[Case Study] 3 Month Amazon Affiliate Website | 400+$ in November

Where you heard about using Payoneer can lead to Amazon ban?
I live in Indonesia and were using Payoneer to receive my Amazon commission and have not facing any issue until now.
Yet when I changed the payment method they emailed me that I can not use it since I am no from US but i ignore it and they send my commission every month.
 
Hi sergey007,
great to hear that this kind of stuff work.
I just started a journey to promote amazon products too. (blackhatworld_com/blackhat-seo/my-journey-discussions/721934-journey-generate-solid-long-term-profit.html )

So i have a few questions i think you can answer me:

1) What means PBN?
2) I found a niche which has about 800 search requests over google and only one competitor. You think it is worth to give it a try?
3) I want to create more than one project with different amazon products. Do you think it is better to buy for each project one domain, or is it possible to own only one domain and use sub-domains for each kind of product?

Thanks for your time!
 
Where you heard about using Payoneer can lead to Amazon ban?
I live in Indonesia and were using Payoneer to receive my Amazon commission and have not facing any issue until now.
Yet when I changed the payment method they emailed me that I can not use it since I am no from US but i ignore it and they send my commission every month.

Hi. For example:

1. http://community.payoneer.com/discussion/comment/16369/#Comment_16369 (read whole comment, especially the quote and paragraph ending with "too bad"). You break whole 3 clauses - especially 3rd one.
And even more importantly - look at this comment's quote: http://community.payoneer.com/discussion/comment/16682/#Comment_16682
And this one: http://community.payoneer.com/discussion/comment/16780/#Comment_16780

Don't get me wrong, it's nice that you still receive. But how much more time do you have until ban? I'd be happy if there was no ban at all...
When did you set up your DD settings last time?

2. I won't post link here because you don't read Russian. But the point there is that a lot members who have been using Payoneer at the time of policy change (and consequently had DD option in use) were banned during policy change in Dec 2012.
But look, here's one more evidence of that: http://community.payoneer.com/discussion/comment/16811/#Comment_16811

3. I can quote more cases (probably) but I'm lazy to google it now.

What's your idea about that?

PS. Yeah, BTW. Im not sure right now (since I can't login at my day-work place) but I kind of remember that I even can't choose DD from payment options... Gotta check that though..
Upd: checked - I can choose.
 
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Hmmm...I am not sure about the Ban, But I was told that i can't receive direct deposit being an international affiliate but I however went ahead and effected the changes and fogotten all about it. At one time I went back and reverted back my payment option to check and to my surprise, i received a direct deposit into my my Payoneer account at the end of the month.
What I know if that Payoneer works with Amazon....But what i however dont know is if affiliates will get banned for using it.
BTW, i recently went back and selected DD as my payment option in my account.
Hope that helps.
 
3. I can quote more cases (probably) but I'm lazy to google it now.

What's your idea about that?

PS. Yeah, BTW. Im not sure right now (since I can't login at my day-work place) but I kind of remember that I even can't choose DD from payment options... Gotta check that though..

I have also read about account suspensions in 2013, however, most of these account were using epayservice(cannot post links). The service provided one bank account to their customers who wanted to receive money from Amazon, however it was abused by carders and people who used stolen credit cards to make orders online. As a result, amazon banned all accounts associated with the epayservice and their bank account and some other similar services.

Many people on BHW have been using payoneer for a long time without problems and I was also recommended to start using it. At least i will no longer have any problems with stolen checks.

BTW, amazon has enabled DD in payment options a few months later after mass susensions of affiliate accounts, right now it is available.

Hi sergey007,
great to hear that this kind of stuff work.
I just started a journey to promote amazon products too. ()

So i have a few questions i think you can answer me:

1) What means PBN?
2) I found a niche which has about 800 search requests over google and only one competitor. You think it is worth to give it a try?
3) I want to create more than one project with different amazon products. Do you think it is better to buy for each project one domain, or is it possible to own only one domain and use sub-domains for each kind of product?

Thanks for your time!

1. PBN means private blog network
2. I think you should find more keywords in this niche before starting an affiliate website. Try to find at least 10 keywords that have low competition and 1000+ monthly searches.
3. It is better to buy two domains. If you want to save money, you can use the same hosting or even add addon domains in your cpanel.


Interesting read. I have few question aswell

1. PBN. I'm new to PBN thing. You said You have 13 blogs. I wonder what are they about?
If You are selling hoovers on your money site, does it mean my PBN should be about hoovers? Cause it wouldn't make any sense to put an article about hoover on travel blog and link to my money site. By the way, are you linking to inner pages or domain?

2. How big are your PBN blogs? I mean, how many pages approx. one blog has

3. You said You commenting blogs. What do you use as an anchor text?

4. Your PBN is on shared hosting, so all these blogs has the same IP. Dont you think its a big footprint? Are they on same platform(wordpress?)?

Thanks

1. Each blog is about the initial niche of the domain. For example, I have several pbn blogs about cars and several blogs about art. Talking about link relevancy, relevant links are very powerful, however, non-relevant links are alco good and give nice ranking boost. At the end of the day, you can always connect any niches. For examle, if my blog is about cars and affiliate website is about camping equipmentm I can always write an article about what cars are most popular among campers and so on.
2. Each blog contains about 10 pages, will add more this month.
3. I never use keyword in my anchor text. Most of times I use url, brand names, click here, website and so on.
4. PBN is currently located on two shared hostings with separate C-class IPs. Using the same IP is a huge footprint, as you already said. Concerning the CMS of the blogs, some of them use wordpress, some of them use HTML template I am also planning to add several Joomla blogs to the network.

Think you missed my question .

What sort of content do you put on your sites..does it have to be really high quality or is just decent ok? I guess you really just want to get people from your site to amazon so that is the main thing.

Also do you write a few hundred words on the homepage or just populate it with individual product reviews?

Thanks.
I try to put really high quality content on my websites that not only converts visitors into buyers, but also provides them with information that they have been looking for. I never try just to forward people to amazon, proper interlinking and high content make my bounce rate about 45-60% and this is very good for informative websites.

Homepage contains about 700 words, however, I link it with product reviews.
 
Ok, guys, it is time to share my November results.

I was too optimistic about the website when I told that it may make about 800 usd. The beginning of the month was more active than the end of the month and, as a result, I made only 567$. Good news are, that the amount of traffic has doubled by the end of this month and at the moment I get about 200 UV/day. Hope next month the website will manage to make 800$. I will keep you updated.
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BTW, amazon has enabled DD in payment options a few months later after mass susensions of affiliate accounts, right now it is available.

Well, yeah, they added. I assume that the warning about forbidden DD for international users is to have a "reason" to ban them next time IF anything bad helps with payoneer or some other payment cut-corner intermediate. Well, I hope it won't...

Good luck to you Sergey with your journey.
 
Sergey I have read your thread before too, nice job on those amazon earnings. You mentioned you live in Estonia, but were born in Russia? Just curious what made you to come to Estonia and what city do you live in here?
 
Wonderful method. Thanks a lot for this. Seriously, i never though Blog Commenting is still strong.
 
You said:
...As I mentioned above, there are several more websites that use the same PBN...

Does it mean that all your money sites are spread on different hosting(or at least they have different IPs) and you don't use any g0ogle products(Adsense,GWT etc)?
Otherwise it would be a footprint.
please explain :)
 
Do use Amazon affiliate products only ? Is it possible to use several sites or programs at the same time? Do you need a big team to work on this business or you can do it on your own? thanks in advance
 
$550 /month is not a solid Estonian salary. The average salary (neto) is around 770€ that's $948.

oh shit! Didn't know that ^^

well, i guess it'll cover the rent money at least xD
 
Is your niche/products seasonal or more evergreen? Just wondering if the time of year is adding to your quick income growth.
 
You said:


Does it mean that all your money sites are spread on different hosting(or at least they have different IPs) and you don't use any g0ogle products(Adsense,GWT etc)?
Otherwise it would be a footprint.
please explain
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Yes, moreover, I use different IPs with all my websites and never use one IP twice. I never use adsense or GWT, many people say that it is ok, but i am too paranoid =)


Is your niche/products seasonal or more evergreen? Just wondering if the time of year is adding to your quick income growth.

I try to choose products that are evergreen, however, some websites that I have promote products that have nice demand increase in December and I see good results right now.
 
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