Amazon Affiliate/Yahoo Answers Method

I am impressed by this idea.

jschope, please clarify:

1) What exactly is the link you should put into your yahoo answer. Is it the direct affiliate link, or is it the link to your money site? Will these links stick, or is it a battle against time as the administrators gradually remove the links?

2) Can you clarify what it is you need to do to get your yahoo accounts to level 2.
 
Is it against Amazons rules to post ref links on Yahoo Answers? I need t know that because i dont wanna get banned by amazon

i dunno about amazon, but it will probably flag up as spam on yahoo
 
I am impressed by this idea.

jschope, please clarify:

1) What exactly is the link you should put into your yahoo answer. Is it the direct affiliate link, or is it the link to your money site? Will these links stick, or is it a battle against time as the administrators gradually remove the links?

2) Can you clarify what it is you need to do to get your yahoo accounts to level 2.

just join and take a look, seriously its all laid out on the site
 
The link you put in is directly to the Amazon product, but after you've turned it into an affiliate link. If you're already signed up as an affiliate, you'll know what I'm talking about.

I did this for about 6 months and never had any trouble with Amazon or YA. You're just recommending a product to someone who wants to know where they can get it, and there's nothing wrong with that.

The level 2 rule is new, so I just found out about that. It's really easy to get. If you're using proxies, you should be able to get level 2 in a day or two. It's just a matter of earning points in the YA system, and the amount of points you need for level 2 isn't much.

In the meantime, can you not just cloak the link? I've never done it before, so I don't know how that works, but that might do the trick.
 
Also, I've never had mine flagged as spam. It's not really even spam, anyway, if you're answering legit questions (and there are enough real questions on there that you don't even have to use proxies or post fake questions.)

Your posts should look something like this:

"I got the Rebel XT camera for Christmas, and it beat my old camera by a long shot. I love this thing!" Then post the details of the product, blah blah. And then just put an affiliate link to the product afterwards, saying something like, "And you can get it on Amazon cheap."

Just try to make it look like you actually know what you're talking about and are speaking from personal experience.
 
Good news!!

For those of you at Level 1 that are bummed your links won't work, when you hit Level 2, all your old links start working. So, go ahead and still *carefully* spam your links at Level 1, hit Level 2 and bingo, they go live.
 
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How many yahoo answer posts did u have to make a day in order to make between $30-$70/day? and how many days did it take to start making profit from day you started posting answers?
 
I used to do this. If enough time and effort is invested, you could make some easy money.
 
This probably won't make anyone a ton of cash, and it might have been mentioned before, but I thought I'd share because it made me 30-70 bucks a day back when I used this method.

First, you'll need an Amazon affiliate account and a Yahoo Answers account.

The great thing about Yahoo Answers pages is that they often rank high in Google and they stick for a long time.

So, do an advanced search in Yahoo Answers for questions like, "Where can I buy" or "Where do I get" or "I want to buy" or "Does anyone know here I can get a", etc. These are people who are ready to buy a product, but they can't find it. They're normally just completely computer illiterate.

Now go to Amazon and find the product they're looking for. Make an affiliate link for it and post it as an answer. Not only will they click on your link and buy it, but when someone searches Google with the same question, you'll make sales when they click your link, too.

Also, did you know that whenever someone clicks on your Amazon affiliate link, you get commission on anything they buy on Amazon in the next 24 hours?

So let's say a teenager clicks on your link to go check out a Twilight journal or something, and then they get off the computer. Their dad comes in the room, turns on the computer, and goes to Amazon to buy a brand new $3,000 camera. You'll get commission for that.

Speaking of big ticket items, try to find questions on YA about what the best kind of camera or TV or camcorder to buy is. Then find a review, copy it into your answer, and put up an affiliate link to the item. Huge commissions to be made!


I love the method and it works. The problem is that amazon only pays 4% in commision. That's why I stay far far away from them.
 
Is there an alternative to Amazon that pays more commission?
E-Gay perhaps? ()__()
 
Thanks. I also tried this method and it works out godd for me. But it's a lot of work beacuse it takes a lot of time to generate the links and post them on the right questions. I think you have to find an alternative to yahoo clever because to many people are using this metod on JC.
 
I just watched a video on youtube about some guy who mentioned that amazon doesnt allow commisions from direct linking anymore on PPC, Does that mean that you cant also use Yahoo Answers for direct linking??

here is the youtube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWqhdBb-YVA
 
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i know direct linking via PPC is not allowed, but anyone know if direct linking via other forms is allowed still?
 
Amazon disallowed PPC because Amazon internal PPC team wanted to manage that stream of traffic. Amazon decided to move that business in-house as the cost of traffic was lower when managed in-house.

However, forums should be ok with them. Its a good method though.
 
Amazon disallowed PPC because Amazon internal PPC team wanted to manage that stream of traffic. Amazon decided to move that business in-house as the cost of traffic was lower when managed in-house.

However, forums should be ok with them. Its a good method though.
so we can post directly still, but just not on PPC?
 
To answer your question, yes, you can still direct link. However, when it comes to stuff like Google Adwords, you are no longer allowed to post a link that says Amazon or whatever. The reason is because it does not make sense to compete against.... well.... Amazon. If you wanted to post an Amazon Affiliate link on a message board though or something, it still works. Trust me.
 
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