Well, AWS works

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Originally posted by Chris
1. Apparently power tools are no longer a new category and they're still capped. So those $400 tools I'm selling only get me $10 in commission :(

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How's it going? Sold many?

Its going pretty good. $10 a sale is still nice (but not as nice as I thought it would be).

So you reccomend instead of the popup box, a direct link to amazon on product pages Chris?

Thanks,
Mike

Yes. for a couple reasons.

1. It appears to convert better.

2. 1 makes sense because if you think about it not everyone is smart enough to realize that that popup is really amazon, or trusting enough to believe that that popup is really amazon.

3. With the normal link there is a higher chance for them to buy more than just the one item. They might make an impulse buy that you'd get credit for.

What about just putting the item right into their Amazon cart? That's what I'm doing. Er, that's what I would do if I could get some traffic!! (Looks like Google is starting to add my pages though, so hopefully soon...)

I also provide a direct text link, though it's not as obvious.

When I tried having items added to the shopping cart it didn't seem to do too well. I think this is because it's not too obvious what's happening. The button says "buy from amazon". When a user clicks it, they land on an amazon page saying "Customers who shopped for blah also shopped for..." (or something similar). It's not too apparent that the item's actually been added to their cart ready for them to purchase.

With the text link / quick buy, the user is actually invited to add the item to their cart and think that's more "progressive". It makes the buying process a bit more intuitive with respect to "what's going to happen next".

Chris has only tested the results on one site though, auidence matters and different auidences will do different things. I will not be convinced one works better than another until I see a survey of a large variety of sites.

Chromate - Carbohydrate Counter might fail as people realise that the Atkins diet works from protein reducing hunger rather than low-carbohydrare.

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Originally posted by chromate
Dan, oops!!! Looks like we've done the same site: http://www.camcorder-reviews.net/ When did yours go live?

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Too funny. Went live yesterday. Good thing our keywords are sliiightly different - "review" vs. "reviews" :p

Remember Google stems now, your keywords aren't that different.

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Originally posted by incka
Yes, BobbyB has made one.

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I should clear up the signature, BobbyB's is a website/future print publication I help out on; my name's Dan :)

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Originally posted by Chris
Remember Google stems now, your keywords aren't that different.

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Super. Well this was bound to happen someday.... :eek:

Well, I don't think either of us are going to get too near the top with our "front page" keywords anyway. I might change my site name. Seems silly us both having the same name.

Chris how long did it take you to get your site spidered? I submitted just over a week ago and none of the pages are there when I do 'allinurl: mp3playerreviews.net'.

Dan, have you made the article on AWS yet?

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Originally posted by Mike
Chris how long did it take you to get your site spidered? I submitted just over a week ago and none of the pages are there when I do 'allinurl: mp3playerreviews.net'.

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Has the GoogleBot been through your site? It takes a little while after that to actually get in the index. If you haven't seen GoogleBot yet, keep submitting pages from your site. I do it every other day on new sites and normally get deep crawled pretty fast.