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Lessons I Learned Earning $119,725.45 from Amazon Associates Program

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Re: Lessons I Learned Earning $119,725.45 from Amazon Associates Program

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Post by jsonscripter »

OmarIsmail wrote: post #5

One of the ways that people are making money with Amazon is just by the cookies. I believe Amazon is a 7-day tracking cookie, so what this means is that if a user clicks on your affiliate link to Amazon if that user makes a purchase from Amazon in the next 7 days, you get credit. Of course the game is "who helped me last" so it's whoever planted the Amazon cookie on that user's browser most recently will get the affi…

What's stopping a site from just having an invisible iframe link to amazon? That would refresh that cookie on every page load.

Re: Lessons I Learned Earning $119,725.45 from Amazon Associates Program

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Post by nebula »

vijayr wrote: post #20
antonovka wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My parents taught me to not disclose the amount of money I make, and to not trust people who do -- they have every incentive to lie, be it due to ego or simply a desire to leverage an appearance of success into actual (but usually much diminished) success. A 'professional blogger' is blogging about how to make money blogging. What does that tell you? It tells me that what makes this blogger his money (however much he…

http://www.johnchow.com/ That is the most annoying blog I've come across, in the 'internet marketing' niche. Problogger on the other hand, seems trustworthy, of course its good to be skeptical with such posts.

Linking to such a thing is a bad idea: i) people can accidentally click on it ii) you might be contributing to its Page Rank iii) The fact that it's linked from HN, gives it certain credibility.

can you please consider making it text, instead of hrefed?

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Post by ProBlogger »

andrewtj wrote: post #39
ProBlogger wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hi there - I actually welcome your skepticism on this one - there's a lot of people claiming a lot of things online these days. The reason I actually revealed the amount I've made with Amazon in this post was simply that I constantly get people telling me that Amazon is impossible to make good money with because it's just lots of tiny tiny commissions (ie 5% of a book sale isn't much). In terms of what makes me my mo…

Have you ever found being Au-based a limitation on your online efforts?

not a lot. I tend to develop blogs for US based audiences where there is more traffic and more monetization options. The only downside is that occassionally people think I've only got Aussie traffic and are not willing to advertise with us until we can prove the US traffic thing. Other than that there's not been a lot of problems

Re: Lessons I Learned Earning $119,725.45 from Amazon Associates Program

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Post by ProBlogger »

whatusername wrote: post #38
ProBlogger wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hi there - I actually welcome your skepticism on this one - there's a lot of people claiming a lot of things online these days. The reason I actually revealed the amount I've made with Amazon in this post was simply that I constantly get people telling me that Amazon is impossible to make good money with because it's just lots of tiny tiny commissions (ie 5% of a book sale isn't much). In terms of what makes me my mo…

I'll put my hand up as a Melbournite if someone is desperate to check up on Darren. Let me know if anyone is actually interested in some HN confirmation. (for my behalf - I think Darren looks pretty legit - he makes money on stuff like photography & the olympics - and gets famous writing about blogging)

happy to have a meet if there's a genuine interest in it.

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Post by ProBlogger »

leviathant wrote: post #40

Tip #12: Blog about something that costs a lot of money. In other words, this guy's running a website about digital cameras. I run a site about a band. While the occasional album release will net me a couple thousand dollars, what used to be a month-to-month income of $20-$50 in random CD shopping has all but disappeared in the last couple of years. Luckily, t-shirt sales through another site and eBay affiliate links…

you're right - topic is a factor both in terms of the traffic you can generate as well as the options to monetize.

A blog about a band is a tough one to make money from. There may be opportunities to monetize by promoting products from similar bands as well (ie: if you like Megadeth you might also like this album from.... ummm.... Britney Spears). Otherwise there may be advertisers looking to get their message out to the kind of people that like a certain band (if the band has a tight demographic following).

Ultimately though - some topics are hard going. They attract audiences that are not in a 'buying mood' and as a result affiliate promotions and even advertising can be tough going.

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