Comments on: Increase Amazon Sales with Best Seller and Popular Product Lists

By: diabetes adult

diabetes adult — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 15:10:03 +0000

thanks, amazon is may second source for making money after adsense

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 23:15:35 +0000

Now you;ve done it. I’m actually motivated enough to try putting up my own “best seller” site.

Thanks for the info – it’s at least a step in the right direction for me – something I CAN do.

By: uwak

uwak — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 07:15:45 +0000

so sad can’t take more profits on last months 2008…… I hope more better on 2009

By: Linda

Linda — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 08:46:39 +0000

You got to sell a lot of books to make it worth while with Amazon it’s such a low rate of commission.

By: Cory @ Dental Heroes

Cory @ Dental Heroes — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 02:52:38 +0000

Too bad this post wasn’t prepared in time to take full advantage of the holiday season. You did leave a full week, though :).

In any event, I think unless you have a thriving blog, you probably won’t see much from the Amazon.com Affiliate Program. The commissions are pretty low, so you’d have to drive a lot of traffic to your affiliate offers to see much of a return.

However, I think a number of users here do have thriving blogs, so it wouldn’t hurt to give this a shot. Thanks for the tip.

By: Gobala @ Profit Blogging Tips

Gobala @ Profit Blogging Tips — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 19:31:09 +0000

I wonder why people still waste their time with the Amazon affiliate program. It shows a lot of people don’t get creative when trying to monetize their blogs, just use the biggest most crappy affiliate program out there and hope for the best.

By: Craig

Craig — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 12:37:27 +0000

Gday Darren

Just wanted to let you know. The first link in this post has the wrong URL in it! You have spelt photography wrong :)

By: PuReWebDev

PuReWebDev — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 12:19:54 +0000

I like the concept of making lists as entry points. They are pretty enticing, I’ll have to go ahead and give it a shot.

By: Frugal Dad

Frugal Dad — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 11:48:54 +0000

I created a Frugal Holiday Gift Guide and even dedicated a navigation page to the post through the holiday season to continue to drive traffic. So far, I’ve tripled my Amazon earnings over “normal” months. Great idea!

By: John Doe

John Doe — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 11:48:15 +0000

great idea working on… pehaps, the list gets me going filling my empty pockets. I would like to know, whether is it easy to make money by blogging? I have read about blogging as a money maker tool. But, does that work? I recently read a press release talking about a teenage millionaire making money from his bloggings. you can read that at http://www.prlog.org/10156486-another-domain-to-my-success-the-teenage-millionaire-aditya.html .I was fascinated by the post and started a new blog but I don’t think I will ever be able to make the money the teenage blogger makes.

perhaps, blogging is the money maker tool for only few. I will work with my affiliate programs and will try to make it work for me.

Nice commenting here.

John Doe.

By: James

James — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 09:26:39 +0000

Darren, and all the other guys who have helped answer my question, thanks very much, I really appreciate it.

By: Moise Levi

Moise Levi — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 09:25:08 +0000

I have tried that ; best selling financial books, but never had much results from that at all …..

Often feel that readers will see the book, then jump to their Amazon account without clicking on my link

By: J.D. Meier

J.D. Meier — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 09:07:49 +0000

How do you drive somebody to your Popular Digital Cameras and Gear page?

I went to the blog home (I think) but couldn’t find how you got somebody from the main nav to your best seller list. I might have just missed it, or is it about pointing people to it from posts or other places?

By: mike

mike — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 00:34:39 +0000

These are great tips. And you never know when someone clicks on a link and winds up buying other items worth a lot more. It happened to me once before.

By: Darren Rowse

Darren Rowse — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 00:11:45 +0000

James – I would suggest Amazon.com. There are tools around that make it a little easier to use multiple Amazon sites in different parts of the world depending upon your audience but I find it simpler just to go with the US store as that is where most of my readers are and those that are not can still order things like books from the US.

Tubby Office People – yes traffic is essential with pretty much any monetization strategy although you can still earn with small traffic (just not massive amounts).

Glad you’re enjoying the Problogger book.

Matt – yes polling readers is a great way to generate user participation and buzz on a blog

By: Derek Clark - GeekPolitics

Derek Clark - GeekPolitics — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 19:05:31 +0000

Great idea. Thanks. I just tried this on my blog.
10 Political and Finance Books for Your Christmas Stocking

http://geekpolitics.com/10-political-and-finance-books-for-your-christmas-stocking/

Thanks for the great idea Darren.

By: Matt | Small Biz Bee

Matt | Small Biz Bee — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 18:23:01 +0000

I don’t think you can ever go wrong polling your audience, then creating content based on those answers. Doesn’t just apply to selling things either, use it in all parts of your blog to see results.

Matt

By: ATLANTA WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHER

ATLANTA WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHER — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 17:27:09 +0000

thanks darren. I started something similar but with a more passive name “bookshelf” because I just wanted it to be a help. The site is not promoted to sell anything other than thoughts and advice. I think that I should change it to “resources.” THis would be a little more interactive I think.

@James look at what site darren is using since he doesn’t live in the US

By: icq

icq — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 17:14:43 +0000

This is a great idea and works perfectly with the kind of blog I have – a resource for finding American made products

By: Tubby Office People

Tubby Office People — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 16:46:49 +0000

I have tried Amazon in the past and found it to be much like Adsense, you need a lot of traffic to really take advantage of it. My blogs are pretty small time, but they could probably benefit from a best seller list.

@Darren: Picked up your book. Haven’t read the whole thing yet, but have found it very inspiring thus far!

@James: If you have Google Analytics installed on your blog you can see what part of the world most of your readers are coming from. This may help in your Amazon decision