Amazon First Sale
Update: September 6, 2019 - The original post was written February 18, 2019
The fear of getting dropped by Amazon
I've seen many comments about people being dropped by Amazon for not making enough sales in the first 180 days. Yes, some of those who get dropped may have jumped the gun in becoming an Amazon affiliate. Yes, it's best to wait until you create a bit of quality content and have some traffic going to your site before you apply to be an Amazon affiliate.
For those who have quality content, are consistent in posting, and are getting traffic, it can still be nerve racking waiting on that first sale - wondering if you are going to get 3 in 180 days.
If you do get dropped, the good news is that you can reapply.
Please pm me if you would like me to check out your site. Like many of you, I enjoy seeing what others have done. It's fun checking out the links that are within a post.
Keep...
Keep up the great work with your sites! Keep finding great keywords! Keep writing quality content! Keep being consistent!
"We become what we want to be By CONSISTENTLY being what we want to become each day." ~Richard G Scott
Thanks, peeps!
SuzaMarie
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I always thought of buying through members as well, I think this is a great idea to help benefit members. Then I found Erin's HEN Affiliates and Bibletoons for my daugter, Lilah who absolutely loves it. Erin even published a video of my review for her website. I think paying it forward here is a great benefit to the community.
p.s. I just checked.
US in 29/3/2017
DE, ES, FR, IT, in 11/11/2017
UK in 11/11/2017 out 13/11/2018
CA in !3/2/2018 out 14/5/2018
Well, can you explain that?
Greetings from the south of Spain, Taetske
Sorry, Taetske. No explanations from me. I wish I could help.
I'm not an Amazon affiliate...maybe sometime down the road.
Hopefully, a WA'er with more experience will come across this thread and be able to help. :)
Good Morning SuzaMarie,
Well, it does not really matter as one cannot change it anyhow. I will just continue as always and hope for a sale.
By the way, you might care to read my latest post as it will affect us all. The 5G Threat, What It Means To The Human Race Greetings from the south of Spain, Taetske
Hey Taetske!
I clicked on an Amazon link from your site. It took me to the .com version of their site so I should be able to place and order. I'll let you know when I do so you can check to see if you received credit for it. I should be placing another order with in the next week or two.
I'll check out your post on 5G...thanks for sharing.
Thank you SuzaMarie, that sounds really nice.
Tell me please with what can I make you happy?
Greetings from the south of Spain, Taetske
Hi, unfortunately, I too have received the 'dreaded' email from Amazon regarding insufficient sales. After joining the Amazon Affiliate, I soon realized I jumped in way too early, eager to get my site monetized before it was anywhere near ready. The situation I find myself in now is that I require two more sales to satisfy Amazon!
I am in the UK, so if anyone is going to be using Amazon UK shortly! I would be more than happy to return the favor and purchase something through your website as I regularly use Amazon. Drop me a PM, and we can exchange details. Good Luck everyone.
Jo
Hey Jo!
Are you using OneLink with your Amazon affiliate account? If so, it will detect that I'm from the US and take me to that site. You will still get credit for the sale.
If you're not using it, you can get info on Amazon's website about it since it's a part of their program.
Let me know, I'm sure I'll be placing another order in the next week or so.
SM
Good Morning SuzaMarie,
I know some Canadian people who come on holiday to Spain. They ordered through my website and it was not recognized by Amazon. I just wonder how they know I have a coffee with these people when they are here.
They have not kicked me out and I have never made a sale, go figure.
Greetings from the south of Spain, Taetske
Hey Taetske! Good morning!
I'm in no way an Amazon expert - I'm not even an affiliate with them - But, I wonder if it has to do with the type of account you have with them.
I wasn't able to order through one person's site because it sent me to amazon.uk. As long as their site takes me to amazon.com, I can order. I haven't heard of anyone not getting credit. I've done this 4 or 5 times so far.
Hopefully someone with more knowledge will comment on this.
I appreciate you sharing your experience!
All the best,
SM
First I signed up for Amazon. com in 2017
In 2018 I signed up for all the other countries. I was kicked out of Canada and the UK after the 180 days.All the others still like me.
As I am far from being technical had to look up this One Link as it is my better half who does things like that.
Greetings from the south of Spain, Taetske
It may be worth looking into.
I bought through someone's UK site a week or so ago. I had no issues with Amazon recognizing where I was from. The ordering process was easy just like it always is. I checked with the person today and they did get credit for the sale.
Good luck with it!
Most if not all of my posts in two websites are Amazon products since day one. Okay...now we are saying we need to wait till we have quality with our content before we sign up with Amazon as affiliates.
This tells me I may be in for more headaches since I have been dropped by Amazon once for failing to meet the 3 sales in 180 days. I am on my second affiliate account! And to date I have got zero for sales which could mean I do not have enough quality content or I am simply not getting seen yet!
So I suppose I need to do something different so at least I get 3 sales so I could keep the present Amazon affiliate account!
What say you my fellow WA warriors?
Thanks in advance for the feedback!
Joe
One thing you can do is ask your friends to follow one of your links just before buying from Amazon. You get credit for whatever they buy from Amazon, assuming yours was the last affiliate link they followed and they buy within 24 hours of following it. They don't have to buy the item you linked to.
Hello there Scott!
Interesting feature by Amazon! You get the credit even if the purchase is NOT through your link! I wonder how they track the purchaser to have been at your website 24 hours or less ago!? Cookies?
And the buyer or buyers cannot be friends or family, is this true?
Thanks for the info!
Joe
No, they must follow your link first. That installs a cookie that lives for 24 hours. Anything they buy from Amazon in that time period, assuming they don't follow someone else's link, you get credit for.
They follow your link, browse to another item and buy it.
Hey Joe! The way I approach my online business - an approach learned from the training's here at WA - content is most important. I am to write quality content consistently. Consistency is key. Consistently posting quality content will lead to traffic. Once traffic is coming, affiliate partnerships can be added.
Go ahead and add you web address here in comments. Let the community help you get that first sale.
SM
Okay, adding my websites here. Here they go:
https://toystoolsandtech.com/
https://greensunstorage.com/
https://homebasedaffiliateonlinebiz.com/ - In development by a web developer to promote Wealthy Affiliate.
Thanks Suzanne!
Joe
Every time I see the comments 'make consistent posts with great content' I get to wonder, is it content with our niche sites or our blogs content or both.
So since we do not sell anything through our blogs, I am saying it must be the niche website content we are to persistently, consistently make quality content.
What say you my fellow WAW (Wealthy Affiliate Warriors).
Joe
Hey Joe!
When you say "blogs content," are you talking about the posts on your niche website or the posts you write here on WA?
btw...I was happy to be your first. LOL! Here's to many more amazon sales!
Ha ha ha... indeed you are my first Suze! Imagine nine months in WA and zero sales and you came to my rescue! Thanks a TON!
I noticed you have not published any of your websites here at WA Dashboard. : )
Joe
Must be part of the suspense, following the 'script'. Looking forward to seeing and reading your secret websites. : )
Joe
Hi just a question :
when back in time I had a web page with Amazon
if some one of my client/traffic clicked on my add for a product of course ( affiliate Product) and got redirected to the Owner of the product and he will have purchased that product later of 24 hour since clicked to the product on my page ,well I will get not commission ! it s rule still in place for Amazon ? or it s changed!
By the way before I do get some affiliate products on my web page I want to make sure that I create/got enough traffic to get sales !
thank you and have a good day
Hey Pietro!
If someone gets to Amazon by clicking on a link from your website, that Amazon "cookie" will live for 24 hours. If that person purchases anything within 24 hours you will get credit for the sale.
Please come back and post your site once you get setup with Amazon again.
Have a great day!
SM
Hi SuzaMaria so it s the some as it was !
thank you for confirming ...
if I do get again set up with Amazon I will for sure
post my site here !
thank you
Build your sites out first with content,daily you can always plug in to Amazon down the road,must have traffic,fresh content = traffic
I absolutely agree with you Stephen! We need to consistently add quality content to our sites. Once we start getting traffic we can add affiliate partnerships.
I started this thread to help those that are doing it the right way... following the training and writing quality content consistently. I hope that by supporting them with a sale that's going to be made anyway, it will help take a little of the pressure off.
I appreciate your comments!
Hello, SuzaMarie, and thank you for your post.
I think my 180 day 3 sales is about to end if it hasn't already expired. About a month ago, I had one (1) month left before Amazon was going to disqualify me from their program (according to an email from them).
I sent Kyle a message expressing my concern AFTER tons of work had gone into my site, Kyle emphasized I could reapply once my site was completed (despite) I had products already on the site. I am still in the same situation now as I was back then.
And I'm not sure whether or not I have been disapproved because I haven't made any sales. What are your suggestions. Here is the URL to my Web site. https://mybaldheads.com - Also keep in mind that I am still working on the site.
I also think it's "counter productive" to create a site first and then apply for Amazon's associate program.
If doing tings that way by getting traffic to a site that doesn't have any products to offer. That would take away the credibility you're trying to build on. In addition, you wouldn't be able to get your "referral links" (affiliate links) to the products for placement on your website.
It sort of like "you're dammed if you do and you're dammed if you don't" kind of thing. I'm still open for any helpful/resolving solutions :)
KevinR
YOU ARE SO AMAZING Ellen :) I just may have a chance to get my site going. You are the GREATEST!!! Lot's of Luv and prayers coming your way. And IF you need me to help you in any way. Don't you hesitate to let me know and I will be HAPPY to help.
Hey Kevin!
The training here works...there are sooo many examples that it does. Here are a few: Wealthy Affiliate Success Stories - Make money from internet marketing Even though it seems "counter productive" to build our sites first and then add affiliates, I think that's what we need to do.
Don't let FOMO, Fear Of Missing Out, get to you. We must add quality content to our sites consistently. This will help get us traffic. Once the traffic starts to come, we can start forming affiliate relationships and go back and add the links to our sites.
Don't worry about possibly missing a couple of sales by not having affiliate links in the beginning.
Content is king! Having a few posts on our sites will not help drive traffic. Many people didn't start seeing traffic until they had 20+ posts up on their site.
Continue to work on producing quality content and following the training. Consistency is key.
I'm glad to see Ellen was able to help you out with a sale.
All the best,
SM
This is soooo helpful. It's just what I needed to hear. You are soooo right, SuzaMarie, content is KING. Now that you've provided me w/additional need-to-know info. I'll go to work on producing remarkable content :)
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I have been trying out the Amazon popover, that is a neato tool. Also, I am not sure how I haven't been removed as an Affiliate because I haven't made a single sale yet. I just revised menu on the website to make it easier to navigate and thought of making a store tab on there, so here is my site: nursebeccaconsulting.com
I will be looking for something to pay it forward on this thread as well.
Thanks for posting your site!
Youre surely Welcome☺ im still working on it. I do not like the Semrush running into the arrow on the bottom right. It maybe a dingle (that is a Google ding)
Here is a Paper Towel link. It is a short read, as I am trying to make posts of varying legths.
https://nursebeccaconsulting.com/viva-paper-towels-review/
Thanks, Becca!