Getting commission earning from Amazon.com affiliate on your blogger blog....
By coffeebreak
@coffeebreak (17797)
United States
May 29, 2010 12:17pm CST
If you have an Affiliate account with Amazon.com and use their gadets and banners and other selling features on your blogger blog...if a reader clicks through a link on your blog to an Amazon item and make that purchase, you will get "commission earnings" from that purchase.
However, is that where it ends? Or is there a kind of "window" where once the reader clicks through to Amazoncom from a link in your blog, and for the next 24 hours or something, no matter what they buy...you would get a commission seeing as how it was the link in your blog that got the buyer to Amazon in the first place?
5 responses
@Jacobus1919 (1683)
• Philippines
29 May 10
I use this affiliate program from amazon.com but I am still waiting to see results. It is kind of hard because my website's traffic is not really interested in purchasing anything from amazon.com which is kind of sad
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@Jacobus1919 (1683)
• Philippines
30 May 10
That is a good idea too. So, you mean you use text links? or banners? Sadly, too it is hard enough to attract visitors to a site though. Most visitors would just tend to read about the stuff posted like news/announcements then check back later for new stuff.
@coffeebreak (17797)
• United States
10 Jun 10
I use text links and a few banners. I don't want to "junk up" my blog posts, but just show a picture and give the option to obtain what I am talking about.No sales yet although I do similar on Squido and have had alot of sales...stuff I refer to is inexpensive stuff (lense is about decorating cupcakes) But I have gotten a few times this year where someone went to Amazon from my lense and bought something totally different and I got the earnings from that. Just last month someone bought a $349 Nikon camera after getting there via my lense and I got the commission earnings from that.
@bardgirl (362)
• United States
28 Jun 10
Well Amazon is useless for me now since I live in crappy CO which rejected Amazon or something so I can no longer do it. I still use the images of the books but I can't make any money off it. I'm still waiting to see if they'll pay me the little bit I made before this dumb decision came about. I'm not holding my breath.
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@echomonster (2225)
• Greenwood, Mississippi
29 May 10
You'll get commissions on sales for up to 24 hours as long as the user doesn't delete the Amazon affiliate cookie. Affiliates probably hate me because I'm a compulsive cookie clearer -- I even have my browser set to delete cookies every time I close it! 24 hours is actually on the low end of things and it's one of main criticisms of the Amazon affiliate program. For comparison's sake, I'm also a Powell's Books affiliate...their cookie doesn't expire for NINETY DAYS! Of course, Amazon is such a trusted name nowadays that it seems easier to make sales with them than most other programs.
@coffeebreak (17797)
• United States
30 May 10
Thanks for the lowdown! Didn't know that about the cookies! Hope people shop with me don't do that!
Will get back to you on that other thing soon.
