Comments on: How to Dramatically Increase Amazon Affiliate Sales with Bestseller Lists

By: Kittykatang

Kittykatang — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 02:38:26 +0000

Hi Darren, I’m in the process of setting up a blog and live in Australia too. As Amazon does not have an Australian site, could you please explain to me how you use the affiliate program. Thanks.
I’m following your 31 day challenge and it’s just fantastic – thank you.

By: Anna

Anna — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 07:34:20 +0000

This is a great idea. Almost dumb not to think of it. It would fit in perfectly with one of my sites. I will implement this, but like you said, I will wait for the right moment do it in the best context.

By: Ron duke

Ron duke — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 14:23:23 +0000

Great informational article.!! I searched a bit more and found many site who actually selling products of amazon along with their own product or services. Some blogs too display “Recommended Product Links” related the post topic. I notice some full fledge sites only setting amazon products..like http://www.amazku.com althought they call it startup.

By: Rebecca Laffar-Smith

Rebecca Laffar-Smith — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:38:58 +0000

One of the things I did in the lead up to Christmas 2007 was write a post that was my personal writers wishlist based on Amazon products. It wasn’t intended to encourage readers to send me stuff (and nobody did *pouts*) but instead to get feedback from my fellow writers on what THEY wanted for their Christmas stockings.

I love the idea of doing a quarterly Best Buys or What Readers Are Buying type post. I don’t currently get a great deal of sales through my affiliate links and posts like these would certainly help improve things in that regard but they’re also offering valuable information for readers. Because if readers are buying then other readers probably want it too.

Great tips and thanks for Plurking the link!

By: Garg the Unzola

Garg the Unzola — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 14:29:20 +0000

I did make a list already in 2 posts.
http://necrofiles.blogspot.com/2007/11/come-on-hollywood-remake-these-films.html

Any ideas on how I could get Amazon referrals from them more specifically? Thanks.

By: Garg the Unzola

Garg the Unzola — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 14:25:13 +0000

I am stil struggling to get my Amazon widgest to display properly, I think it is a conflict with the size of my layout.
Thanks for the post, gave me some good ideas.

By: Widgett Walls

Widgett Walls — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 10:42:03 +0000

Excellent idea. While we mention the Amazon kickbacks often enough and link out when we’re talking about products, the me-too of seeing a list of bestsellers might generate some coin. Looks like I’ll do another one around the holidays at year-end. Thanks.

By: A Tentative Personal Finance Blog

A Tentative Personal Finance Blog — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 13:11:11 +0000

Is it easy to set up one of these accounts? I would love to whore out books on my site.

By: Elmo The American Classified Ads Free Utilizing Google Dude!

Elmo The American Classified Ads Free Utilizing Google Dude! — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 03:04:02 +0000

What a great idea for generating interest and drawing in customers! That is why I love this Blog! Thanks so much!

God Bless!

By: Brad

Brad — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 01:34:21 +0000

Utilizing bestseller lists is an interesting idea. I’ve considered doing it with my Amazon affiliate program, but haven’t. Why? Believe it or not, bestseller lists are very arbitrary, and often don’t truly reflect the “true sales” of most books. I actually wrote a blog post about this (sorry for the shameless self promotion):

http://www.bradsreader.com/brads_reader/2007/05/dirty_little_se.html

Thus, I concentrate more on my adsense program than Amazon.

By: Jason

Jason — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 18:55:00 +0000

“One of the things that I’d love to see Amazon develop is to have some way of automating this process. To be able to have a way to automatically compile such a list of purchases made through a publisher’s account would be a pretty useful thing.”

That would be great, wouldn’t it. I wouldn’t be surprised if they did something like that since the more recent experiments with Context Links and Omakase Links.

By: Julian

Julian — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 18:10:24 +0000

What you could do also is to get advertising of blog books :) from affil’s

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 18:08:38 +0000

Great article. I would add that creating an aStore through Amazon Affiliates is a way to put together the top titles in the field that you are covering, and looks professional too. Another way of utilizing the best-seller list technique is simply to list the top selling titles on your aStore home page.

By: David A. Porter

David A. Porter — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 18:06:36 +0000

Darren,

Thanks for this timely tip. I just re-activated my Amazon Associates Account but don’t have any conversions. Since I set it up, I really haven’t paid any attention to it. Just like anything else, if you ignore it, your results will show it.

By: Glen

Glen — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 18:00:43 +0000

Simply awesome, thanks for the tip!

By: Greg Butler

Greg Butler — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 17:49:50 +0000

I am in the Amazon affiliate program and I think that is a great tip. Thanks Darren.

By: Brandon J

Brandon J — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 17:03:12 +0000

It’s funny, I had to stop using the Amazon Affiliate program. I think I might stop using auction ads too. Here’s why. My blog is about personal finances for the military. I’m constantly discussing how people should save their money instead of spending it. I even discuss why personal finance books only get the authors rich; only you can get yourself rich.

For this reason, “selling” products doesn’t really work. Adsense works well because my topics are financial in nature. So Google often has great ads coming up.

So to make a short story long…make sure selling books on your blog makes sense for Amazon to work for you.

Thanks.

Brandon J
Money for Military
http://moneyformilitary.blogspot.com

By: CristianR

CristianR — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 16:57:30 +0000

A Tip for Increasing the Longevity of the List

Might i suggest using the wp plugin that makes a topic sticky ? :) It’s even better than having a link on the homepage , although , i have to admit , that works pretty good if placed well .

@Billy Mac

People usually tend to go for a pros opinion , now imagine what if you were to have a great article on a top 10 camera reviewed that everyone in the market were to link to it . Comments of gratitude would start showing up , your commissions would sky rocket .

Don’t worry anyway , my point was to underline the fact that , if you have already built a strong community , Amazon Affiliates could work for you . As for an unestablished community , is harder , because frankly people have to trust you first .

By: Mahala

Mahala — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 16:47:02 +0000

Problogger has been a great resource for me although I’m not having much luck with Amazon either. I keep plugging away though, eventually I’ll sort it out lol.

By: Terra Andersen

Terra Andersen — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 16:43:53 +0000

More good stuff from Problogger! *=) Great Amazon advice! I never knew about those reports!