I was so impressed when I first came across Asen on the Digital Point forums, that I was inspired to completely redesign my own deals site. He’s created a residual income with his Amazon store, and since we’d all love to have one of those (yeah, the residual income part), I wanted to share with you what he’s doing.
First, I want to point you to an article that he wrote detailing how he’s gaining amazon affiliate success (even how he spurred traffic really quickly). This is the program he used to create the Amazon store (aff link).
These are some of the stats he cites at DP:
Amazon Items: 22, Revenue: $662.14, Referral Fees: $35.31
Third Party Items: 84, Revenue: $3,017.15, Referral Fees: $155.69
Total: 106, Revenue: $3,679.29, Referral Fees: $191.00Visitors: 30,000 Uniques/Month.
PageViews: 120,000/Month.
Now, that wouldn’t be so amazing, but apparently this is not something he really puts time into nor has he been doing it long. This is a residual income for him that took little investment and takes even less now. Impressive…
If you could ask him anything, what would it be? I’ll make sure to relay the questions to him.
Wow! I’ve heard of people doing great at eBay or ClickBank affiliate marketing, but this is my first encounter hearing someone doing Amazon affiliates!
The article link seems to be broken.. I’m really raring to find out how he does that!
I’ll second that. Most people already know about Amazon & would just click to Amazon to look for stuff they need. I’ve read that most people don’t every have anything purchased from their affiliate links.
I’d like to see the link too.
Some people just search for what they need and then buy it. A good SE traffic and a high Page Rank are CRITICAL here. Asen specifically mentions he has the domain up for a while and it is DMOZ listed…
Looks like his sites are down. Here’s the link to the thread on DP: http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=123278
Yan, I wish y’all could see the article. He says in it that while the domain is old, the store is not and that he was getting NO traffic until he purchased a link from a page rank 7 site. He asserts that it’s where all his traffic comes from.
Hopefully the site will come back up soon. It’s a great article.
Hello. I am the owner of the domain. Yes I managed to do about $1500/mo with this technique I got about 2000 uniques/day and a commission was up to $300 on certain days.
I am speaking with a representative right now it seems that the domain resolving got f**’d up.
Asen,that really stinks. We look forward to seeing it back up and running (as I am sure you do too).
I’ve read the article and it is very informative, so once it’s back up I’ll bump this post so the interested peeps can see it.
I have a question for you though. I’m trying to buy a PR 7 link at TLA, and can’t figure out which category to choose one from. Any suggestions for duzins.com?
Wow I’m a dumb*ss!!! My domain has expired LOL. Thank god noone stole it 🙂 Not that my new blog has that much fame.
I will let you in on a little secret the actual site where I was making the money is http://www.haimana.com BUT the traffic totally died after I purchased butload of links on gotlinks.com.
So now I’m buying links for my competition there for the rest of the month.
As far as the text link ads go yes it is a little bit of a pain in the ass to find one. Besides not everyone will approve it as they don’t want to get slashed. What I did was videosift.com but their rank went down to 6.
Also one more thing worth mentioning is receivelinks… http://www.receivelinks.com/?a=407 (aff link I get very few points if you sign up)
It is free and it is THE BEST link exchange program I have seen so far. The UI is not looking slick but the service rocks. If you don’t have available web sites for link exchange you can purchase points.
You know, I accidentally let a domain registration slip last year too. After that I put them on autopay. Much less stressful 😉
Glad it’s all back up. I did find 2 PR 7 sites last night. I’m experimenting with a political site. We’ll see…