Bing Ads + Amazon Affiliate Case Study

Hey guys... This is something I've wanted to try for a long time now, Bing ads + Amazon affiliate program to earn some side money. Just never got around to it.

What inspired me to try it was Elliot305 thread here https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/bing-method.967347/

So using the method above I decided to twist it up and promote Amazon products. I just finished setting it up about 30 minutes ago.

Here's my Amazon stats currently:



I don't promote this account so all future stats will be from Bing ads doing this case study.

On Bing ads I'm investing $10.00 and anything over $10.00 that I earn will be a success. I chose about 75 high volume search terms to start out with and I'm running 11 different ads targeting popular products. I'm not using any brand terms. I am just using generic terms for example if I was selling a Bose Suround Sound Stereo System I would simply refer to it as a High Def Surround Sound Stereo system. I'm doing this so I have no issues from Bing. I'm not great at writing ads.

I'm not going to give away my exact ad copy or keywords but I will tell you in my ads I'm using buying trigger keywords. There's lots of them and you can easily look them up.

As for my cost per click, Just like in Elliot305's thread I'm bidding really low. I'll end up paying between $ .01 - .07 per click.

If I do make money in this case study I plan on adding more keywords and creating more ads. Right now I'm only targeting 1 high dollar item. My other items don't cost more than $60 and as low as $4

The part that I'm most excited about this case study is getting somebody who will buy multiple things and I think the cookie duration is 30 days so we will see how that goes.

I will update this thread with screen shots at least once a day to show my progress and tell you my Bing ads spend and clicks.

It will be interesting so stay tuned.


https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/bing-method.967347/

Good luck mate

can't wait to hear more. Do you think it's doable with adwords?

Jure321 said:

can't wait to hear more. Do you think it's doable with adwords?

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With adwords I'm not sure. They are more strict but if this goes well I'm going to try on my Adwords account.

Yeah and you probably gotta do more in depth research to find less competitive ones cause everyone is using adwords.

this is interesting,

Amazon cookie duration is 24 hours.

Good luck.

rinti said:

Amazon cookie duration is 24 hours.

Good luck.

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Yeah, I was afraid it's 24 hours....that sucks...

waiting for the rest , and amazon 24 hrs only now

Very interesting! If you could keep doing updates, that would be great
Good luck!!

interesting

Are you bidding on exact match or broad? Amazon's low commission rate coupled with a short cookie means you need to target higher ticket items than you're targeting. You need to make up the difference on the people who just aren't going to convert.

Just some information that I gathered. I promoted products linking from youtube comments. I never really sold the products I promoted. But people purchased all kinds of stuff from the links I posted. It just seemed like if you get people to Amazon, you will get some sales no matter what. Just because people are always buying from Amazon. Hope you make some good cash doing this!

everythingred said:

Are you bidding on exact match or broad? Amazon's low commission rate coupled with a short cookie means you need to target higher ticket items than you're targeting. You need to make up the difference on the people who just aren't going to convert.

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I'm bidding on broad, phrase and exact for each keyword.

philly3 said:

Just some information that I gathered. I promoted products linking from youtube comments. I never really sold the products I promoted. But people purchased all kinds of stuff from the links I posted. It just seemed like if you get people to Amazon, you will get some sales no matter what. Just because people are always buying from Amazon. Hope you make some good cash doing this!

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Same thing when I've promoted Amazon products, only rarely have I sold what I was promoting.

The days of 30 days cookie are long gone. But, nevertheless, best of luck. Following your progress.

Are your bing ads linked to your youtube, amazon affiliate site, or directly to amazon using your tag URLs?

waterworks said:

Are your bing ads linked to your youtube, amazon affiliate site, or directly to amazon using your tag URLs?

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I'm direct linking to the product with my affiliate link. When you do this on Bing Ads, it shows as Amazon.com which is nice. It doesn't show your long link.

WORK@HOME said:

I'm direct linking to the product with my affiliate link. When you do this on Bing Ads, it shows as Amazon.com which is nice. It doesn't show your long link.

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Does Amazon allow this kind of traffic?

Jayder said:

Does Amazon allow this kind of traffic?

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I don't see why they wouldn't as long as you don't use brand names.