[eCommerce] First Time at Amazon Affiliation

sikandar said:

So many people who have purchased WooZone have commented on the sales page about the problems they are facing after upgrading the plugin. Why you are still going for this plugin?

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i didn't run into any issues at all. Imports all my products and adds my ref links. Even checked if it tracked it. No idea what these guys are having trouble with.

[Day 4] April 24, 2016
I didn't have much time today to work on this project, I was busy moving back from school.

SEO
I'm going to build a few 301 URL Redirects to the ones I built yesterday, but will most likely finish it all tomorrow since there's going to be a lot to build. Other then that I did do my daily maintenance on GSA SER, checked which links are still alive with Backlink Monitor (web2.0, edu, profiles, and 301 redirects).

Social Media
I'm going to tweak the settings tomorrow again on FollowLiker for my accounts

Stats
Twitter - 282 Followers
Pinterest - 136 Followers
Instagram - 268 Followers

Thanks for sharing your lucrative journey. I think newbies have a great chance to take inspiration from these journey.
Though running Affiliate program in eCommerce is challenging but if you are able to continue it then must you'll able to make a hard cash.
Here, You have argued about few tools: GSA SER, GSA Proxy Scraper, GSA Captcha Breaker etc. Please describe about the importance of these tools/ why are you using these tools. That would be pretty helpful information for the newbies and others who don't know perfect use of these tools. What about your total costs for these journey purpose? Please share with us.
Already checked your 3 days increment. That's hopeful. Please keep update in a continuous way. Must I'll comeback to these thread.

SEMWORLD said:

Thanks for sharing your lucrative journey. I think newbies have a great chance to take inspiration from these journey.
Though running Affiliate program in eCommerce is challenging but if you are able to continue it then must you'll able to make a hard cash.
Here, You have argued about few tools: GSA SER, GSA Proxy Scraper, GSA Captcha Breaker etc. Please describe about the importance of these tools/ why are you using these tools. That would be pretty helpful information for the newbies and others who don't know perfect use of these tools. What about your total costs for these journey purpose? Please share with us.
Already checked your 3 days increment. That's hopeful. Please keep update in a continuous way. Must I'll comeback to these thread.

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Sure thing, I don't mind explaining why I use these tools

GSA SER, GSA Proxy Scraper, GSA Captcha Breaker
These three tools work GREAT individually and when used together you'll save tons of time and money. Nothing can build links like GSA SER can (that I know of). Unfortunately, this means that you have to know what the hell you're doing with it or you'll do a lot more harm than good with your money site.

I use GSA Proxy to scrape public proxies that I use in GSA SER and some other tools that burn through lots of proxies. I have it set up to scan for new proxies, test them, and then export it. GSA SER then automatically grabs the export and tests it again and uses those that pass. I save monthly expenses on proxies this way. GSA Proxy scraper can also now filter urls before GSA SER uses it and can check a list of domains (pretty good for those scraping expired proxies).

GSA Captcha breaker is a huge money saver, so far in this project alone I've saved $800 dollars in captchas. If you can't break captchas then you'll be building 0 links with GSA SER (or very little). I use another service to break more advance captchas as well.

RankerX
GSA SER sucks at building web2.0's. I like to use this tool to build a PBN of web2.0's and it helps organize it very easily. I can add new articles to it with just a few clicks and i'll have tons of new web2.0's. You can even import existing web2.0 you have. Very handy tool and works very well with GSA SER.

ScrapeBox
A very VERY useful tool. It can scrape for domains, keywords, web2.0's, comments, and etc. I personally use it to resolve expired domains to see if they can be registered and filter through a list of urls (dups, tld's, etc.). This tool has tons of other uses, but unfortunately I don't use them.

Backlink Monitor
If you're tier link building, I highly recommend this tool. It checks the health of the links (if there's an anchor, if the page is broken, if the page is index, or if it's not even tiered) and it generates it in a nice fancy report (if you have clients, this will be handy). With a click of a button it will remove all those bad links and I then export those links back in GSA SER so i'm not building links to nothing.

SEO Content Machine & WordAI
Some of you may not know but wordAI is a content spinner, arguably one of the best on the market right now. I use these for all my web2.0s, EDUs, profile, and GSA SER projects. Combined with SEO Content Machine I can generate content for any keyword(so far), set the length, and spin in images, videos, and even other links.

SEO Content Machine also has a feature for uploading posts to your WordPress blogs (nice little tool for people managing they're PBN or even web2.0s).


My total monthly cost for this (not including one time payment for some of these tools) is around $315~ USD.
This includes some things not mentioned like, Private Proxies, Captcha Services (ones that captcha breaker can't solve that well), PBN hosts, lists for GSA, and VPS.

[Day 5] April 25, 2016

Starting to get 3 - 10 UV's / day, but nothing has converted yet. I'm still trying to figure out how to track Amazon outbound clicks with it but having a tough time with it. Luckily Amazon report has been tracking these clicks at least. Hoping to see at least one purchase soon.

Google Analytics are telling me what people are searching on my site and I've been importing those products to my site, so there's that going on for me.

SEO
Almost done building 301's to my 301s. Finished building ones for my edu's and profiles; half way done the ones for my web2.0's. Some of my links are getting indexed now (hoping the rest start soon). Going to be leaving it alone for a few weeks and let GSA SER do what it does best.

I'll start building some social book marks from other sources other than GSA SER to my links to hopefully help with indexing as well.

Keyword hasn't appeared yet but barely any of the links I've built have been indexed.

Social Media
Twitter is growing really fast compared to Pinterest and Instagram. I don't mind since most of my social media traffic is from Twitter. I'm hoping this will grow at a faster rate in the future, but I won't do anything crazy to risk my account.

Stats
Twitter - 316 Followers
Pinterest - 152 Followers
Instagram - 306 Followers

Great to hear of your journey and good luck to you! ECommerce webstores are excellent ways to earn affiliate dollars! Make sure to set goals for visitors, conversions, and income for your site. This is helpful for creating future projects as new niches continuously pop-up and quick money can be made. If you have an eCommerce style affiliate site that isn't getting you the conversions/sales that you're looking for, you can always start a new project without wasting all your hard work.

Dawgtown said:

Great to hear of your journey and good luck to you! ECommerce webstores are excellent ways to earn affiliate dollars! Make sure to set goals for visitors, conversions, and income for your site. This is helpful for creating future projects as new niches continuously pop-up and quick money can be made. If you have an eCommerce style affiliate site that isn't getting you the conversions/sales that you're looking for, you can always start a new project without wasting all your hard work.

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Yeah! I noticed that it's very easy to just import products and set up another website in this manner. Hope fully if this one is a success I'll be building the next one two at a time and the set up time will be super fast since I already know how to set it all up.

I did end up getting my goal tracking to work(I think) but it's a bit weird still. I think something is still off with it.. Will continue to look into it today

[Day 6] April 26, 2015 - Update #1
Here's a picture of my analytics so far:


As you can see, there's some traffic coming in and it's increasing. I'm hoping it will continue to increase over the week and I'm wroking on getting my page/session to 2 right now.

SEO
So I stayed up a little bit last night to finish building the rest of the 301's to my web 2.0 301's. So right now it looks like this web2.0 <- 301 <- 301, this took way longer than I thought it would but I'm glad it's done.

Just now I did my daily maintenance on my tier link building campaign and I gather all my links and put them into Backlink Monitor and I'm about to do a huge check to see what's dead and what is alive still. Afterwards I'm going to be putting them into an indexing service for a drip feed of 7 days.

I'm planning on starting to build Social Bookmarking type links to all my T1's over the course of the week, it's going to take a while, but I'm going to do a bit everyday.

Social Media
Things are going great here; I'm getting decent traffic for the amount of followers I have and the best part is that this is all automated. The only thing I have to do is check on FollowLiker every so often to see if anything is wrong and to tweak the settings.

[Day 6] April 26, 2016 - Update #2
Here are my analytics for the day:

All time high of 15 visitors! Yeaaaaaaah! it's little victories like these that gets your through the beginning stages of a journey

SEO
Backlink Monitor has finished checking the batch of my url's. Over half of them were dead, which I'm not even surprised. The one that were dead weren't any T1's but mostly links that GSA SER had built. I removed them and put them into an indexer with a drip feed of 7 days. Tomorrow I'm going to re-verify all my links in GSA SER and start building social bookmarks to my T1's.

I mentioned a few updates ago that I had 5 expired domains in my PBN; the reason I haven't started building them yet is because I want to see if this keyword is really as easy as it seems. I don't want to use more resources than I should for it and save those domains for a higher difficulty keyword. If this keyword ends up being stuck on page 2 then I'll add them in and maybe sprinkle some SAPE for that home stretch.

Social Media
Not much as changed here, I'm going to be added more photos to Instagram over the next few days. Nothing needs to be changed here, going to keep it slow and steady and not get my accounts banned.

Stats
Twitter - 348 Followers
Pinterest - 176 Followers
Instagram - 355 Followers

[Day 7] April 27, 2016 - Update #1
One week milestone today, it hasn't been long but at least I stuck with it for a week unlike others...

SEO
Anyways, not much different today from yesterday. Starting to build some social bookmarks and I'm generating content write now with SEO Content Machine + WordAi. Pretty sure I'm going to need at least 100 unique articles to make sure I don't have any duplicates even if they're spun. I like to make sure that everything is copyscape passed.

Social Media
Steadily growing and is still my main source of traffic, mostly twitter, then pinterest, and then instagram. I'm thinking about building a Tumblr but I don't think many people are old enough to purchase things in my niche there let alone have a money to spend lol. I'm still going to checkout my niche there anyways.

[Day 7] April 27th, 2016 - Update #2
Real life came into play today and I ended up not being able to do anything related to this project. Sorry guys and sorry future me to having to do more work tomorrow.

Social Media Stats
Twitter - 373 Followers +25
Pinterest - 201 Followers +26
Instagram - 401 Followers +46

[Day 8] April 28, 2015 - Update #1

SEO
Since the events of yesterday I've decided to build out the PBN and not wait for these links to index. I want to start seeing some organic traffic to my site soon and start making some $$$ on it, even if it is $1 / day. It's going to take be a few days to build out these blogs but hopefully it'll be worth it.

Looks like my links are slowly starting to index, I have 1% of them indexed according to Backlink Monitor. I've removed all the websites that had broken links and page errors. Like I've said before, I don't want GSA to waste resources building links to broken pages. It wouldn't benefit me at all.

Social Media
Thank god for automation, I didn't have to worry about not being able to work on this part of the project yesterday. I tweaked the settings again today and I'm expecting to see a slight increase on the amount of followers I gain / day.

[Day 8] April 29, 2016 - Update #2

SEO
Ahhhhh my web2.0's is finally starting to index! I was getting worried that I needed to outsource content for my T1 and that WordAi was no longer going to cut it. Thank god because that shit is expensive like daaaaamn, but it's a bitter sweet feeling since a few of them (7 to be exact) got taken down. Oh well, I'll just build some more later on.

Looks like some of my edu links are starting to get indexed as well now and none of them got taken down. Although on the other hand, my profile links haven't been indexed, but i've been reading around and it looks like these are the hardest to index. Just going to have to build more links with GSA SER.

Hopefully my keyword will start to appear in SerpBook before my PBN is done being built. Speaking of PBN, I never really got into detail with it. So I'm going to build my PBN for this particular site in batches of 5. TF, CF, and Ref domain 10+, clean anchors, clean history with Archive.org, and I scrape them from authority sites like TechCrunch, Huffington post, Forbes, and etc.

I don't usually go for a niche PBN but I do take my time to build them out with overall design, unique content, and logos. You know, everything that doesn't make them look it's only purpose was to rank my site. I like to always go for Homepage links, I never had any issues in the past with doing this, and I don't like to waste all this time and effort to have it's link juice drop because the link was in a post.

Social Media
Nothing really to update here..except that Twitter is literally carrying my traffic for now lol.

Stats
Twitter - 393 Followers +20
Pinterest - 223 Followers +22
Instagram - 444 Followers +34

[Day 9] April 30, 2016

Monthly Report:
I've decided to do a monthly analytics posts instead of one on an irregular schedule. Even though I started in late April, I want a bench mark to beat for next month. I love to give myself challenges to make myself work harder and I feel this can help with that.

Anyways, here's my analytics for the month of April:


Current Thoughts / Problems
Ah, the problems with working with api's. Looks like Amazons api has been acting up so I can't add in new products. On top of that I don't know if this is related to Amazons api problem, but my WooZone plugin is deleting all the products it imports into my site.

I've actually looked into another plugin that does what WooZone does but I'll post about it once I've tested it.

I didn't want my eCommerce to be blank because of no products, so I put an article that I purchased a few weeks ago but didn't use it yet until now on the home page. This article is related to my website and has links to amazon products, so it shouldn't cause to much problems. Hope this issue is resolved soon.

SEO
Still building out my PBN and working on indexing my links. I don't expect much to change here for the next few days, so these updates might be a bit empty. :S

Indexing seems to be jumping around though, I hoping they'll start stabilizing soon. I have about 10% of my web 2.0 indexed at the moment and I'm only worried about those links right now. I'm hoping this 301 url redirect will soon boost these web2.0's as they're all newly created. Since I have ScrapeBox, I think I'm going to be scraping expired tumblrs. Hopefully I can fit it into my day though :/

Social Media Stats
Twitter - 435 Followers +42
Pinterest - 263 Followers +40
Instagram - 547 Followers +137

[Day 10] May 1, 2016 - Update #1
God bless Amazon and they're quick fixes. Their api is now working again and I can finally import products back into my eCommerce. I did switch to another plugin and I'll be testing that today. If that plugin works better, which I think it will, I'll post it here.

SEO
Not much to say here for now. Still blasting away at my T1's with GSA SER contextuals and building my PBN.

All my T1's are still jumping back and forth from being indexed and not indexed. Looking at other forums, this seems to be a common thing now and is to be expected.

Social Media
Same old here as well. Accounts are growing at a great rate and pinterest is starting to generate traffic now as well. I'm feeling that i'll get a sale this month (knock on wood).

[Day 11] May 1, 2016 - Update #2
I like this other plugin more than I do WooZone. The plugin is called Prosociate, and I have imported 200+ products today that are similar to my main keyword with ease. I've set up a Cron job to run every 15minutes to check prices and update the products on my site. And it's pretty damn simple to set up compare to WooZone, which was already simple enough already. Oh, and the dev seems to be quick enough to respond to my questions.

One thing is that I had to add in a cart page and a checkout page. When the users checks out, it will bring them to Amazon Checkout with al the products in the cart.

Social Media Stats
Twitter - 452 Followers +17
Pinterest - 295 Followers +32
Instagram - 597 Followers +50

[Day 14] May 4, 2016
Been a busy few days, busy with other dev projects, and personal things. Doesn't mean I haven't been working on this project though. This is my potential cash cow and it's waiting to be milked it's money.

SEO
Here's a picture of a stats T1's index status:


These are a combination of Web2.0's, EDUs, and profiles with my main keyword as the anchor. I didn't include any GSA T1's as those are just brand / generic anchors.

The 5 sites in my PBN are indexed and they should all be done by the end of this week, fingers crossed. I'm going to be adding more articles to them after the designs are done, I'm thinking around 4 for now, and then one every month. Word count / article will be 750 - 3000 words; I like to mix it up.

Social Media
Still the main source of my traffic. Nothing crazy happening here yet as the accounts still need tons of more followers to be driving the amount of traffic I'm aiming for. I've tweaked the settings again in FollowerLiker, by the end of this month, these accounts will be doing a lot of actions / day. The accounts will be growing even faster.

Stats
Twitter - 549 Followers +107
Pinterest - 366 Followers +71
Instagram - 732 Followers +135

I definitely enjoy using Prosociate for many of my eCommerce websites. I have tried it with a number of high-conversion WooCommerce themes and haven't had a single issue. It works really well and allows me to customize the product pages with my own unique content...this is huge for improved rankings! I typically run my cron job every 5 minutes on my host but 15 minutes should still work fine.

Interested to see how you do with your social traffic. I have a few tweaks that I have done with my Pinterest traffic that is killing it in a couple of my targeted niches! Instagram has given me some followers but not as much conversion as with Pinterest and Facebook.

Good luck to you on this journey!

Dawgtown said:

I definitely enjoy using Prosociate for many of my eCommerce websites. I have tried it with a number of high-conversion WooCommerce themes and haven't had a single issue. It works really well and allows me to customize the product pages with my own unique content...this is huge for improved rankings! I typically run my cron job every 5 minutes on my host but 15 minutes should still work fine.

Interested to see how you do with your social traffic. I have a few tweaks that I have done with my Pinterest traffic that is killing it in a couple of my targeted niches! Instagram has given me some followers but not as much conversion as with Pinterest and Facebook.

Good luck to you on this journey!

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Yeah, definitely prefer Prosociate over WooZone and it works perfectly fine with my current WooCommerce Theme on WP. I would lower the CRON job to 5 minutes but my host only allows 15 minutes as the lowest.

My social traffic is growing but unfortunately it seems to be having visitors from all over the world. On the bright side, it's mostly US traffic anyways which what I'm targeting.

I want to start working on my FaceBook page but I'm going to use my money to focus on my PBN and grow it to at least 10 domains first. If you don't mind me asking, how are you growing your FaceBook page? With a bot or through FaceBook Ads?

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I want to start working on my FaceBook page but I'm going to use my money to focus on my PBN and grow it to at least 10 domains first. If you don't mind me asking, how are you growing your FaceBook page? With a bot or through FaceBook Ads?

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I typically started my social media accounts with a mixture of manual and botting. I tend to 'age' my accounts for several months by adding content to those and interacting with others before I even create my actual marketing 'campaigns'. After gaining a good number of followers/traction, I hire a VA to handle to repeated process of interacting/manual social media postings. This gives me time to focus on new projects or refine my current ones.

Also with note to Facebook pages, I manage several dozen of them in several niches so having the VA to assist me is crucial to putting this on autopilot. Many of the niches I target are fairly broad and this actually helps me to cross over to other narrower niches more easily. As soon as I build a new campaign, I already have the broader niche that can be targeted and I can use this existing traffic source to help grow the new FB page.

Once I have my general audience, I can use testing on FB ads to further narrow my targeted audience. I test constantly and when I think I have it, I test some more. Tracking is essential too so that I can see what converts and what doesn't. This allows me to focus my ad spending into a more efficient conversion process.