Comments on: Amazon Kills Affiliate Links Via Paid Search http://www.miconian.com/2009/04/06/amazon-kills-affiliate-links-via-paid-search/ Form and function fistfight in heaven. Sun, 15 Jan 2012 22:33:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Friday Linkdump at aleatory http://www.miconian.com/2009/04/06/amazon-kills-affiliate-links-via-paid-search/comment-page-1/#comment-1680 Friday Linkdump at aleatory Fri, 10 Jul 2009 08:07:14 +0000 http://www.miconian.com/?p=438#comment-1680 [...] i get the whole affiliate linkers / adwords [...] [...] i get the whole affiliate linkers / adwords [...]

]]> By: ruamtalay http://www.miconian.com/2009/04/06/amazon-kills-affiliate-links-via-paid-search/comment-page-1/#comment-137 ruamtalay Wed, 08 Apr 2009 10:55:36 +0000 http://www.miconian.com/?p=438#comment-137 amazon will make more profit after cut out the PPC competitor. amazon will make more profit after cut out the PPC competitor.

]]> By: Kegnum http://www.miconian.com/2009/04/06/amazon-kills-affiliate-links-via-paid-search/comment-page-1/#comment-135 Kegnum Mon, 06 Apr 2009 21:18:32 +0000 http://www.miconian.com/?p=438#comment-135 There are a ton of great sites you can make some extra money with... I have a few sites that I use every day and it really adds up.. You won't get rich but you could make a nice chunk of cash at the end of each week.. There are too many to list here but check out this site.. <a href="http://bestgptmoney.blogspot.com" rel="nofollow">http://bestgptmoney.blogspot.com</a>. They have some sites listed there with descriptions telling you what you could expect from them.. Well hope this helped ... good luck :) There are a ton of great sites you can make some extra money with… I have a few sites that I use every day and it really adds up.. You won't get rich but you could make a nice chunk of cash at the end of each week.. There are too many to list here but check out this site.. http://bestgptmoney.blogspot.com. They have some sites listed there with descriptions telling you what you could expect from them.. Well hope this helped … good luck :)

]]> By: PuReWebDev http://www.miconian.com/2009/04/06/amazon-kills-affiliate-links-via-paid-search/comment-page-1/#comment-134 PuReWebDev Mon, 06 Apr 2009 20:04:07 +0000 http://www.miconian.com/?p=438#comment-134 I'm glad that Amazon made this decision. First, because it clears out all of the extra junk we see in the search results. Also because it was unnecessary for it to compete with it's own affiliate program. This makes good business sense on it's part. It's unfortunate that some affiliate marketers are going to be taken out of the game, but if they didn't have a website that they could send the ppc traffic to in the first place, then they never really had anything to begin with and were lucky to be milking the cow. in all fairness, I don't see anything wrong with a little ppc arbitrage and using smarts to generate $, however I look at affiliate retailing a little bit differently and think that you can milk the cow even more without paying for traffic in the first place and still generating sales with natural and social network marketing.<br><br>For the Amazon Associates that are probably going to need a website to start making some sales and commissions again, should look at setting up a website with <a href="http://EcommerceForEveryone.com" rel="nofollow">EcommerceForEveryone.com</a> , this way they can still run their ppc campaigns, to static landing pages and they can develop natural search traffic at the same time. I'm glad that Amazon made this decision. First, because it clears out all of the extra junk we see in the search results. Also because it was unnecessary for it to compete with it's own affiliate program. This makes good business sense on it's part. It's unfortunate that some affiliate marketers are going to be taken out of the game, but if they didn't have a website that they could send the ppc traffic to in the first place, then they never really had anything to begin with and were lucky to be milking the cow. in all fairness, I don't see anything wrong with a little ppc arbitrage and using smarts to generate $, however I look at affiliate retailing a little bit differently and think that you can milk the cow even more without paying for traffic in the first place and still generating sales with natural and social network marketing.

For the Amazon Associates that are probably going to need a website to start making some sales and commissions again, should look at setting up a website with EcommerceForEveryone.com , this way they can still run their ppc campaigns, to static landing pages and they can develop natural search traffic at the same time.

]]> By: mikestig http://www.miconian.com/2009/04/06/amazon-kills-affiliate-links-via-paid-search/comment-page-1/#comment-90 mikestig Mon, 06 Apr 2009 13:32:14 +0000 http://www.miconian.com/?p=438#comment-90 Michael -- great post. <br>Although there were probably many legit paid affiliate search links, the vast majority were probably akin to spamming as you point out, people trying to game the system. My hope is that now that Amazon is not going to pay for these types of links, the publishers that send "organic" leads their way will see some kind of gain (maybe larger payouts for certain sales volume) because they are no longer 'diluted' by paid links. But probably Amazon will end up keeping the cash instead...we'll see. Michael — great post.
Although there were probably many legit paid affiliate search links, the vast majority were probably akin to spamming as you point out, people trying to game the system. My hope is that now that Amazon is not going to pay for these types of links, the publishers that send “organic” leads their way will see some kind of gain (maybe larger payouts for certain sales volume) because they are no longer 'diluted' by paid links. But probably Amazon will end up keeping the cash instead…we'll see.

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