Following this thread...
And apologies if my post is too long...
Just trying to give noob value
Here's my 2 cents.
My site deployment is pretty much exactly what @meathed1234 describes what to do.
I found
time is the biggest factor with my Amazon affiliate site.
Start with a method like Meatheads, an outcome you want from your site and make sure you working another job to keep you in the lifestyle your accustomed to.
Outcome can be - sell the site for $XXXX, income of $XXX per month, site just needs to cover my car payments etc.
Have these 3 things and you are in it for the long haul.
You need to have patience in the Amazon affiliate game.
It's not a get rich quick scenario.
Started March 2018 - am now up to about $200 per month sales.
14 article style blog.
I'm actually re investing my profit into more articles in 2019 - aim is to get it up to 50 articles, theoretically that would be a straight line to $800p/m
I'll get greedy in 2020 and put the profit in my pocket...probably.
My experience is:
New blog - 3-6 months in the Google sandbox
6-9 months the traffic needle starts moving ever so slightly to keep you interested in affiliate blogging- still no/limited sales (i got some sales around Xmas)
9+ months - boom! organic traffic starts to increase MoM - at present im looking at a 27% increase in traffic between Feb 19 and Mar 19 traffic to my blog. Revenue starts to become more consistent and slowly increase MoM.
From here I can basically go after any keyword i want and rank inside the top 30 within 48hrs, after 48hrs Google plays with my article like a cat playing with a ball of string bouncing my article around the top 100 then it starts to settl back down inside the top 30.
The reason is Google is now starting to trust my site.
You need to add content consistently and backlinks.
Im only adding 2 x 3000 word articles per month (need to up this though with a big mid year buy), as mentioned im buying articles - sometimes if I like the topic i'll write the article...
Buying a do follow backlink package every 4-6 weeks to posts that have sat in the Google index for 4-6 weeks (i.e. not posting and then immediately back linking to the post, Google doesn't trust me that much and would probs be a red flag somewhere)
Im starting to do forum posts on Quora and Reddit - just noobing around on these forums at present, no consistency.
A little bit of traffic, nothing to be excited about.
Outcome for me is to sell for 5 figures + depending on timing and personal circumstances.
Ohh and the biggest tip I can give - try and get your bounce rate 90%+
The reason is you don't want traffic looking around on your site - you want them bouncing straight away from your site to Amazon so you can put that cookie on their device
Please feel free to PM me if you like with questions - noob to noob it's all good.
