How much can you earn from Amazon, if you have 10000

I want to give Amazon button 10,000 impression

[iProgram]

There is an additional place available on my website. Assume I can promote an Amazon button for 10,000 impression each day, how much can I earn from it? (And yes, our visitors like books and e-products)

[sean]

Amazon is steady if unspectacular. You need to start with a load of visitors or have a very efficient method of getting clickthroughs.

Not sure if "button" is the answer. Then again, depends on your goals and your favorite foods. (best guess = lunch money)

[jcoronella]

Not a very nice lunch at that.

There is money in Amazon, but it's not as an added banner to an unrelated or partially related site. To make money with amazon you need to present a targeted product or offer from amazon that the user has specifically come to your site looking for.

[rincey]

I had banner-type links to Amazon for years on high traffic sites and never made much. About 3 month back I switched to direct integration of book from Amazon categories which met the theme of my sites using Web Services.

From that moment on visitors started to browse through "our" bookshop and sales are now about 10 times higher as they were before.

Still no fortune but some additional money to put into Adwords. I still have to figure out how to make money with Amazon using PPC :)

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[chrisgarrett]

I have managed to do amazon PPC and get +ROI, unfortunately I find only the high ticket items are worth it and they tend to follow "fashion trends" - hot items do well then the hoards join the bandwagon and kill it :(

[surfgatinho]

I run a film book site for a publisher and was looking at integrating Amazon web sevices for related books - particularly in recomended reading section.

We get around 700-1000 visitors a day.

Anyone care to hazzard a guess as to a) how much this could potentially bring in and b) is there a right/wrong way to implement it?

Thanks in advance

[hunderdown]

For what it's worth, my experience is that any kind of generic link to Amazon, be it text, button, or banner, gets a very low click-through and a low converstion. Pages with detailed book reviews get much higher click-through rates and conversions--higher by a factor of ten, at least. A simple Amazon button on a page with 10,000 impressions per day won't earn you much, especially if you have other things on the page....

Context: I have a book-related site and have been an Amazon Associate for years. Am currently selling 500 or so items per quarter and earning about $400 (this is very part-time for me: I could do better if I put any real time into it).

[rincey]

Some unbelievable unreliable numbers out of my number cruncher:

Banners and text with untargeted links to Amazon sells 1 product every 100 clicks (for Amazon Germany).

Niche bookstore integrated into a content rich site using AWS, with links to Amazon product pages and "Add to cart" functionality sells 1 product every 14 clicks for amazon.de and 1 product every 27 clicks for amazon.com.

The numbers were very stable during the last months, right now conversion is even a bit better as summer ends and school begins.

My sites are targeted towards selling books, so ratios may be very different in other niches like electronic, kitchen, gardening or whatever Amazon decides to sell next.

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[webmastertexas]

You shouldn't expect to get rich, or anything close, off Amazon. Their affiliate rates favors them simply because they don't really need you, and they can afford it. Then again, since they're so big and everyone knows them, you would probably sell more through them than anyone else. And with Amazon, impressions don't really mean that much, because it's all about targeting each page to display the correct products. I also found that the search box works pretty well.

[tombola]

If you want to earn a substantial amount from Amazon, you must use the Amazon Web Services and build your own bookstore.

My Amazon stats: 1 sale per 12 clicks - 1 sale for 9 visitors.

Keep in mind that visitors browse through my site and that they're redirected to the Amazon site only when they want more information or when they actually buy.