Kicked by amazon :
Hi guys! Need your help here!
Yesterday I was the happiest duck in the pool! I received my first amazon referal, and I have earned 1.97 fair an square.
I was in the clouds!!
This morning everything went black...
I received this...
" Hello,
Thank you for applying for the Associate program. Upon review, we are unable to accept your application. A part of our criteria is that your site has to be established with enough unique content. We rejected your application due to one or more of the following reasons.
- Lack of content which is original to your site and beneficial to your visitors
- Pages that are mainly empty when advertisement content is removed
geekassemble.com/
Unfortunately, we arent able to review an application once its been rejected. If your website has been further developed and now contains appropriate content, youre welcome to submit another application by using the following URL:" bla bla bla
Have you guys being in this sopt?
Any advice?
Warm regards!!!
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Well - I've never had this happen, but, I've been around long enough to know that for all of the work and effort and time put into getting site visitors to click on an Amazon link ... there's just not enough payout (at least for me).
So - I refocused my attention to affiliate programs that pay more for referrals and am pleased with the return.
Then again, if your entire online business is based on Amazon, then just add content and resubmit. I'm not trying to dissuade you ... simply letting you know there are other fish in the sea that pay more for your hard work.
You'll need to do some research to find affiliates in your niche, but one of my affiliate programs pays almost 50%. Being an affiliate for WA pays a nice fee, too.
Hope all this helps and much luck to you! Just remember - it's all one day at a time.
~Cathy
Agreed. JVZoo has some good products. Clickbank seems to be filled with what I would call crazy stuff. I buy a product, make sure it works and is worthwhile and then promote it. Of course your own digital products and the best of all. You keep 100% or you make an affiliate deal and let others sell your product.
Clickbank is all digital stuff but the gravity on a few of them is really good. I look for a gravity of at least 50 though some folks go anything above 20. Am still working to figure out all the ins and outs before committing to anything at CB though.
Well SantiagoGP, after I "shot my mouth off" below, I had a look at your site and must say that Amazon is right. There is very kittle original content and a lot of commonly available diatribe about movies, available books and so on, a lot of stuff anyone can download from just about anywhere on the net. I am sure that is what they are eluding to! Try and put much more of your own spin on these pages and try not to repeat the same thing on just about every page (maybe cut down on the links). I hope that my suggestions will help and get you back on track with Amazon (a big money maker on anyone's site).
Well, it just shows you who Amazon is run by! Gangsters! They have conveniently figured out how to screw the "little" guy out of the crumbs that make a huge avalanche for them! Go figure and what can we do? We could avoid Amazon. But then what? They won't suffer. We would suffer!
So, the moral of the story, just sit it out, or improve the content of your site!
Build up your site. There are plenty of other products out there looking for affiliates. Find a product website in your niche and promote it thru that site.
it is tricky to run their ads on a website and meet their criteria, however, the commissions are terrible anyway but its all about volume. Amazon are not gangsters they are just a very big company who attract massive public visits and are trusted which make their platform brilliant for people selling their own physical products. This is where they Excell. All the best :)
It still makes them Gagsters. How do people become gangsters? By getting too big for their shoes!
Well, we could be our own amazon-like store.
All I do with amazon is shop.
Nothing else.
I see that too. A few pennies do add up.
Have you reached out to Amazon to ask further questions to see how you can remedy this? Can't believe this happened, your site has content. Seems strange.
Yes it did happen to me a while back but I went back and added a lot of content to each page and resubmitted then it went through. You cannot just have a lot of products pasted all over your pages you need to create one post reviews of each product or have a few on each as comparisons.
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First of all, let say a huge thanks you for all of you who have left a comment in this blog I posted. Even though I disagree with some of you, I really appreciate you have taken the time to help in this moment. WA comunity rocks!!!
Im kind of lost here, since I have spoken to an amazon guy, and he told me that I need content that "should take 3 or 4 hours to be read".
I think we all can search and put a link to a niche site that has even less content than mine and still be making money with amazon.
I feel really sad, because I did put a lot of hard work in this site, and II do feel visitors enjoy it.
Thanks again guys for all your encouragement and advice! This is only a minor setback, I will be on my feet in no time :)
Same happened to me. I added more content and they accepted me.
No problem. Good Luck and don't be discouraged. You'll get referrals again!