will punish a page if it has "too many" affiliate links. The problem is, I do not know how many affiliate links per page will be seen by Google as "too many".

I sure would like to know how many affiliate links you use per page? My affiliate links are all text only. I do not make images clickable as I am scared that will increase the number of affiliate links on my pages.

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I use 9 on each page with around 700 words and it seems fine.

Might be worth a bit of experimenting to see, worse case you go down in rankings and you just remove the links to get back where you were.

you've not made a post for 10 days now, I don't find it acceptable lol

oblivion19 said:

You mention you use easy table for the comparison tables. I am not really able to get the hang of it since I find it difficult to work with code. It seems to be a pretty simple one also. Can you change colors and make it attractive.

Can you put a sample of the code you use for building your comparison table so that we can use and edit it?

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Sure, I will make a demo:


Just copy and paste product line two ad plug in your details. Those are the exact dimensions I use and the information on the table is what I use as well.

I do suggest plugging in an image for stars and not listing 5 / 5 and I also suggest considering other useful information such as shipping dimensions, item weight, item color, etc. But that is niche dependent so I decided to not include it in the mock up.

For the 'small size' comment, you need to add the image code for a small image, not a medium or large, or it messes everything up (Or how it looks - I did it this way a while before realizing how it looked and I had to fix it).

BallsLikePlanets said:

I use 9 on each page with around 700 words and it seems fine.

Might be worth a bit of experimenting to see, worse case you go down in rankings and you just remove the links to get back where you were.

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Thank you for chiming in!

I recently added buy on amazon links to some sites and did not get a drop in serps. This pushed me over my one link per 500 words soft rule so I image we can get away with a lot more than I suggest.

1morenoob said:

you've not made a post for 10 days now, I don't find it acceptable lol

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Ha! Threads, no. Posts? I have tried to get around town as often as I can.

Could you go over the picking a domain name more in detail?

Do you look for expired domain with a history of decent backlinks?

Do your domain have the main keyword in them?

Or do you target random expired domain with great backlinks history?

TIA

Hey lightningblitz you skipped my question on page two right before the shenanigans went down lol

How many links per page on a review site would you deem safe? What if its about listing top 10s and all?

Some really great bits of information shared here. Just one question however (if you don't mind answering) - In the section titled "Bonus advice" you mention that good Web 2.0's are expensive to build. Having seen several interpretations and permutations of Web 2.0's in the marketplace and discussed in guides, it would be great to hear a little more about what you consider to be a good Web 2.0 set up. If anyone wants to answer for that matter I'd really appreciate the information.

punkcash said:

Could you go over the picking a domain name more in detail?

Do you look for expired domain with a history of decent backlinks?

Do your domain have the main keyword in them?

Or do you target random expired domain with great backlinks history?

TIA

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It depends, honestly.

Generally I look for the best domain possible and make a site in that niche.

For amazon sites, I find the best KW possible. Once I have the KW I either make an EMD or pick an aged domain in the niche with the best metrics possible (And back links).

Depending on if I pick an EMD or aged domain depends if I can find a great aged domain and how many KWs I have. I normally go with an Aged domain and make a mid sized site.

erickishere said:

Hey lightningblitz you skipped my question on page two right before the shenanigans went down lol

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Sorry! Found it and will answer:

"Do you set up a table for every "best (product)" keyword?

Reason why I asked because I have a site reaching 500 pages and each post reviews 3 products with a PROS/CONS on each of them.

-Amazon links are placed in the title of the products I'm reviewing
-CTA link

That's it, no table."

Unfortunately, yes.

Each page of mine reviews at least two products, and I do a single table including all products on the page.

If you look at 'hot' review sites in SERPs most have little content and a LOT of products in tables.

With a site that big I would add a table and some 'buy on amazon' links. My goal is to have a user click to Amazon. Unless I copy amazons site word for word I will never have a site that converts as well as Amazon. So I just want to get my affiliate code in the game and move on.

kerryrease said:

How many links per page on a review site would you deem safe? What if its about listing top 10s and all?

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I shoot for 500 words per link. You can get away with a LOT more (I am testing more) but I never had a problem when I had a lot of content per aff link.

utterlyadrift25 said:

Some really great bits of information shared here. Just one question however (if you don't mind answering) - In the section titled "Bonus advice" you mention that good Web 2.0's are expensive to build. Having seen several interpretations and permutations of Web 2.0's in the marketplace and discussed in guides, it would be great to hear a little more about what you consider to be a good Web 2.0 set up. If anyone wants to answer for that matter I'd really appreciate the information.

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I have at least one Web 2.0 thread.

I see three tiers of Web 2.0s.

Tier one is Web 2.0s that look like a money site. Contact us, about us, location and privacy pages. Possible email opt in. Lots of images. Videos embed. Custom widgets. Unique content ranking for very easy KWs. Every option changed (Theme, logo, header, etc)

Then you have tier two, or what SEOs call great. You get images in each article, content is niche specific, a few relevant articles on each, most stock options changed, potential for a logo. These also normally have privacy and about us pages.

Then you get tier three, or the 'basic' web 2.0. This is a generic theme, not all options changed, missing contact pages. Spun content (Although spun well). Most likely no images.

I always shoot for tier two or tier one Web 2.0s. It is more about longevity for the most part. If it looks like a real site it should never go down and may pick up links on its own.