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Amazon.com Affiliate Experiment
By Max | May 16, 2007
I replaced the Auction Ads advertisement on my website with an Amazon link to purchase an ipod. I want to see how the performance compares. My biggest complaint about the Auction Ads program is that you can’t reliably force it to display the exact item you want your traffic to see. A large part of Auction Ads revenue is getting people to purchase higher priced items since you earn a percentage. Amazon fixes this problem and the starting payout is 4%. They also have a “Used & New” program, so some of the prices are much less than retail which I hope will entice people to click the ad as much as they do the Auction Ads program. I’ll report my on my progress, and hopefully in 6 weeks I find that I am earning more with the Amazon affiliate program.
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May 16th, 2007 at 8:24 pm
This will be interesting to watch. The auction ads keeps a cookie that allows you to collect even if the item is not purchased immediately. If I remember correctly, Amazon affiliates requires that the purchase be made on the spot.
What do you mean by the starting payout is 4%. Does it change based on your sales?
May 17th, 2007 at 7:27 pm
Yes. If I sell 7 items I think I’ll start collecting 6%, and it may even go higher than that.
May 23rd, 2007 at 12:30 am
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September 18th, 2007 at 3:54 pm
I have tried long and hard to make a success of AuctionAds and failed! That is not to say that others have not had success I have read many reports of people making them work for their sites.
Amazon on the other hand, I am currently running some PPC campaigns with landing pages which eventually lead the user through to Amazon, they are doing very nicely and require very little maintenance, other than monitoring and tweaking the keywords etc.