Advertsing with Amazon

[Cloverfield]

Well, I'm just about to advertise with Amazon. It looks like when you start out, you get 5% of whatever you sell, however, it raises more and more the more products you sell. I'm getting tired of Adsense so thought I would introduce another way of making money on my forum. Hopefully it works.

 

[Fergal]

Good luck with it, I had Amazon ads on a static site a few years ago. This is when they had the old commission structure with commissions of up to 15%, it worked out quite well when the site was busy. Hopefully it will work for you. Please keep us posted.

 

[Null-11]

Registered a few days ago and just got accepted. I'm looking forward to trying out Amazon affiliate ads myself.

 

[Nitro]

I just joined them about a week ago.

Put up some ads. I too hope it works out well.

 

[Antarctic]

We had those type of ads on CMF once, they didn't work out all that well, don't think we got any sales.

 

[Cloverfield]

Yeah, I guess you need a stupidly active forum to make money from it. I might get rid of it.

 

[Antarctic]

Yeah, it all depends on the type of forum/website too. If your forum has mostly kids, they won't have money to spend, to make money from those sort of ads you need a site like IMDB or something on the lines of that.

But, on the other hand, if you could offer some sort of discounted price on the actual item, you may get more sales, but i don't know how you would go about doing that.

 

[JamesD31]

Yeah, it all depends on the type of forum/website too. If your forum has mostly kids, they won't have money to spend, to make money from those sort of ads you need a site like IMDB or something on the lines of that.

But, on the other hand, if you could offer some sort of discounted price on the actual item, you may get more sales, but i don't know how you would go about doing that.

I don't think affiliate ads do that, but if you join an affiliate network (like I am part of all the top affiliate networks) some companies give you links / banners that when clicked give the clients actual discounts. Though, like he said above, it depends on your forums. If your users spend a lot of money buying stuff online (whatever that product since Amazon has it all) then you will be making more money then that money from the AdSense clicks. What I would do in your case is get a advertisement rotation system -- the best that I use and know of is http://www.openx.org 🙂

 

[spyka]

Amazon is a great way to monetize content you already have.

For example, on my X Factor website I had a page of all the songs performed and decided to add Amazon links to buy them. Obviously 5% of a 99p MP3 isn't that much, but it all adds up. Throughout the show I made £40. Not that much, but it'll pay the domain name and a bit of the hosting - and remember: I didn't actually have too add anything to my site, I just monetized the content that was already there.

The other thing of course is that the tracking cookie means you may get paid for stuff you don't even advertise. For example, I received commison on a Nintendo Wii bundle, books, DVDs, Games and all sorts - all this from just adding a link to buy an MP3 song.

So it can give you some extra cash, but don't expect to make a living off of it

 

[chattaboxforums]

Anyone got a direct link to the part on amazon where to apply? I can't find it

 

[GamerPerfection]

Anyone got a direct link to the part on amazon where to apply? I can't find it

https://affiliate-program.amazon.co.uk/

Yeah Amazon Associates can be a tough one to earn from as people have to buy stuff rather than just click. i have it as a widget on the front of my site, but i also put a text link to products at the end of my reviews and trailers for pre-orders. I do this so that when someone finishes reading a review if they are interested in it then the link to buy it is right there at the end of the review.