Well, AWS works

[chromate]

You're probably finding that your visitors know what they want already and maybe already use the product, which would probably quite often be the case with health and beauty products. They know what already works for them and they've just found that through your site they can get it cheaper than they would from where-ever else it is that they used to buy it from. Just a guess.

[eMEraLdwPn]

do you think a music AWS site could work? at first i thought i could use tie-ins from my lyrics site so it might work, but then i realized most people probably just go straight to amazon already when looking to buy music - is that a fair assumption? or is setting one up worth a shot?

[MarkB]

My music AWS site is currently getting (on average) 1 order a day. Although the last week has seen anywhere from 2-5 orders (items) per day.

[Chris]

Just today Google hit kissitmakeitbetter.com up for 3700 pages (so far).

Teoma hit up discountpowertools for 12,600 pages and Google did for nearly 7,000 pages.

Looking good.

[incka]

What about all the web? They are indexing almost as many pages as google, and their rankings, even though they do have spam sites in, seem more fair.

[Kings]

Originally posted by eMEraLdwPn
do you think a music AWS site could work? at first i thought i could use tie-ins from my lyrics site so it might work, but then i realized most people probably just go straight to amazon already when looking to buy music - is that a fair assumption? or is setting one up worth a shot?

I'm running a music lyrics/reviews, but I'm still trying. It's not costing me anything, so I might as well try.

(For example, http://www.chill2music.com/shop/list...p_selling.html)

[Mike]

AWS question coming. Do you just have to include your associates ID in a URL to amazon if you want to be commissioned? Or is there something else to add?

Thanks,
Mike

[Chris]

Your associates ID is all you really need.

[Mike]

Thanks BTW, I don't know if you've read it yet, but I pm'd you last night.

[pas]

Any tips on getting Teoma to visit your pages?

[eMEraLdwPn]

i got the code for the amazon API off a devshed article a while ago, but i've had problems with it since the start... it takes like 15-20 seconds for any page with the API on it to load and i can't seem to figure out why.. i've broken up the code into different parts and can't really figure out what's causing the delay

sample page is here:
http://www.lyricallysquared.com/amaz...n_artist=Finch

and some of the code i used is here (this is what i think is most likely causing the problem anyway)

// include class
include("nusoap.php");

// create a instance of the SOAP client object
// remember that this script is the client,
// accessing the web service provided by Amazon.com
$soapclient = new
soapclient("http://soap.amazon.com/schemas3/AmazonWebServices.wsdl",
true);

// create a proxy so that WSDL methods can be accessed directly
$proxy = $soapclient->getProxy();

// invoke the method 
$result = $proxy->BrowseNodeSearchRequest($params); 

[Chris]

Google has indexed more of my tools site (and kissitmakeitbetter.com). My tools site now gets 3-4k page views a day and yesterday I sold 36 items through AWS. 15 or so of them were less than $5 little bandaid things but still.

[Kings]

Originally posted by Chris
Google has indexed more of my tools site (and kissitmakeitbetter.com). My tools site now gets 3-4k page views a day and yesterday I sold 36 items through AWS. 15 or so of them were less than $5 little bandaid things but still.

Okay, you've got about 19,000 pages in Google, you have got to tell me how you did that.

My site doesn't seem to get spidered fast at all. Every now and then 50 more pages get into Google, but it's not happening as fast as it seems for you. What's the secret?

[chromate]

It's just not the same for all sites. The time varies. I've had some AWS sites listed within a week (completely) and some that still don't have any more than the first page listed. Just keep submitting... it's all you can do.

[Chris]

I have a dedicated server so maybe it responds faster than what you have. SE friendly urls help of course as well.