AWS and redirect link

[pickled]

as I can always build traffic

right, and the least expensive, least time consuming way to do that with an AWS site is.....?

[MarkB]

The advertising co-op of course.

[pickled]

perhaps this will persuade you:

Q3 2004 (I had to go back to Q3 to get some relatively stable stats)
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clicks: 7912
total orders:731
conversion rate:9.24%
commish: $2800+

That was generated by 2 main AWS sites and one brand new one that wasn't doing much yet. All that was done to promote these was a little link building, and smart SEO work on the product pages.

[MarkB]

And that is meant to persuade me how? I've had AWS sites with product pages since I started making them (about 8 months ago) - the one without product pages, which I launched in January, is already outperforming them. Go figure!

[pickled]

> persuade me how?

I figured my conversion rate, and number of sales would beat yours and you would envy me

Seriously, take my order number, your conversion rate, and figure out the level of traffic you'd need for your site without the product pages. If you can get that to work out at a less cost than I did (I think I spent about $220 total in promotion), I'll envy you and change my sites asap.

> the one without product pages, which I launched in January
> is already outperforming them

Ahhh...weird stuff like that happens to me all the time in the aff biz. My AWS sites continue to kick the butt of every other site I have (20 or so total), all of which are more original, one of which is 100% original, and one is running itself into the ground on some crappy PHP script some guy in a forums sold me one time

[MarkB]

Horses for courses, I suppose

[pierrebenoit]

Please,

what do you mean by "The advertising co-op of course"

Thanks

[MarkB]

http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/ad-network/

[chromate]

Perhaps an interesting thing to do would be to compromise between the two models...

Keep the product detail pages - but only in a very sparse form, with just enough detail to rank well. ie, no reviews etc just a title, description and pic, with a button / link saying "more details" (NOT a buy button) that goes straight to amazon's product detail page.

That way, Amazon will take care of the conversions and you'll still get traffic from search engines via the datail pages.

I'm not directing this post at anyone in particular, just throwing open an idea I pretty much gave up with AWS ages ago. Though, it does still make me a reasonable amount of money.