Amazon - Hitting Hard & Fast...

Here is the amazon reply i just received...

We do appreciate your concerns regarding our Operating Agreement. Unfortunately, we are unable to provide you with specific advice in response to your question.
I would suggest contacting a legal professional if you have any further questions of this nature.


Now, what this tells me is that NO they did not approve. They simply tried to word it in a way that would leave me some hope of getting paid by them so that I would continue to send them traffic/sales and then they can shut me out at the last minute and keep my commissions.

In case you are wondering how/why I have come to this conclusion... It's simple.

Their message told me that they would not look at my site/system to determine if it was compliant, yet, as we all know, when payday comes around, they will indeed do the very thing that they just now told me they couldnt/wouldnt do.

They were as clear as mud, but lucky for me, I wear my mud-goggles at all times.

No way are they(or any other big company) ever going to write and say "approved" or anything like that when that would provide people with legal recourse when A decides to kill ur account later and not pay you.

Better to just do it and ask for permission never.
 
Couple questions for you guys

1 Does youtube or amazon not like direct linking amazon products in youtube description?

2 Would it be better for me to create a product review niche site for each individual product, or better for me to create a single review niche site for many products in a certain category like cameras or something?
 
Great blog post guys! LOL I spent a good hour or two reading through this post and taking notes. . . only to get to the end where xoskillet says he doesn't think he's going to get paid!!! :D

I actually don't think there will be a problem. But when will we know if they pay out or not?

Thanks again for all the great info everyone!
 
@xoskillet

Your thread is very informative, i like the things you are promoting and also the way. Can you tell how to promote your youtube videos.

Do you buy youtube likes or something in that line.

can you tell us.
 
I actually sent a support request to amazon asking them to send their security & compliance team to my site and go over it thoroughly and either confirm that i am in compliance or tell me that i am not in compliance, because it takes 3 months to get your first check from them, and i'm not going to sit here and work 3 solid months only to find out on payday that they had some issue with me and have decided to deny payment.

Amazon will never tell you shit. If you get banned, they will not tell you why. If you are approved after a review . . they will not notify you of this.

Honestly they don't review things under a certain threshold. If you make over x amount they will review your site manually and either ban you or not. Prior to that, nothing happens.
 
Amazon will never tell you shit. If you get banned, they will not tell you why. If you are approved after a review . . they will not notify you of this.

Honestly they don't review things under a certain threshold. If you make over x amount they will review your site manually and either ban you or not. Prior to that, nothing happens.

Anyone know what the threshold is??
 
since youtube and maybe amazon dont like direct amazon links in youtube descriptions, would it be ok to put a link in the video description to ur site that then redirects the clicker to the affiliate page?
 
subbing to this.
i use to run a few sites that was like this mixing in some of my own twists
and want to get back into it...
 
Yo green titanium, I think you should throw some of us dogs a bone and share one of your "twists" with us. Not all of your twists, just one. . . you know, to prove you have a twist ;) lol jk
 
Yo green titanium, I think you should throw some of us dogs a bone and share one of your "twists" with us. Not all of your twists, just one. . . you know, to prove you have a twist ;) lol jk

I seriously doubt he'll reveal his twist...
 
/blackhat-seo/other-affiliate-programs/429970-amazon-drop-ship-wp-plugins-old-school.html

That's what I just started, then I found this thread about how great Amazon is. It seems as though the recent Amazon API update (Sep 2010-ish) is restricting to 2,000 queries per hour... and unless the WP plugin for Amazon that I was using is very inefficient, then there's no way I can go into production with a public affiliate site that actually gets traffic to just get block from any new queries...

-CM
 
What about use of images in Youtube videos? As you link to a domain, can you not get sued by the product manufacturers?

I know it's promotional but you're exposing yourself to a lot of lawyers and it's easy for one of them to want a piece of you and harrass you into settling out of court.
 
I have had some success with Amazon using Facebook Fan Pages... I would target a small niche, and then sell related products on an Iframe tab. For instance, Woodworking niche. Set up a fan page called "I Love Woodworking" or similar. Set up some ads so you get targeted fans. Then set up an iFrame tab with the Amazon products.

This works pretty well, especially when you have a large, ACTIVE page. It has made me a few hundred dollars a month in the past with 3-4 pages.

Yeah
i saw few facebook fan page with great looking landing page and huge real follower who always talked about that product regularly and studied them to start my own.
really that's a great idea to sell your affiliate product from social Media.
Easily and having fun
 
In your personal opinion (or anyone else on the thread), do you think it's worth buying a pre-packaged amazon site from one of the services offered here? Although, if I had the time, I would just make it myself, but I figure I could just outsource since it's not that expensive, and use the time to actually fine tune it with quality content, tweak it to your own liking etc.
 
Quite an interesting read!
I too have had good success with Amazon in the past (and my sites are still ticking over bank every month, with no work.)

It's my opinion that Amazon is a sheer numbers game for decent profits. I'm sure you can make better money targeting this and that, but for lots of easy money, you just want numbers. Amazon's cookie is only 24 hours, so you just have to get as many people 'thru the door' as it were.

I'm recently getting back into Amazon, with a custom tool I've been preparing for a few weeks now, It's almost finished. If anybody is interested in Amazon team work (not JV), Id be up for sharing ideas/methods.

Please don't PM me if you don't have any value to add!

Lets make some money!
 
Hey XOSkillet, I know things are up in the air about whether Amazon is going to let your technique continue as is or claim it's a violation of their TOS, but how have your numbers been based on the technique you showed us since the thread was started? Did you continue to market yourself the way we've all been reading? Or did you just let it sit until you find out how Amazon will treat your site? If so, what kind of conversions have you had doing nothing since the first few video's posted?
 
i kept ramping it up.... and a few days ago they dropped the ban hammer on me. Ha!
 
It's almost like you literally asked for it, haha. Bad luck man. I'm working on some twists of stuff I've seen here, kind of keen to see how it goes.
 
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