What is the best way to get the direct product link?
Using the product link builder and snipping the html out of it linked to the linked ad image.
clicking through that took me to amazon with my affiliate ID in the URL.
I took this URL and made it the destination in the adwords ad. (yes it says affiliate)
Will this be interpreted by Amazon as a direct link?
I'm having trouble penetrating Amazon's discussion board login at the moment so I thought I'd try here!
one thing to note before you start doing this is that amazon only provides 1 day cookie and chances are whatever you want to promote within amazon you can find somewhere else which provides longer cookie duration. The advantage of that is if someone wants the item but buys it the second day you still get the commission.
say for example you drive 1000 clicks to amazon.. on the first day 20 people buys.. that's roughly about 2% conversion.... not too bad... succeeding sales you don't get anything...
and then say for example you drive 1000 clicks to another merchant on the first day 20 people buys... same thing not too bad... but if someone within those 1000 clicks goes back on the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th or depending on the cookie duration you still get the commission... a better deal in my opinion... :)
I promoted an item that was sold by a merchant that offers more than 30 day cookie.. I was only testing the program sold some items and stop to prepare for a huge launch... but somebody went back and bought a huge item maybe 5-10 days later resulted to a hefty commission... as compared to my first sale with this customer...
anyways just something to consider... the name amazon though is a well known brand so maybe you wanted to factor that in...
jazzylee77
I know you are but what am I?
Keep in mind you no longer have to identify yourself as an "affiliate" in your ad.
The most concise direct link is what will hopefully remain below as I try hard not to expose a URL that will be edited out.
www.widgets.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/XXXXXXXXX/your associate id
Where XXXXXXXXX is the ASIN # of the book and "your associate id" is well, your associate id. Always use "Show" ¦ "Basic Display" ¦ "Text Only". It makes parsing out the URL a little easier. If your id is in the wrong place, no one is going to hunt it down to grant your commission :)
Putting the cookie issue aside for a moment, you're going to face 2 other obstacles.
1) Amazon themselves or another high bidder is likely to outbid you most of the time so you'll show rarely.
2) See if Amazon themselves is advertising the item in the first SERP position. If so, even those times your ad shows, you stand a good chance of not getting noticed.
You may still sell one now and then for minimal ad cost.
As far as cookies, I've stopped even relying on them except as a treat. With all the spy assasins, spy killers, spy snipers, etc out there who consider even the most benign cookie a spyware target to eradicate, I've found the days of latter day cookie sales are gone. The Amazon 24 hour cookie is nonetheless irksome to many.
I'm surprised you didn't get a good response on the Amazon board quite frankly.
patient2all
As far as cookies, I've stopped even relying on them except as a treat. With all the spy assasins, spy killers, spy snipers, etc out there who consider even the most benign cookie a spyware target to eradicate, I've found the days of latter day cookie sales are gone. The Amazon 24 hour cookie is nonetheless irksome to many.
My feelings were the same until about a week ago. We had a sale come in from a link that was removed 20 days earlier. Made a commission of over $100 on that sale. It's good to know that everyone doesn't have all the software you mentioned. BTW, I do. At least from a sales stand point it was good for us. :)
I'm surprised you didn't get a good response on the Amazon board quite frankly.patient2all
It's not that they didn't respond, but I was unable to register that night. The form was messed up on my browser;name box was missing and it wouldn't accept me without it. Maybe next time...
