Comments on: Affiliate Programs – Amazon Associates

By: Rene

Rene — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 15:25:22 +0000

Can someone direct me to where I can get an easy plug-in for Word Press and Amazon? I want one that uto builds the link with a picture and applies my associate ID to any purchases resulting from the link.
Everything I find is not compatible with the current version of Word Press.
Thanks

By: Cool Thing

Cool Thing — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 07:34:44 +0000

by the way – for books i’ve heard abe books is much better – both in the amount of books they stock, and how they treat their affiliates

By: Cool Thing

Cool Thing — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 07:08:08 +0000

a big plus is amazon doesn’t kick you off if you’re not selling, learning the ropes.

a big negative is the conversions (partly due to the cookie length). i’m sure we buy much more from amazon just as advertisers looking for stock than we ever receive in comissions. IMO they really need to remedy this

By: Ricky

Ricky — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 07:16:57 +0000

In reference to its popularity,handy amazon is one of the biggest earning affiliate.Using amazon widgets and its own search engines in the best possible way handyzon is a complete website in itself for shopping, giving amazon shoppers a new home page to shop on.With thousands of unique clicks daily handyzon is the talk of the online shopping world.It is the one of the few websites that covers six nations for shopping facilities.Handyzon is based on showing biggest price cuts, newest sale items, and the big cost savers among popular items at the great big Amazon market.

By: Ricky

Ricky — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 19:51:24 +0000

http://www.handyzon.com
This is how http://www.handyzon.com website’s home page starts…
Handyzon = Amazon General + Deals + Steals + Bestsellers + Most wanted + New addition + Chat zones + Hidden discounts + Product Details

http://www.Handyzon.com also popularly known as handy amazon is amazon’s biggest and highly paid associate. One single website has changed an old online shopping trend.Instead of using amazon’s homepage, visitors are going for http://www.handyzon.com for shopping on amazon.For all the amazon fans and shoppers, handyzon provides you with amazon’s handy shopping catalog with special features like chat zones,bestsellers,my selection,shopping rooms for searching products with upto 99% discounts for all the nations.Handyzon’s latest search engines for US,uk,Canada,Germany,France,Japan enables users to search for products with discounts of their choice, plus you get to choose categories like bestsellers,top ranked, most wanted,most expensive,cheapest,best rated products.Latest deals are daily updated in ‘steals’ showcase.
Besides shopping for products handyzon provides you with links to all the amazon pages including discussion forums,products tagged,latest news,associate programs thereby giving users a handy way to reach every inch of amazon shopping world.

What started as Earth’s biggest bookstore has rapidly become Earth’s biggest anything store. Expansion has propelled Amazon in innumerable directions. The firm’s main Web site offers millions of books, music, DVDs, videos, auto parts, toys, tools, electronics, home furnishings, apparel, health & beauty aids, prescription drugs, groceries, and services including film processing. Why pay regular prices when you can buy discount items online from Handyzon? For those of you having all the knowledge of the best and the worst ( products, brands, offers, rates, latest…) handyzon provides you with search engines, for others there are handy catalogs & chat zones,chat widgets,product reviews so that you don’t miss even a single deal.

By: PuReWebDev

PuReWebDev — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 04:41:51 +0000

Amazon is definitely the best affiliate program to work with. It’s good to see so many people using it.

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 04:52:49 +0000

Can someone please give me a link that shows what Amazon pays out in commissions for each product they carry? I guess I’m not looking in the right place because I couldn’t find that.

Thank you.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Fri, 09 May 2008 12:57:57 +0000

I’m still uncertain about Amazon. First, the length of time my cookie remains active. Secondly, and much more important, unlike say Adsense, Amazon’s ads are country specific.

That means of course that if I have a site and it appeals to residents of more than one country then I have to find a way of displaying Amazon goods for these countries. An example. Currently I have a blog about vegetarianism now say I want to promote Being Vegetarian for Dummies (For Dummies). The best I can come up with at the moment is to have an Amazon logo in my side coloumn and national flags underneath it – hoping that my reader will select their appropriate Amazon country.

If I mention the book in a post then the best I can hope for is to direct the reader to one Amazon store or possibly to another page of my blog where I can promote it to more than one country. Again not the best use of time.

There must be a workaround that can use to overcome this problem and more specifically for WordPress users is there any plugins out there that will do this for us.

By: Genesis Font

Genesis Font — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:31:27 +0000

The Amazon Associates program has been growing at a large rate. It’s a great way to passively generate income just for branding and marketing an Amazon Associate website.

Commissions on some items are as high as 10%. The ability to market and drive traffic to generate a sale is the only responsibility most Amazon Associates have to worry about.

I’ve setup several Amazon Associate sites for myself, about 15 of them actually.

thanks,
Genesis Font

By: Kevin

Kevin — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 21:58:17 +0000

I’ve just put Amazon on my two blogs. I’m confused though about something. Suppose a reader clicks on one of my Amazon links, is taken to the appropiate page, decides they don’t really want the product, do a little bit more surfing, and then buy something entirely different: they looked at a book and end up buying a DVD recorder!

Do I get a commission on that sale?

Kevin

By: M1kester

M1kester — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 09:06:38 +0000

Hello,

thank you for the article. Could you clarify something for me. My customers come from across Europe and the US. Is the amazon cookie going to be transferable between amazon sites?

i.e. will i get paid if customers change from .com to .co.uk as they are prompted to.

i don’t fancy having to sign up as an affiliate in each location, then having to have multiple affiliate links for each product with seperate currencies. thanks :)

By: Darren Rowse

Darren Rowse — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 21:37:46 +0000

Fairy – no they pay when someone buys something – you get a commission

By: Fairy

Fairy — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 13:59:18 +0000

I am new in here and was wondering if amazon pays per click or wat ??

By: sir jorge

sir jorge — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 19:17:50 +0000

I’m trying out the astore feature, hopefully i can get some crossover, but it’s not as easy as I thought it would be. http://astore.amazon.com/sirjcomics-20 is not exactly doing hot, but i’m going to use some of the methods talked about in this post and on the site, and it should pay off….i have my fingers crossed.

By: coldhitz

coldhitz — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 04:27:42 +0000

I read these coments and feel that , having just started with Amazon , there is allot more information I can use on ProBlogger , than there is on the associates site. Trying to get an answer on there is like trying to make sno-cones with no ice. Thank you for all your hints and tips , to everyone who posted a comment.

By: Sirius

Sirius — Fri, 18 May 2007 04:48:42 +0000

I’ve sold exactly one book since my blog began in February.

I had an idea. I spend hundreds of dollars a year on Amazon, maybe more. No one is making a commission on these sales. I can’t get commissions for buying through my own affiliate program.

So I started thinking. What if there was someone else out there in the same situation? I could make all my Amazon purchases through their site and they could make their purchases through my site.

If someone out there does a lot of shopping on Amazon and wants to talk about doing this, click the link on my name. You can find my e-mail address on my blog.

By: Roo

Roo — Tue, 08 May 2007 16:25:25 +0000

I’ve been messing around with a tutorial website on all the things that it’s possible to do with an aStore. Many people don’t seem to get on with aStore’s as they don’t integrate them well with their blog or website, yet there are a huge variety of ways of creating links into amazon that will earn you your 5%.
Not sure how best to link to it, but if you click my name above it should take you there.
It’s still in beta testing at the moment and I need to add a few more pages and screenshots to fully justify the adaptability and ease of creating an aStore, but hopefully there’s enough there to get an idea!

By: Jason Isaks

Jason Isaks — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 15:19:59 +0000

Amazon often gets a bad rap, but there are lots of creative ways you can use their affiliate program to your advatage. I’ve been with them for 6 years now.

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