Amazon Earnings

My own impression (which comes from only second-hand information, through a friend of that site's owner, who wouldnt want to be named and quoted on what he said anyway) was actually of a significantly lower figure than that.

But I have a lot of respect for Stuart and his posts, and he may well be right, if that's what he said.

I have a couple of little Amazon-only sites myself ("thisiswhyimbroke" is far from being "Amazon only", of course), which are very useful to me because of Amazon's bizarre commission-percentages method: I use them in order to increase my "number of items per month" rather than for the commissions I actually earn from those sites, the point being that having them ensures that I make 8.0/8.5% commissions, rather than much less, on the much higher-priced stuff I sell elsewhere through what I regard as "real affiliate marketing" (i.e. list-building from niche sites). To me, those two sites are "a necessary nuisance" rather than being a way of making a living in themselves. Without having them, my "real" Amazon income would probably be about a third lower than it is. It may suit other people, but I'd never try, myself, to build a "real affiliate marketing" business by selling products directly from a website without list-building. That's just a "volume-of-sales booster", to me.

I must say that as income claims go, that one's certainly modest enough: over the 6-year period for which he reports his Amazon earnings, they came to only about $1,700 per month (even if not actually earned at that rate, of course).

Mine also.

Not my experience, belief or expectation at all.

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It took me about a year and 280,000 pageviews per month to break $5,000/mo from amazon. I didn't make anything for the first few months. I'm still learning what works and what doesn't though.

The biggest key I've found in success with Amazon is definitely authority as in they see you as an expert in your niche and not just another website in that niche. I didn't make anything until that authority was built. They have to trust that you know what you're talking about so if you say they need to buy something that they know it's a fact. I have other sites that I'm just starting to build authority so they aren't making jack.

I have other people that I've helped improve their amazon earnings and traffic was important, but not as important as authority.

Implementation is also very important. I have a friend who gets well over a million hits per month and he tried just putting an amazon widget on each page and it didn't make anything. By explaining a need, and fulfilling that need with a product that amazon sells, and then linking to it with a strong call-to-action, you get the best conversion rates. You also need to mix inexpensive/popular things with occasional higher-priced items so you can get your percentage up and take advantage of it.

I've never had any luck with clickbank or anything similar but amazon works great.

Yes. But why use free blogspot when you can register a domain and have full control of everything?