Adsense + Amazon Associates

Adsense + Amazon Associates allowed?

[casperl]

Hello,

Can both Adsense and Amazon Associates links be in the same page?

I am planning to add "Individual Item Link" (http://www.amazon.com/gp/browse.html/ref=sc_fe_c_2_3435371_1/002-4746905-6198400?%5Fencoding=UTF8&node=12920511&no=3435371&me=A36L942TSJ2AJA) to the left menu an put adsense ads inside the pages. Is this allowed?

Thanks forthe replies.

[birder]

Yes, it is allowed. I do it though I find it all but impossible to make any money from Amazon!

[casperl]

Hi Birder,

Thanks for the reply. Could you add more comments about why do you think Amazon does not make any money? Dont they pay %10 commission or nobody buys the book you listed?

I asked this since if it is not very valuable i wont spend time to add this to my site.

In fact what i have in my mind is to list some books with my comments and attach a "Buy from Amazon" button to my comments! So i am planning to get money from that link. Is this possible with Amazon Associates? Do they allow such custom links instead of their ready-made link units?

Thanks again.

[Frequent]

casperel,

You can make money from Amazon. It's all in the way you integrate the item into your site.

That said, don't expect to make much unless you have massive traffic and are in a buyers niche.

Freq---

[hunderdown]

casperl, FYI: the 10% commission you can make from Amazon is an "up to" 10% commission. You can only earn that much if you are in the top, 7.5% "tier," meaning you sell a few thousand items per quarter (I forget the exact number). AND if you get the 2.5% direct link bonus.

More realistically, I do modestly well with Amazon. I'm making 6% on most items, and 8.5% on the ones sold as direct links, which are maybe a quarter of the total.

AdSense on "product" pages can do very well, as you may pick up from reading the AdSense documentation, where they say somewhere that product review pages are likely to do well with AdSense. In my exerience, that's true.

I have several detailed individual book reviews on books related to my site's subject. These pages do well in terms of earning Amazon commissions AND earning AdSense income. You can check out my site in my profile if you want to see examples.

[ashii]

I tried amazon for Months not a single book sold from my account in 6 months!

[hunderdown]

ashii, what you do mean by "tried Amazon"? If you just put up banner ads, text links without additional informatin, or used the Amazon feed to create a store, I'm not surprised to hear that.

Amazon works best if you create unique content (like AdSense, actually) about specific products that interest targeted traffic (also like AdSense...). That's why they CAN work well together.

[Atomic]

If you slip in a suggested book as an additional resourse at the end of an article you will sell a few. And don't forget to tell family and friends that if they are going to shop Amazon you would really appreciate it if they clicked through your link.

[annej]

I agree with atomic. Put related books with picture of the cover on each page. I usually do them in the left column below my adsense tower ad. It's more work but it sells books much better that just a search or a separate book page. It's still about a quarter of what adsense makes for me but I feel it actually ads to my content letting people know about books they might be interested in.

[phazex]

Yes, it is allowed. I do it though I find it all but impossible to make any money from Amazon!

I couldn't agree anymore. I use adsense along with amazon on my "data-feed" sites. lol. Out of the roughly 4500-6000$ i make every quarter, aws makes up only 33% of my income. Note: Thats income from 80 sites! lol.

[edd1]

I have both. Don't make a lot from amazon but the whole book review feature gives the site a lot of credibility.

[incrediBILL]

the whole book review feature gives the site a lot of credibility.

It's also duplicate content a bazillion other people have on their web site.

I do some Amazon but I still link the old fashioned way and do some things so my content, other than the Amazon book, isn't cloned content.

Some people make a lot of money with Amazon, I could probably make more holding up Bumvertising signs on a street corner.

[semiprofessional]

I have a page of book reviews in the topic area of my website. The book sales are low, but interestingly, people on-click to other books and stuff at amazon and I get an occasional few cents from a CD sale or something else.

My reviews all say that the books are junkish, so I guess I only have myself to blame :P

[danny]

I have Amazon links as well as AdSense on my reviews - I also use an iframe with Amazon links as an alternate ad for AdSense.

I make about twice as much from Amazon as I do from AdSense.