At what stage do you start to insert your Amazon links?
Is it after you’ve built a certain number of pages or a certain number of visitors? .. what criteria do you use?

I wouldn’t trust any “program” that focuses ONLY on making money with Amazon. Your goal is to build a website that gets lots of free search engine traffic and then test various monetization options which may include the Amazon affiliate program.

I haven’t tested so extensively whether the image as a link would work so well too. The positive side is that you have more chances of getting a click (2 links are better than 1) but you also have 2 affiliate links out instead of one – I think that counts something too in Google’s eyes regardless whether you use nofollow or not.

I certainly agree that the non-Amazon-looking text links you provide look better than the standard salesy links. But if you include both an image and some sub-text (e.g. an image title), I’m wondering whether it makes any difference if you make the image a link as well as the text? I’m not talking about the standard ugly Amazon-box link, just two separate links.

Also, you answered another question I was going to ask – that was whether I should use the ‘preview’ script that Amazon now provides. I’ve started to experiment with it, but it would be good to konw if that works better for you than a preview-less Amazon link.

Cheers

Derek

I haven’t used Amazon Stores much and I don’t see Amazon promote them much so maybe they don’t really work that well.

I think that text links with the Preview box popping up are best. I sometimes use images and add a link below the image as a text link.

It takes longer to set it up compared to just copy-pasting the iframe that Amazon provides, but to me it looks better and different than most affiliates so perhaps people are not affected by ad blindness.

It’s reassuring to hear that someone is making some income from Amazon. My suspicion has long been that it must be possible. I have two questions for you…

1. I haven’t seen anything here about Amazon Stores. Are they to be grouped with Banners, Widgets, and so on, as things that just don’t work?

2. When you say ‘in content’ links work best, are image links preferred over text links? I do book and game reviews, for example, and am wondering whether I should make the image a link or the name a link (or both I guess)?

Great article, thanks!

Derek

Microsoft and Yahoo ads are available only for publishers from USA. ;( Yes, you can use Infolinks with Amazon…

Also, can you have infolinks with amazon?