09-21-2006, 07:38 PM
I have made a modest amount of money from Amazon.com and a similar site. The key is making sure your links are specific to your content.
If I'm blogging about a movie that I found helpful, I link to it through my Amazon.com affiliate link.
When I list the books I'm currently reading, I link to them.
I'm reaching to the back of my memory ... over a year ago ... an online acquaintance created a landing page for "red kitchen appliances" and linked to all the red appliances available at amazon.com She had surprisingly good results with Google.
Aha! I found it! She made this page just to see what it would do and behold! she is still on the first page of results through Google.
The Google search string
Her landing page
Notice that her landing page is part of her larger website and not a domain all it's own. The "rules" say that she should have dropped from Google's high page ranks by now, but it hasn't!
If I'm blogging about a movie that I found helpful, I link to it through my Amazon.com affiliate link.
When I list the books I'm currently reading, I link to them.
I'm reaching to the back of my memory ... over a year ago ... an online acquaintance created a landing page for "red kitchen appliances" and linked to all the red appliances available at amazon.com She had surprisingly good results with Google.
Aha! I found it! She made this page just to see what it would do and behold! she is still on the first page of results through Google.
The Google search string
Her landing page
Notice that her landing page is part of her larger website and not a domain all it's own. The "rules" say that she should have dropped from Google's high page ranks by now, but it hasn't!