Amazon Affiliate Program – Yahoo! Answers

Chris asks…

Affiliate and CPM Blog?

Hello.

I read about CPM, cost per thousand.
I understand that you will get paid every 1,000 visits in my blog with this ad.
If I want to apply for this type of ad, do I have to first do like an interview or evaluation?
Ex) Do I have to give my Blog URL and show them which space I’m going to put their ad?
They determine/change the price by the number of access on my blog I usually have, right?

Another question is about Amazon affiliate program.
Basically, there is an option that lets me find a product from amazon and put an ad of that product, right?
Is this recommended at all?

I’m thinking about having 1 CPM ad, a affiliate from membership service in a website, and another 1 or 2 at most.

Thank you.
I am studying to work with web development, so I have some idea of SEO and am interested in learning more by actually having this blog for first time.
This blog is gonna be about anime, so the affiliate I wanna have will be related to anime.
I am studying to work with web development, so I have some idea of SEO and am interested in learning more by actually having this blog for first time.
This blog is gonna be about anime, so the affiliate I wanna have will be related to anime.

One additional question:
Would it be better to start blog with 1 or 2 affiliate ads, and after there is some constant access, add CPM and maybe additional affiliate?

I read that not having any ads in beginning is not good because you lose chance and some of repeat readers can feel disappointed to see ads when later I add.

Yahoo answers:

Yes, there are ads where you can earn money by just having them sit there — these are usually called CPM (Cost Per Mille = cost per thousand impressions) or pay-per impression ads. However, in practice, to make much money this way you will need to have many thousands of visits per month to your blog.

If your traffic gets to this level, in most cases you will be able to make more money through contextual (AdSense, YPN, Chitika, Bidvertiser, etc.) ads anyway.

Two other revenue sources you can look at are CPA (Cost Per Action) offers and affiliate marketing. Most CPA offers consist of getting leads (that is, the user has register for something by supplying an email address, zip code, or other info) and are theoretically easier than affiliate marketing because you don’t need to generate a sale, only a submission of one or more forms. However, CPA offers usually pay less than affiliate sales do.

Affiliate marketing is generally better than CPA stuff in terms of revenue potential, but to get the sales you will need to think about who your visitors are and match up your content with some type of product that has an affiliate program. There are tons of affiliate programs out there; just sign up with Clickbank, Commission Junction, and/or Amazon and you will have more products to promote than you will know what to do with.

If you manage to acquire some search engine optimization (SEO) skills, all of the above ways of generating revenue will become much easier because you will be able to attract targeted traffic to your blog. With targeted traffic and a little bit of market research, you will be better able to convert visits into clicks, leads, and sales more easily and efficiently than someone who just has a mediocre personal blog and doesn’t care about SEO.

As you may have figured out by now, making good money from a blog requires learning some new things, patience, persistence, and yes even a little bit of that dreaded thing called “work”. Anyone who says that making money on the Internet is not a “real job” simply has no clue about what a full-time webmaster’s life is really like.

Mandy asks…

What is the best affiliate program?

I already have one with amazon.com, but are they’re any other good ones?

Yahoo answers:

There are thousands. It depends on your interests and on the content of your web site or sites.

Amazon has a large affiliate program, but it pays very low commissions (something like 4% – 8%). There are affiliate programs that pay much higher commission rates than that.

Here are a couple of web sites that list many affiliate programs with information about each one. Good luck!

Http://www.associateprograms.com/

http://www.affiliateguide.com/

Betty asks…

Rule of thumb Average earnings per impression for website AdSense or affiliate? $.01? .001? per page view?

For a blog or forum, how much can a page owner expect to earn via Google AdSense/Amazon affiliate or other affiliate program for each page view? For average? Semi-targeted ad… like most sites

Is it a penny to page view?

1/10 of penny per page view?

I’m hoping to get 1,000 page views per month and wondering what the Rule of Thumb is… there must be an average that people use?

Yahoo answers:

Yea the 1/10 penny sounds like the right ballpark figure, one example using better paying than adsense I cite as a 1 in a million blogger, websiteoutlook estimate perezhilton, the guy who gossips about celebs and scribbles on their photos, makes $5970 from 1,989,150 page views a day, or 0.3 cents per view.

Richard asks…

Can you use Blog sites for affiliate programs or adsense?

ok i am new to the money online thing. I was just wondering if you can use a blog site, like my blogger.com blog for amazon affiliates and google adsense? and if you can would I actually be able to bring in an income?

Yahoo answers:

Yes, you can. But Adsense do not allow any other text advertising that looks like Adsense to be displayed on the same page. Amazon has a type of text ads like Adsense. Make sure you don’t use them together.

John asks…

Are Affiliate Marketing Programs (like Amazon) worthwhile?

I have a website address that has to do with intelligence and was thinking of setting it up in the future to retail items that are mind building related, but being short on cash to purchase product I was thinking of starting as a guide for items that can be bought through Affilate Marketing Programs.
I am just concerned that people won’t start their repeat searches for new items at my site.

Yahoo answers:

They can be.

Linda asks…

affiliate program?

affiliate program
I want to join an affiliate program.
Can anyone suggest a good site, besides Amazon that promise bucks
if we help them do something.
Where can i learn more about using affiliate program to make money?
Any advice is welcomed! Thx in advance

Yahoo answers:

Http://www.edenfantasys.com/programs/partner_online?pcode=3V1
This site gives you 20% of sales

Ken asks…

How do I report affiliate spammers?

I’ve noticed that in any question that refers to a physical product, there are always affiliate spammers that reply with a generic off-topic answer that doesn’t really answer the question that was asked — they just want to get their link into the answer so people click on them. This just adds “noise” to yahoo answers, and I find it to be annoying.

The most common one appears to be Amazon‘s affiliate program. Although I report these users to Yahoo when they answer one of my questions, is there a way to report them to Amazon? I figure that reporting them to Yahoo does no good — they just open a new account, but making them forfeit their Amazon Affiliate account and open a new one will make it more painful for them.

I didn’t see any obvious affiliate abuse reporting URL on Amazon‘s site.
Here’s some examples, check Cheetuh08 answers on these questions. He doesn’t answer the question that was asked and always gives the exact same “Definatley get the iPad!” answer with his affiliate links.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AgBS9l2iJjOcCaIkXW8nXdDsy6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20101020232012AAylo6p&show=7#profile-info-yJ45NRNMaa

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Aggo7DISy1poCTG4WRSQ3uvsy6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20101020071844AAUDeK0&show=7#profile-info-3EOd7lI6aa

Yahoo answers:

It may not be possible. I have a similar situation; I sell on craft site and I see a number of sellers from there posting spam links to their shop pages here on YA. I report them, they get removed – and come back with new accounts. When I posted on the craft site asking what, if anything, I could do about this, not only was I told there was NOTHING I could do – my posting was removed by THEIR staff as improper. They say that they can only control their OWN site and not what their users do on other sites. Amazon may feel the same way and refuse to sanction their affiliates.

Some possibilities:

https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/gp/associates/contact?ie=UTF8&subject=

That is the ‘contact us’ form for Amazon Affiliates. Maybe you can use it to report?

This is seems to be a reporting page if you think an Associate is not behaving properly. That may be more appropriate to your issue:

https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/gp/associates/help/t15/a7?ie=UTF8&pf_rd_t=501&ref_=amb_link_126313_11&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_p=&pf_rd_s=assoc-center-2&pf_rd_r=&pf_rd_i=assoc_help_t15

Lisa asks…

How to embed an Amazon Affiliate link into a flag image?

I have signed up to amazon affiliate programs for various countries and I am using flag images to link to the product in my visitor’s local amazon store.

I don’t want to include the name of the book in my product link as I’m using a flag image instead.

I would just like to know how to properly embed the affiliate product link into my flag image.

This is my flag image code:

style=”width: 32px; height: 32px;” src=”images/usflag.png”>

This is the affiliate product link: (shortened)

Book Name

I read that modifying amazon affiliate links will stop them from working, so just want to make sure I do it properly so as not to mess it up.

Thanks in advance for any help on this.

Yahoo answers:

Deborah,

Simply put your affiliate URL into the href URL used for the image.

Change your flag image code from this:

To this:

USA

US affiliates can verify that the URL tracks properly by using the Link Checker in your Amazon account. I would image the same functionality exists for UK associates, too. In the US login there’s a tab at the top labeled Links & Banners and in the drop down you select Link Checker. Enter the affiliate URL in the text box and Amazon will tell you whether it tracks properly.

Good luck!

Donald asks…

Amazon Associates?

Have any of you tried this program, if so is it as good as it sounds? I am wanting to use this on my site to make a little extra money. I just want to hear about it from those who have used it or know soneone who has. Here is a link to it.

http://affiliate-program.amazon.com/gp/associates/join

Yahoo answers:

I’ve tried it, but haven’t created any proffit yet. You need to have lots of traffic on your site to eventually get someone to buy the item from amazon. You only get money when someone buys the item and not based on clicks or views. Depending on the target audience of your site, it may or may not be a good thing.

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