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Hey Warriors,
Due to an increasing number of requests recently i decided to share strategies to help you build a business as an amazon affiliate. Fair warning. This post of based on my experiences and actual results only. Everything i share i continue to do and make money. There could be better methods out there so don’t take this as the only blueprint.
Most of my finding will be contrary to what you may have learnt or could be experiencing yourself. BTW – i consistently make high three figures each day and four figures depending on timing.
For those of you who are wondering how to make money.
Here is how i do it as an amazon affiliate.
I hope you enjoyed the outsourcing call this morning.
As a quick recap here is what we covered:
1. Use elance to find $2 an hour employees
2. Use the negotiation strategy to get hubs written for $2 an article or to find $2 an hour employees
3. Swipe the tracking sheet template to manage the outsourced employees on a daily basis
4. Just look at your numbers everyday and make sure all you doing is market research and you are making more than spending
5. You spend 10 minutes of your time your employees work 2 hours and it turns into a $2000 a month business
Let me a comment below and let me know what you liked about the call.
Thanks
Neil
A key challenge in promoting products and making money is finding buying keywords.
Buying keywords are words that your prospective customer types into Google and looking for a hot product to buy immediately.
Most online marketers when starting to make money online find this entire process of finding buying keywords complicated.
It is not your fault. There are so many tools, courses and methods of finding the right keywords to use that you may feel you are drowning in a sea of keyword research.
And it does not end there.
When you eventually spend the hours and sometimes days to find the right keywords to promote your products, these keywords may not convert into sales.
And then you have wasted time and effort and seems like you are running in a hamster cage with no money in sight.
Amazon Keyword Research Tip
And that is why I like to promote amazon products and earn money now without needing to do any major keyword research.
You see items that appear in the bestseller list of amazon are actually keywords themselves.
So yes, they actual product name is the keyword.
So take for example if amazon has a product description called Bright Cove TV 4150 HD LCD Screen (I just made this up).
So the entire product name “Bright Cove TV 4150 HD LCD Screen” is your long tail keyword.
There is no need to guess or do more research.
Amazon has figured out exactly what your customer wants now.
And when customers searches in google…
…I am talking about buying customers, guess what they do?
The type in the exact long tail product description above and start their search.
So all of this information is available for you.
All you have to do is create a single hub page. Copy and paste this description into the hub pages and then write and promote your hub with your affiliate link pointing to Amazon.
And when someone clicks on this, you get paid.
It does not get any easier that this than searching for buying keywords to make money now.
And one more tip. Before you use the keyword and product description, make sure you check to see if the product is hot and you will make money in the short term.
There are some quick and fast ways to test these keywords and once you get your own way of validating them, then you will be on your way to success and take away the mystery behind keyword research that gets customers to open up their wallets and buy now.
If you have been promoting products and trying to make money online then you know that if you pick the right product you on your way to making money fast and easy online.
There are so many tools and market research methods that you can immediately get drowned in a sea of information and your hopes and dreams of replacing your full time day job is crushed online.
Fortunately there is an easy way to do this.
And I am about to reveal a quick example of how this works. But make no mistake this sounds easy.
And it is. But it is one of the most powerful techniques you can apply today to make money in the next 30 days.
Bottom Up Amazon Money Getting Strategy
If you ever go to the shopping mall you jump in your car and know exactly where’s your end destination. You do not jump in and start driving around and looking for a mall right? You have a clear outcome of your goal.
In this method we start off with Amazon instead of work our way back. Amazon is one of the biggest product research houses on the net and gives you good buying information. If you figure out how to get this information, there are many ways to this, you can start ramping your efforts.
I use this method when all I want to do is promote a hot product and create product specific blogs.
Lets say I know a toy niche is a long term niche.
So here is what I do, I quickly test to see if I can sell the toy. Also, not only am I using the long tail product name in hub pages I am using more keywords from google as TAGs to so that I can include this in my product specific blog to get keywords to use for my blog.
If the product has 5 other toys associate with it I will only test one or 2 of the toys to get started.
So for example lets say it is ZHU Zhu Pets.
I will test Squiggles or Zhu Zhu pets hamster house. If it is selling well I made money, I now have the keywords that I have tested and products to promote.
So I build a blog.
Create posts. Any new products associated with this product e.g numnums instead of testing on Hub pages I would create as a sub directory and push out quickly on my blog (because blog has ranking power now). I can create as many sub domains as I want.
This is my product specific blog strategy and I call it bottom up is because I am using product information directly from Amazon to sell.
Hint, works very well during seasonal time when you know from Amazon what products are going to sell.
If you are paying attention this year you will get a list of toys to promote around the end of September each year for the hottest toys for Christmas. I use this list to start on this.
This can be applied to any product. Just used a toy example here.
Now sometimes if product is selling well not only will I put up sub – directory pages but will also put up hub page and other social media pages like facebook. The more properties you have the more you can scale this up and make more money online.
The biggest challenge you will face when getting started is taking that first step. So head on to Amazon, just pull out your first product from the bestseller list and get started today.
Within a few months you will be on your way to 3 figures a day.
If you would like to learn had to become a super amazon affiliate click here now.
Here is a set of questions that I received from FredFarns. I wanted to share my response to these questions and show you how using this simple technique can get you off to a great start and ultimately to helping you make money online with the fast start technique.
“I’m not new to IM, but you have a different twist on it. Of course there are details, and questions.. Here goes..
1) I’m not experienced with hub pages. Is your strategy to get the hub page indexed in Google, to get Google search traffic for the hub page?
2) How do you get back-links, are they comment posts on blogs?
3) Then you “Build a quick blog – wordpresss blog.” Is this on your own domain, or are you using the free wordpress blogging service on their own server?
4) Do you make a separate blog for each product, or just separate posts all on the same blog?
5) What do you put in the blog, is product description and product reviews, re-written?
There are more questions, but I don’t want to overwhelm you.
FredFarnes”
Thanks for not overwhelming me with questions, I appreciate it J
The biggest secret that I learnt online is that 90% of the Amazon products I promote will make very few dollars each day. However the 10% of Amazon products that are winners that will makes me hundreds and sometimes thousands of dollars a day.
So I had to figure out a way to make sales and find the winning products first before I invested money and time upfront. Early on I spent so much money on domains that I used up all my profits without taking a dime from this business.
One day I figured that I could use free web 2.0 sites that can act as a temporary blog to test Amazon products and find the 10% of the products that made money so that I can scale this later.
Of all the sites that I tested, I found hub pages we good for a few reasons to help me make money now
1. It was free
2. My hubs could rank high very fast when I promoted this the right way
3. Just by putting up a page and linking directly to amazon I could easily start promoting amazon products in a few hours
4. Google considers hub to be an authority sites and the pages get indexed faster than my blogs
Therefore I came up with this unique method and used hub as a starting point for my promotions
So to answer your questions directly
1) I’m not experienced with hubpages. Is your strategy to get the hub page indexed in google, to get google search traffic for the hub page?
Yes, i quickly get them indexed, social bookmark, rss feed them. Hub pages rank well for me. Remember i am doing a quick test to see if product sells.
Also, there techniques allow you to get natural traffic from hub pages and use the hub pages engine to get you views without too much seo effort.
And yes, i do some promotion to get Google traffic.
Remember these product keywords are extreme long tail. You get results or not quickly.
I create pages, do some basic promo, leave them for weeks, watch my amazon account and see if i made sales.
Key to fast results – i have 40 -50 different product pages going on a one time. Some of them convert others don’t. I still make money with each one on the odd sales.
You just need to get started and ball rolling. In fact use any social media property that works for you. I have spent so much time in hub that i kind of figured some cool ways to do some testing quickly. Use your imagination. In peak season (back to school, holidays, the traffic rocks with some basic work on hub)
This is just the testing phase
2) How do you get back-links, are they comment posts on blogs?
I do basic stuff, forum posts, bookmarking, some articles and some basic promotion tools – i use Software tools like evo 11 while others use seo nuke. A few hours and i get some basic promotion done.
Now i have a specific back link plan in place.
But just basic stuff when i am in the testing phase.
3) Then you “Build a quick blog – wordpresss blog.” Is this on your own domain, or are you using the free wordpress blogging service on their own server?
Hmm, good question. I use my own wordpress on a hosted domain. I did not try the free version though this may work.
Remember i have made sales so now i go forth and buy domain.
However with Amazon’s own information you will get a gut feel of what is working over time and go ahead and buy a few names and let the domain mature for a few months.
4) Do you make a separate blog for each product, or just separate posts all on the same blog?
I do both depends on the situation. Lets take an example, if it is digital cameras and i sold a few on Amazon and want to go for it in the long term, then make many posts on all different types on this blog.
The goal is to get your site an authority site so your posts get naturally high ranking. This is the equivalent of posting on Hub. But that takes time and effort.
Now if i see if a product is doing really well and has long term potential…it could be in top 100 bestseller for 400 or 500 days then i buy a domain around that and all most posts are related to that one product.
I will usually have about 30 posts to start off then start link building etc. I know this product may be around for a few years. Otherwise, just use hub, social media dominate for a short-term move on.
My view. Please just forget about the technology for a moment. Ask yourself can i make money on product (not anyone but me), if i can how can i get as traffic directly to the product (then decide on your
platform – social media (short term, blog for long term, then promote this).
I am getting good at wordpress and it works for me. If you are good at blogger and works, then go for it.
The more you focus on technology the less sales you make when getting started. Once you sell then focus on scaling with technology to make money.
Why spend time of technology or anything when you did not even make one sale.
I am saying this because this is what i did myself and wasted my life savings and had to start from ground zero. Make a sale first, then figure out technology last.
5) What do you put in the blog, is is product description and product reviews, re-written?
My Amazon philosophy is simple. People who want amazon products are already buyers. I have no intention of convincing them to buy. I know they want it or they are just browsers.
I just make them feel good buying and tell them why they are making a smart decision so they can justify to their friends and significant other.
So for example (this is going to be crazy so stick with me here. Say you are selling womens Haines underwear on your blog) with a link to amazon.
My audience is female. So i would say something like how this is going to make her feel sexy and when her man sees her he is going to want her more. She can feel flirty and comfortable at the same time. Here are what others on amazon are saying about it.
So i go to amazon reviews, see why people have bought, rewrite the same thing and make them feel good about buying and point to those testimonials.
Please note, this is not false blog review or false testimonials. I write in a way that is ethical what others are experiencing on amazon and more importantly i justify their decision to buy.
Whether you want to use review format, product descriptions is up to you. BTW,who ever feels excited about buying when they read a product description.
If selling the iphone which is hot right now..
The iphone has 500 applications for you vs. if you are in another city, no need for gps, fire up your iphone with tom tom app and your coworkers will think you are a natural genius and well travelled guy. You know you made the smart decision by buying iphone and downloading app.
Giving a visual of what you can do with the product is better than listing features.
This is the fastest way to get started and make money online.
Thanks for the great questions
