Profitable AWS sites...

[James]

I'd like for everyone to list any of their AWS sites that earn over 100 dollars a month. I just want to take a look at them and try to learn why and how they became that profitable; as you can probably assume, I suck at making money ;)

Thanks.

[chromate]

None of my aws sites make over $100 a month. The reason is, I completely neglect them. The best way to turn them into nice earners is to pump them full of PR. Unfortunately, I don't have enough to go around as I send it to my more profitable sites.

Unless you have a decent amount of PR, a very big AWS site or an existing site to tag the AWS onto, I just wouldn't bother with it anymore. Personal opinion though.

[MarkB]

All my AWs sites together made just ~$70 last month. *shrug* It's easy money, just not lots of money :)

[silex]

None of my aws sites make over $100 a month. The reason is, I completely neglect them. The best way to turn them into nice earners is to pump them full of PR. Unfortunately, I don't have enough to go around as I send it to my more profitable sites.

Unless you have a decent amount of PR, a very big AWS site or an existing site to tag the AWS onto, I just wouldn't bother with it anymore. Personal opinion though.

I saw a dating site in your signature.
Could we make links exchange??
My sites in my signature

Silex

[James]

Please hijack my thread rather than using PMs, Silex.

Okay, so general idea is: pump them fulla PR and make lots of them if you plan to earn ANY money?
Any other things I should know?

[chromate]

If the pages are well optimized, then I don't think so :)

[silex]

Please hijack my thread rather than using PMs, Silex.

Okay, so general idea is: pump them fulla PR and make lots of them if you plan to earn ANY money?
Any other things I should know?

I did not understand...
my English not so good

[Nintendo]

Flood your store with back-links. Make a ton of AWS stores.


Any other things I should know?

Yes, you get what you pay for.

Last quarter I made $745.93 just by doing nothing!!

Tips: Use the real thing. Don't use the cheepo stuff out there. :D


no giving Nintendo any money

:D:D Give me $50.00 and Google will see that and give you some extra PR and crawl your site like mad! :D:D:D:D

*Any one who believes that is nuts!*

[James]

Or I could just use a script that's already SE-friendly, or just write my own and not have to give you any money.


Yes, you get what you pay for.

Last quarter I made $745.93 just by doing nothing!!
Could this statement be any more contradictory?

Are there any tips you guys can think of to improve the conversion ratio?

[MarkB]

My conversions went up when I removed product pages, and just had the products in categories linking straight to Amazon (see www.buysport.net for an example). However, I know others have had different results, but this works for me (that sport site was making sales within a week, something my other AWS stores never did - except another one which I use a similar system for:)).

[Nintendo]

The faster you can get visitors to Amazon the better. Though no product pages= Way less store pages of yours that can get indexed in Google.

Don't give Amazon any back-links!

[James]

Don't give Amazon any back-links!
What the fick (not a spelling mistake; it's Deutsch) is that supposed to mean?

[r2d2]

You may as well not pass loads of PR to Amazon. I use the no-follow thing for my 'Buy Now' links, which I believe means you dont pass PR to the linked-to page.

Edit: I thought I did, it appears I use forms for the links, must have been thinking of something else. Anyway, if you were using standard links, you could use no-follow thing to prevent passing PR to Amazon.

[MarkB]

Or toss the link through a redirect script :)

[Nintendo]

What the **** (not a spelling mistake; it's Deutsch) is that supposed to mean?

Learn a little about Search engines, back-links, and PR!! Last thing we want is Amazon at #1 for every thing. I got over 1,000,000 AWS URLs indexed in Google, and not a single URL has links to the index page of Amazon. They invented redirects for a reason, use it!!! Each domain gives Amazon ONE back-link, the URL that re-directs to Amazon.

Total back-links from all sites: Maybe 25 instead of over a million.

[r2d2]

Total back-links from all sites: Maybe 25 instead of over a million.

Could you not make it 0 by not allowing the redirect page to be indexed?

[James]

Learn a little about Search engines, back-links, and PR!! Last thing we want is Amazon at #1 for every thing. I got over 1,000,000 AWS URLs indexed in Google, and not a single URL has links to the index page of Amazon. They invented redirects for a reason, use it!!! Each domain gives Amazon ONE back-link, the URL that re-directs to Amazon.
I probably know more about SEO than you do. :P It's easier to just use ref="nofollow", which is supported by Google (http://www.google.com/googleblog/2005/01/preventing-comment-spam.html), MSN (http://blogs.msdn.com/msnsearch/archive/2005/01/18/nofollow_tags.aspx), and Yahoo! (http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000069.html).

[Nintendo]

Could you not make it 0 by not allowing the redirect page to be indexed?

The links look like
amazon_products_feed.cgi?go=amazon&s=5635fj5883fuie8g&session=5788bgru57j@sessionid=3476fh56hdf&&$$$@@&locale=us

And Google hasn't touched a single one of them, and there are over 150 webmasters that use that kind of link.



Yes, you get what you pay for.

Last quarter I made $745.93 just by doing nothing!!


Could this statement be any more contradictory?

It's called residual income. Try it some time! It works! :D

[LeglessTable]

It's called residual income. Try it some time! It works! :D

Your websites are beautiful works of art.
:)

[moonshield]

yea but his income is going to go down to even less. $750 is not that much to begin with.

[James]

It's called residual income. Try it some time! It works! :D
What the **** are you talking about?

[r2d2]

If you dont have to work on something at all and it still earns money, then you can do other things and still earn money. Its how to get wealthy.

[moonshield]

i think James knows what residual income is but Nintendo was saying something that did not make sense, at least in English.

[James]

Well put.

He said something directly contradictory, when I told him that he was saying something contradictory he said that such contradictions are called residual income. Guess I should try it:

I make money. However, I don't make any money.
Am I rich yet? :P

[r2d2]

Ah ok, yeah I thought so, thought I'd just add that anyway :) . I think he wants you to buy his script thing to get indexed.

Then you can leave it and it becomes residual income :)

You could have my script if you like that does friendly URLs anyway, like this: http://www.discount-plasma-tv.com/plasma-products/B00021Z8VS/Philips-26PF9966-26.html

[James]

No thanks, I've found http://freekrai.net -- That is a nice site you have there, though.