I just made my first sale on Amazon!

12 years ago

I am glad this gave you some inspiration, my advice would be to stick with one thing. So focus all your energy in your amazon store and you will have fun beating your commissions each month.

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GGpaul

12 years ago

Originally Posted by dadamson

I am glad this gave you some inspiration, my advice would be to stick with one thing. So focus all your energy in your amazon store and you will have fun beating your commissions each month.

Absolutely. My goal is to have at least 3 different sites each with 50-100 articles.

I'll mix it up once the income grows so I won't put all my eggs in one basket!

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12 years ago

Yea wolfmii is very helpful and firm

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12 years ago

How do you determine "low competition"?

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Originally Posted by BulletheadX

How do you determine "low competition"?

Go download SEO quake for mozilla (it's free). The way I do it is I type in the keyword/product in Google and see the results. If it's less than 50,000 results I go for it and if the top 10 pages are PR 0 or N/A (this is where SEO quake comes in handy). Along if the keyword isn't in the title, and the description.
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lebox1

12 years ago

I have amazon account for years now but have not even reach $50

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cooler1

12 years ago

Congrats on your first sale. Targetting low competition products sounds good because it eliminates the hassle of backlinking, but im wondering is it a long term strategy. Once the product gets a bit older, I gather you'd need to start backlinking to stay on page 1.

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Danny Cutts

12 years ago

getting your first of anything online is a buzz... and even after my 10+ years at it its still the same :-)

Congratulations and keep pushing for more :-)

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12 years ago

Do you write content yourself or outsource it?

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Originally Posted by eric56hk

Do you write content yourself or outsource it?

I was outsourcing but now I like my writing better. However, someone made a good comment that time is money. And writing takes a lot of that time, when I could be doing a lot of other things to expand/scale up.
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Mantasmo

12 years ago

Good stuff.

Amazon sites are the easiest way to make the first few bucks online. A friend of mine built 3 ****ty mini sites with a few amazon links and made over 20 sales in the first month just like that... Sadly after a few months he decided that $40/month wasn't worth his time and killed the sites. He should have kept going, IMO.

I'm going to say this (been there): when it comes to making a full time living online, there's almost no difference between amazon and adsense mini sites. And by the I mean the effort/work required. Making that jump from $50/month to $2000+ monthly is going to be extremely difficult. Scaling is going to be a total bitch, so be smart and persistent.

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12 years ago

Originally Posted by bnetwork

Good stuff.

Amazon sites are the easiest way to make the first few bucks online. A friend of mine built 3 ****ty mini sites with a few amazon links and made over 20 sales in the first month just like that... Sadly after a few months he decided that $40/month wasn't worth his time and killed the sites. He should have kept going, IMO.

I'm going to say this (been there): when it comes to making a full time living online, there's almost no difference between amazon and adsense mini sites. And by the I mean the effort/work required. Making that jump from $50/month to $2000+ monthly is going to be extremely difficult. Scaling is going to be a total bitch, so be smart and persistent.

Good luck!

That is good advice....

But it is fairly easier to make £2k a month... you just need to find the right products :-)

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Suir1980 12 years ago

Originally Posted by Danny Cutts

But it is fairly easier to make £2k a month... you just need to find the right products :-)

...and the right VAs.
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12 years ago

Originally Posted by bnetwork

Good stuff.

Amazon sites are the easiest way to make the first few bucks online. A friend of mine built 3 ****ty mini sites with a few amazon links and made over 20 sales in the first month just like that... Sadly after a few months he decided that $40/month wasn't worth his time and killed the sites. He should have kept going, IMO.

I'm going to say this (been there): when it comes to making a full time living online, there's almost no difference between amazon and adsense mini sites. And by the I mean the effort/work required. Making that jump from $50/month to $2000+ monthly is going to be extremely difficult. Scaling is going to be a total bitch, so be smart and persistent.

Good luck!

Abit off topic, but bnetwork, your current postcount is 888... Lol

Just thought that was cool.

Also well done OP!

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12 years ago

Originally Posted by bnetwork

Good stuff.

Amazon sites are the easiest way to make the first few bucks online. A friend of mine built 3 ****ty mini sites with a few amazon links and made over 20 sales in the first month just like that... Sadly after a few months he decided that $40/month wasn't worth his time and killed the sites. He should have kept going, IMO.

I'm going to say this (been there): when it comes to making a full time living online, there's almost no difference between amazon and adsense mini sites. And by the I mean the effort/work required. Making that jump from $50/month to $2000+ monthly is going to be extremely difficult. Scaling is going to be a total bitch, so be smart and persistent.

Good luck!

Thanks! Absolutely. I'm ready for the challenge.

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Yusuke

12 years ago

Congratulations! When I was making about $50 in Amazon for my first month in April, I thought of leaving the site as it is and go do other things. However I remember people say that once you found something that work, just scale it up, so I decided to bring in more traffic to my site and my earnings keep on increasing month after month as you can see from attached.

There are still 2 more weeks to go and I'm already pass the $400 mark, I hope to do about $1000 per month for my site before moving on to create my next website. Let us all work towards the goal of getting out from the stupid rat race!

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12 years ago

Originally Posted by Yusuke

Congratulations! When I was making about $50 in Amazon for my first month in April, I thought of leaving the site as it is and go do other things. However I remember people say that once you found something that work, just scale it up, so I decided to bring in more traffic to my site and my earnings keep on increasing month after month as you can see from attached.

There are still 2 more weeks to go and I'm already pass the $400 mark, I hope to do about $1000 per month for my site before moving on to create my next website. Let us all work towards the goal of getting out from the stupid rat race!

By the way, I have also learned a lot from wolfmii, thanks!

How much content do you have on the site? I plan on bringing mine up to 100 pages of content.

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Yusuke

12 years ago

Originally Posted by GGpaul

I don't know why I can't even post. Let me try this again. How many pages do you have when it comes to scaling up? I'm going for 100. I'm at 21 at the moment.

Hi, currently my site is having about 40 pages of content, planning to start another site soon but i am also going to continue maintaining this old site.

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GGpaul

12 years ago

Originally Posted by Yusuke

Hi, currently my site is having about 40 pages of content, planning to start another site soon but i am also going to continue maintaining this old site.

How many sites are you working with?

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12 years ago

Originally Posted by GGpaul

How many sites are you working with?

Hi, currently I am working on 1 site, planning to write as many posts as I can but maybe 4 to 5 days per post. I have already bought the domain for my second site but have not start yet.

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GGpaul

12 years ago

Originally Posted by Yusuke

Hi, currently I am working on 1 site, planning to write as many posts as I can but maybe 4 to 5 days per post. I have already bought the domain for my second site but have not start yet.

You put 4-5 posts a day? Woah. Okay cool. So I don't need to do only 1-2 a day. I thought it would "better" that way. It really doesn't matter then huh?

And nice, you gained 7k in a month with 40 keywords/products/posts?

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12 years ago

Originally Posted by GGpaul

You put 4-5 posts a day? Woah. Okay cool. So I don't need to do only 1-2 a day. I thought it would "better" that way. It really doesn't matter then huh?

And nice, you gained 7k in a month with 40 keywords/products/posts?

Haha nope, not 4-5 posts a day, it is 4 to 5 days then one post. In the beginning, I would try to post at least 1 to 2 posts per day and after abt 2 months, I tend to slow down a little bit.

Another thing is that I would mixed my post a little bit which means not all posts are reviews, some are just helpful tips and guides with no affiliate link at all. It will also help in bringing more traffic to my site as well.

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12 years ago

Originally Posted by Yusuke

Haha nope, not 4-5 posts a day, it is 4 to 5 days then one post. In the beginning, I would try to post at least 1 to 2 posts per day and after abt 2 months, I tend to slow down a little bit.

Another thing is that I would mixed my post a little bit which means not all posts are reviews, some are just helpful tips and guides with no affiliate link at all. It will also help in bringing more traffic to my site as well.

Interesting...Do you think Google will hate the fact that all your posts have reviews and all of them have affiliate links? Could a site like that could possibly be flagged or lose its rankings?

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Yusuke

12 years ago

Originally Posted by GGpaul

Interesting...Do you think Google will hate the fact that all your posts have reviews and all of them have affiliate links? Could a site like that could possibly be flagged or lose its rankings?

Regarding about this questions, I am not 100% sure but I think it should be fine with all posts having reviews since all affiliate links should be a "nofollow". However I may be wrong. So far I am having a mix for my site and I did not see any lost in the ranking.

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12 years ago

Originally Posted by Yusuke

Congratulations! When I was making about $50 in Amazon for my first month in April, I thought of leaving the site as it is and go do other things. However I remember people say that once you found something that work, just scale it up, so I decided to bring in more traffic to my site and my earnings keep on increasing month after month as you can see from attached.

There are still 2 more weeks to go and I'm already pass the $400 mark, I hope to do about $1000 per month for my site before moving on to create my next website. Let us all work towards the goal of getting out from the stupid rat race!

By the way, I have also learned a lot from wolfmii, thanks!

That's very good from one site. Just wondering, what is your backlinking strategy for your site? Now that penguin is out, it seems unclear as to what backlinks cause the penguin filter to trigger.

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Yusuke

12 years ago

Originally Posted by cooler1

That's very good from one site. Just wondering, what is your backlinking strategy for your site? Now that penguin is out, it seems unclear as to what backlinks cause the penguin filter to trigger.

I did not do any backlinks at all. I found that the more i post, the ranking of the posts where i posted in the beginning will also begin to rise in the search enging

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johnben1444

12 years ago

Congratulations on your newly found success.

Atleast now you have an idea of what works, fire on.

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NWJewelry

12 years ago

What is wolfmmiii? Also did you have a hard time being able to set up an Amazon shop? I heard you have to meet certain requirements to have an Amazon shop.

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Originally Posted by NWJewelry

What is wolfmmiii? Also did you have a hard time being able to set up an Amazon shop? I heard you have to meet certain requirements to have an Amazon shop.

He is member here.

@OP: Congrats on getting your first sale, keep going with what works for you to increase your sales.
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12 years ago

Can someone kindly guide me for amazon success. I think a few years and not even 50 is a shame

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GGpaul

12 years ago

My goal is to have at least 100 product reviews per Amazon niche site. I'm looking at a total of 4 to 5 websites. I'll see how I do. None of this is done with any type of backlinking strategy. Just good content and nothing to "schmooze" Google as Paulgl would say.

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GGpaul

12 years ago

P.S. - It says that I made another sale but I don't know why I didn't get credited? Any idea?

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Chrisbroholm 12 years ago

Originally Posted by GGpaul

P.S. - It says that I made another sale but I don't know why I didn't get credited? Any idea?

You probably already figured this one out, but you are not paid advertising fees before the item is shipped :-)
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  Originally Posted by Chrisbroholm
  
  You probably already figured this one out, but you are not paid advertising fees before the item is shipped :-)
  
  oOOOOOoo so once it's shipped I get paid? Then I guess I made a second sale! =D
  
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  oOOOOOoo so once it's shipped I get paid? Then I guess I made a second sale! =D
  
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12 years ago

@NWJewelry

The OP is talking about sites that use the Amazon affiliate program to earn commissions from visitors that go to Amazon from his site. Here's a guide to what you need to do to make money like this from Amazon.

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12 years ago

I am inspired. I also make use of Amazon affiliate through Squidoo and Hubpages and so far, sale is good....not an overnight thingy but definitely worth every effort.

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GGpaul

12 years ago

I'm already motivated just by talking about it with you guys. DEFINITELY GONNA SCALE UP AND UP. I don't care if it's a b**** to do, failure is no option. I'll sacrifice just to get to where I want to be.

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12 years ago

Originally Posted by GGpaul

I'm already motivated just by talking about it with you guys. DEFINITELY GONNA SCALE UP AND UP. I don't care if it's a b**** to do, failure is no option. I'll sacrifice just to get to where I want to be.

That's he spirit!

It's kind of funny, but 2-3 months from now the techniques you use will seem a bit funny and kinda backwards - that's real world experience kicking in.

I had a £391 (with a few pence) Adsense day yesterday (best day ever), and it's not even my main income source. Keep going bro. If you can keep this up, sky truly is the limit.

My advice for you right now would be to keep going - use that momentum that you've built up to your advantage. Otherwise, about a week from now, you'll be dealing with a full on emotional roller coaster when the excitement wears off and the reality kicks in. Been there as well.

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12 years ago

Originally Posted by bnetwork

That's he spirit!

It's kind of funny, but 2-3 months from now the techniques you use will seem a bit funny and kinda backwards - that's real world experience kicking in.

I had a £391 (with a few pence) Adsense day yesterday (best day ever), and it's not even my main income source. Keep going bro. If you can keep this up, sky truly is the limit.

My advice for you right now would be to keep going - use that momentum that you've built up to your advantage. Otherwise, about a week from now, you'll be dealing with a full on emotional roller coaster when the excitement wears off and the reality kicks in. Been there as well.

Yeah I remember getting my first adsense check. I never got another one since then lol!

Do any of you guys have any amazon sites with PURE on affiliate link contents? None with just information? Or is it a must that I SHOULD have some content with no affiliate links, but just valuable information?

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12 years ago

Originally Posted by GGpaul

Yeah I remember getting my first adsense check. I never got another one since then lol!

Do any of you guys have any amazon sites with PURE on affiliate link contents? None with just information? Or is it a must that I SHOULD have some content with no affiliate links, but just valuable information?

I have a link or two in most articles. The only time when I don't leave a direct aff. link is when I do "summary" posts with tons of links to reviews/other articles that do have aff. links.

Not sure if you're using this strategy, but look up "cornerstone pages". The same (modified) concept can be easily applied to product sites.

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12 years ago

Originally Posted by bnetwork

I have a link or two in most articles. The only time when I don't leave a direct aff. link is when I do "summary" posts with tons of links to reviews/other articles that do have aff. links.

Not sure if you're using this strategy, but look up "cornerstone pages". The same (modified) concept can be easily applied to product sites.

Ha! You read my mind. I just started doing that.

Like if I have products from "Sony"

I'll have a page on "Sony" with a summary and then I'll have a bunch of links that lead to anything that is Sony (Sony Laptop, Camera etc.).

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12 years ago

Originally Posted by GGpaul

Ha! You read my mind. I just started doing that.

Like if I have products from "Sony"

I'll have a page on "Sony" with a summary and then I'll have a bunch of links that lead to anything that is Sony (Sony Laptop, Camera etc.).

Nice. That's what I like to see - taking initiative and not moaning that things "just don't work". That's rare these days. Let us know when you hit $100/month.

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12 years ago

Originally Posted by bnetwork

Nice. That's what I like to see - taking initiative and not moaning that things "just don't work". That's rare these days. Let us know when you hit $100/month.

I'll let you know when it's $1,000/month! I'm already close to $100 with just from the two sales =X.

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12 years ago

Very nice Dear.
Congrats.

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12 years ago

congrats, for your first sale.
you just need duplicate/repeat them and also find a way to make it better

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ownergolan

12 years ago

Congratulations, this is surprisingly high conversion rate.
what theme do you use ? which amazon seller plugin ?

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GGpaul 12 years ago

Originally Posted by ownergolan

Congratulations, this is surprisingly high conversion rate.
what theme do you use ? which amazon seller plugin ?

I use DIY themes. I use one image to the left of the content, and two link texts. No widgets whatsoever.
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Jasonsc

12 years ago

Congrats on the first sale! It's a joyous feeling when you first realise that IM actually can work.

You sound like your definitely on the right track - I really like your attitude of building sites for the users rather than the search engines, and I think this is definitely the way forward.

You're off to a great start so try to continue to ride that momentum - but be aware that there will probably be days and weeks which are tough and were you'll feel like you want to give up again. But be persistent and you'll muddle through to the good days again. It's all about persistence.

You've a great attitude, so just keep up the good work and keep on providing that quality content that everyone loves so much!