Got the dreaded "90 Day Notification" from Amazon today
In case you don't know, Amazon let you know in 90 days if you have not gotten any sales and tell you that you have 90 more to get a sale or you are out! I JUST GOT MINE.
Talk about devastated! I was so disappointed in myself that I had no Amazon sales in this amount of time. I have been working Hard! By the way, I have been at this for about a hundred days.
Then I started looking back at my reviews that I was getting no sales on. Was there "room for improvement"?
Then I had a Catharsis! My posts were "Substandard". Meaning from what I know NOW, they were junk! Content Sucked and so did my SEO.
The good news? I now have the TOOLS to fix things and get on track. So, my plans are to do just that! Take what I NOW know and go back and rebuild.
If you are not getting many sales, I suggest you take a close look at those posts that you did early on in your Wealthy Affiliate Training and see if there is room for improvement. My bet is that you will see what I see in mine.
LOTS OF ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT!
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HI Clyde, Thank you for bringing this up!! I am still in the process of taking off and indeed - You have to pay the closest attention to SEO .. and at the same time not overdo it.
Quite a fascinating challenge.
This is spot on advice, brother. You're like Neo in the Matrix, you look around and all you see is code and SEO in cascading numbers everywhere lol.
Awesome blog post, Clyde.
awesome insight, often when we start out we are gung ho but our writing is well as you so eloquently put it sub-standard. Any post has room for improvement so it might be time to go back and do some soul searching.
Hi Clyde,
I got that same email a few days ago. I guess it was an eye opener for me too. I have since then rethought my whole approach. I do have some substandard posts hanging on my website that need a lot of improvement and I am going to do something about it. Let do this!! :)
100 days is nothing. Amazon may put pressure on you after 90, but that's just how they roll. Good to see you're taking it in stride and revamping your efforts. Keep us posted, Clyde!
It's a learning curve. I read a post...can't remember who...that suggested not to apply to Amazon until you are getting good traffic.
Thanks for sharing. Debbie
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I think your SEO optimization improvement of your reviews is the classic "Geek" first thought. I have been more successful by not only doing this, but more importantly improving my funnel.
A funnel is the marketing concept of leading the prospective customer to the review, I mean sure Google does this to a fairly small extent, but a very interesting post or page that links to the review where appropriate, is much better in my experience.
I am now getting regular purchases at Amazon and Ebay fro click throughs from my content oriented posts.
Yes Robert, I understand what you are saying. It is the interesting informational posts that drive things to the reviews. Because of my Pacemaker Insertion and not having internet since we got to Egypt, I have not been able to post a thing! Alas, my 180 day went by and Amazon deleted my affiliate account.
Priorities change in life by our circumstances. I am slowly getting back to blogging after a two month absence.
I have other ideas and it will all work out.
Clyde
you can reapply at any time
Did not know that
Thanks