Out of Time for Amazon! What Now? My Strategy So Far
I won’t be approved for Amazon Associates this time around. My 90 days are up on the 19th of September. In the previous 3 months, I have made just over 2 quid. Traffic’s still low though.
This past week, I’ve been approved or whitelisted for another program that seems a good fit for my site. Pays around $30 bucks per sale. There’s a banner available. Another 2 affiliate programs are UK based paying £5 and £6 recurring monthly.
Essentially, this past week, I’ve made an attempt to put money links site wide.
For each of them, I have banners - one I had to make myself. I had already created a child theme and now I’ve coded it to show the banners at 20%, 50% and 80% of the content length. Essentially, for a 1,000 word post, the first banner will show after 200 words, the 2nd after 500 words, and the 3rd after 800 words.
Those banners are excluded from my review category, which are where I publish the roundup posts for Amazon products.
My strategy is to publish 10 info or problem > solution posts for every round up one and use them to funnel traffic to the money (Amazon) posts. With the banner ads in place on the info posts, I get the benefit of affiliate ad placement while also building the internal links to funnel readers to the product posts.
That’s the strategy, now a question…
For Amazon Associates… will I have to reapply after the 19th of September? (the 90-day qualification window)
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I understand your problem with Amazon, Robert
What I would consider is working towards steady traffic instead of worrying about Amazon, once you have a good flow of traffic you might then reapply. You can keep reapplying if you desire to until you are approved, either method is alright.
You need traffic before you can earn much income,
Jeff
Thanks Jeff. I will do. I'm going through the core training from the start since it's been revised. Just done an info post with the standard blog template. A few tweaks, and relevant internal links added, then published.
Hello Robert
Sounds like a good idea to go through the core training again, I will sometimes do the same just to refresh my memory or learn something newly added.
Jeff
I lost my first Amazon Associate account. Luckily at the time, I wasn’t adding affiliate links yet. No big deal.
On the 2nd round, it was getting close to being closed again. I know this is frowned upon, but I gathered friends from around town, got them to purchase by sending them to my site, and clicking on a link. If I didn’t have what they wanted, I just added it inside the post, just as long as it was related to the topic. At this point, I had links spread out over 2 different sites and it would’ve been a major pain in the a$$ to go delete all of them.
That’s how I saved my Amazon Associate account. I’m not telling you what to do, just sharing with you what I had to do.
Hey Robert - Going to be blunt here..
Banners don't convert *
So all the effort and time you put into building a child theme, placing them in various content areas will have minimal effect on conversions.
If this is what you were doing for your Amazon links, then this explains the lack of sales.
WHAT TO DO INSTEAD:
* Create a Bottom Line paragraph about the product
* Add a strong Call to Action (CTA) after the Bottom Line paragraph
See the screenshot for reference.
Hope this helps!
Jay
*Reason why banners are no longer effective is that they look too much like ads which visitors glaze over.
Thanks Jay.
The banners are disabled on the Reviews pages - the ones with the Amazon links. I used the roundup style of writing for those. This way > How to Write a Roundup Article Figured I'd try the banners on the info posts instead of taking the AdSense route. It looks like the core training (revised) doesn't have that anymore anyway. I was going for the Mediavine style - scroll so far, then an ad block appears. Just on info posts though. Sounds like I'd be as well removing the banners and making the internal linking stronger on info posts. And, obviously, do stronger CTAs on those roundups. Cheers for that pic btw. Makes it clearer what to do.
Thanks again!
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Don't worry if they cancel your account if you haven't reached the required 3 sales in 90 days as you can always just reapply. when you do you will get new affiliate links and then would have to replace your old ones you had.
When I first started like many was too eager and join Amazon with hardly much content and got my account with Amazon closed 3 times due to the lack of 3 dales in that period.
Finally after re-appling 3 times I finally made the sales as during that time I also focused more on creating useful content and more of them to get followers which is the main issue online.
No followers, no one visiting you therefore no use having affiliate links if no one is seeing your site.
So best to focus on creating more content that benefits your readers and get those followers on your site and then go for the affiliate links.
Wishing you well
Andre