Is Amazon worth using?

**audiomad** · 04-16-2008, 01:06 PM

Is Amazon worth using? I have almost completly stoped using adsence got fed up with getting 1cent a click at times I have never used Amazon before are they good pay outs or has anyone ever had any success with them?

**NaughtyGirl** · 04-19-2008, 02:13 PM

I've heard of people that did but never really got the low'down on it. It seems you can get a better commission by going straight through the publishers.

**wisdomtool** · 04-19-2008, 03:18 PM

I never managed a single sale with Amazon, at least for me it is not worth it.

**Moelman** · 04-20-2008, 02:48 PM

I've never had much success with amazon, don't use them anymore.

**wisdomtool** · 04-20-2008, 03:03 PM

I don't have any sales at all but I heard of others having a good time with them. They have a fantastic array of products, I guess if you have a niche web site you can try selling some of the corresponding products. Shd be quite profitable

**audiomad** · 04-21-2008, 03:23 AM

I had to remove it was causing so many problems with site page titles not showing and causing problems with other jave script programmes on my site.

**BamaStangGuy** · 04-21-2008, 05:27 AM

I've made one or two sales and that's it. Don't really have a site that fits into it's demographics.

**girlgeek** · 04-21-2008, 05:37 AM

Same here, had some sales with it. I just think the 1 day cookie is grossly unfair, because most people don't buy straight away. So when they go back to buy, you'll get nothing, but you did refer them in the first. I think you're missing out on a lot of commission. Just my 2 cents.

**jimmychen** · 05-22-2008, 09:11 AM

You can sometimes mix Ads on your site, just don't overdo it. This will eventually lead to ad blindness and low CTR. I would suggest that you settle for a few cents per click. Just improve on content and you can get better over time.

**kenvin** · 06-04-2008, 11:52 PM

I use Amazon and it's not very good for me. I'm still looking for anything that works. If anybody finds something please let me know. I think most surfers use search engines to go directly to the site.

**moody** · 06-05-2008, 02:42 PM

I've used amazon affiliates but unfortunately,I didn't manage to get any sales whatsoever.Mostly because my blog has insignificant traffic.

**willcode4beer** · 06-10-2008, 10:21 PM

I used to get pretty good success with amazon.
I would put ads to books that were related to articles in the articles.

Most of my stuff is programming how-to's. So links to books on specific subjects is a natural combination.

I think it works best if you get a minimum of 500 uniques per day and an average time on site greater than 5mins. That will get you a few books/day. Then, just grow from there.

I dropped them some time ago due to a philosophical issue.

**teampower** · 06-11-2008, 05:57 PM

i feel the same way

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Originally Posted by wisdomtool

I never managed a single sale with Amazon, at least for me it is not worth it.

**macdog** · 06-12-2008, 01:55 PM

Same Here no sales

**bollywoodhub** · 10-29-2008, 03:19 AM

if you have a good product and description and a good post for it with the right amazon ads. you can get people buying from your blog. i wrote a nice post and got a good enough response to make some money to a eepc laptop post .check it here

**saybrah** · 10-29-2008, 10:35 AM

i was discussing this with a client yesterday. the commissions are so low that i've never really dealt with it. for the site she's building it might payout

**mrasshat** · 10-30-2008, 04:32 AM

Amazon doesn't pay by bank deposit in Australia(Google does). So they send a cheque from the US, and deduct $15 from your earnings for the privilege.

That's why I don't use them. But if I was living in the US, I'd use both Amazon and Google to maximise my income.