Amazon Serving Google Adsense

Do they incite people to click?

[creepychris]

We all know we are not supposed to say much about the adsense ads on our pages. I just wonder about Amazon says:

Customers interested in (whatever you search for) may also be interested in:

This is followed by the Google Ads. Do you think this is inciting people to click? Or is that kind of statement fairgame.

[alika]

Amazon is Amazon. A premium partner. A contextual partner's dream, if only for bragging rights. One cannot assume that the rules for the small fries are the same as the big guys. It ain't fair, yes, but such is life :o(

[creepychris]

Ain't that the truth. But what does it say about amazon affiliates programs? They are giving up their premium ad space to another ad agency. In other words, even they admit, Google Adsense pays much, much better than Amazon does (otherwise they would fill that space with their own products).

[creepychris]

I also see a problem with churning. As an affiliate marketer, I pay XX cents to get someone to go to Amazon with cookie set for my affiliate account. Amazon sends them to another amazon affiliate through Google Adsense which results in the resetting of the cookie. Seems a bit unfair.

[alika]

Like many of us here, Amazon is also working on diversifying its revenue stream, with the addition of Adsense. Never put all eggs in one basket is a cliche that works even for the biggest of us all.

As for your beef with Amazon (e.g. cookies, etc), well, guess this ain't the forum. Sorry mate.

[trader]

I find it amazing amazon has managed to still do so good with their huge affiliate program in view of the fact it seems all I can ever get are unwanted credits toward buying books when I really want CASH.

Most all of my amazon.com links have been removed except a few remaining amazon credit card affiliate links which I never got any revenue from at all (but thought I would maintain a little longer just in case). They are also now being removed.

Has anyone here had success being an affiliate?

[david_uk]

> Has anyone here had success being an affiliate?

I tried it, and it didn't work for my site. I assume it works well for others though. I ditched it completely.

According to recent threads here, adsense is clearly very good for some sites but not others. I guess the same is true of other schemes.

[elguapo]

Has anyone here had success being an affiliate?

Yes, we have success, however, the revenue is too far compared with G. But it is still reasonable revenue earned from books, CDs, DVDs, etc...

[wrgvt]

Define success. I'll make over $10K as an amazon associate this year and my quarterly sales are growing by 40% or better. The best way to make earnings as an associate is to convince your site's visitors to buy the items before they click on the amazon link. That all comes down to content and presentation. If they're ready to buy when they click on the link, then the AdSense ad won't draw them away.

If the visitor is just click happy and hops over to amazon just to browse around, gets intrigued by an ad and goes somewhere else, amazon probably figures they had a low percentage probability of that visitor buying something and should get revenue from him via the AdSense ad.

[hunderdown]

Very good points from wrgvt.

I am earning about the same amounts from Amazon and AdSense, though no where near as much as wrgvt. Also, for my site, at least, I have to put MUCH more work into Amazon to do so well. Since it's a site mostly about books, that's OK, because Amazon complements the content well, and people go there to buy what I've told them about. And if someone isn't interested in the books, then AdSense serves up some relevant ads. A nice match.

[elguapo]

wrgvt - success is a matter of perception, yours and ours.

hunderdown - We do exactly what you say.

Cheers.

[Essex_boy]

AMazon is Amazon Im sure Mr G gives them a free hand to and extent the bragging rights are worth a mint.

One firm I worked for sold their products to teh Royail Mail this produced truly massive orders as a direct result, consequently we used to let them get away with murder.

oh sure they say it wasnt delivered quickly enough, just write that £30K debt off its the Royil mail.... get my drift.

[trader]

How do you guys make money (cash) from Amazon? Every time I get a (rare) sale all they even give me are valueless to me credits to buy books?

Some time ago I had an option of a check but they eliminated that in favor of books only. Is it any wonder almost all my amazon banners are now gone.

[alika]

Maybe because you're making too small of a sale every quarter. We have the option of direct deposit, as I am sure many of the affiliates have. Check the Amazon discussion board. They can help you better there