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Amazon Stores Update

by Paul on February 23rd, 2005

Back in January I wrote about my failure to check on some of my Amazon stores and because of this I lost a significant amount of money because they were no longer working. In all honesty I figured I was toast because Google probably got tired (we like to talk about Google like it’s a person) and decided to no longer visit the sites.

But instead of sitting back, I took the proactive approach to see what I could salvage. I moved most of the sites to their own domains and placed a redirect in the .htaccess file on the 9rules domain. This resulted in a little bit of money again, but nothing to jump up and down about.

Last week I decided to link the stores on some of my major sites and Mr. Google has decided to spider the hell out of the sites this week. Yesterday I almost reached a triple digit revenue day. I am still not getting the pageviews and clicks that I was last year, but looking at the trend things are going back up.

This would not be possible though if I did not put focus on my content sites. Many people have this wild idea that they can put up an Amazon store and watch the cash come in. Sure a couple bucks a quarter might come in, but that really isn’t worth the time it takes to implement a store.

Create a quality content site and connect a store with it and this is where you will see success. It won’t be great, but it will be something. I still believe the best way is by writing product reviews yourself and linking to Amazon. Conversion rate is much better.

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