Anyone experiencing more Amazon sales?

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   robhamptonposted 5 years ago

   This year my traffic is lower than last, but Amazon sales are through the roof, making up for and then some for lack of traffic. Averaging near $20/day the last few weeks in Amazon earnings alone. There has been a huge uptick with Amazon
   

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      psycheskinnerposted 5 years agoin reply to this

      Have a look at what the sales were for.  I saw a jump when a specific hub got popular

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         robhamptonposted 5 years agoin reply to this

         Same stuff that was selling last year, just a whole lot more of it. I think it's just that year after year, more people are buying online.

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      Patrick Patrickposted 5 years agoin reply to this

      I got my first Amazon sale last month. However, it did not reflect on my total monthly earnings for that month. What could be the issue?

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   eugbugposted 5 years ago

   No, they seem to be somewhat lower than last year, but traffic to DenGarden for all my articles has been lower this year.

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      robhamptonposted 5 years agoin reply to this

      Me too eubug. Traffic way down on Dengarden compared to last year. (All my articles except one are on Dengarden)

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      OldRosesposted 5 years agoin reply to this

      Respectfully disagreeing.  Traffic on my Dengarden hubs is waaaaay up compared to last year.  200% - 300%.  Maybe because I write about gardening which is exploding in popularity.

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   SuperBrainwaveposted 5 years ago

   I wish my amazon income was better. Monthly figures went down around fifty percent last year and another fifty percent this year. The HP Ads income has picked up, but I'd still like an Amazon recovery. I've done my best to follow HP advice and look at what gets highlighted on the niche sites, but I've not got any great ideas over what to do. Most of my Amazon hubs have only one, or maybe two links nowadays, so it's hard to cut those back...

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      DrMark1961posted 5 years agoin reply to this

      Paul, I am not sure if you are talking about your Amazon sales on this account or one of the others, but I found one article on this account that has an Amazon ad and it is a capsule (for a subwoofer).
      My Amazon sales went way up last year when I deleted all of my capsules and started using Amazon links instead. Same products, but as I understand it the capsule is blocked with an adblocker but the link is not.
      I am not positive if it is the adblocker software or if the readers feel the link is less intrusive and go ahead and buy there more often.

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         PaulGoodman67posted 5 years agoin reply to this

         Thanks, I'll try that. I generally removed the capsules for my best-sellers and used links, but I will try doing it for all of them. I am planning to go through them and update them in the near future, so I will make sure capsules are all gone.
         
         I have a few Amazon-orientated articles scattered around my HP accounts, and some that I moved to Blogger. They still earn, but it's like 25% of what they brought in at their peak. I used to have a lot more in the old days, but I generally kept the better ones for HP. They just don't get the views that they used to.

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         PaulGoodman67posted 5 years agoin reply to this

         I do appreciate the feedback, but I'm somewhat downcast by the Amazon situation. I've started going through my Amazon articles, but generally as I thought, either I've replaced capsules with text links, or HP has clipped them, certainly on the higher view hubs. It won't do any harm revamping but I am not expecting any great turnaround
         
         My main problem is that Amazon hubs that used to get 150-200 views/day now get 40-50 or much less. To get the clicks the hubs need to be either number one or at least in the top three in the Google rankings.
         
         The other problem is that Amazon have drastically cut back the earning rates over the past few years. Not really much that I or HP can do about that, but it's frustrating.
         
         This is why I've generally switched to pursuing the Hub Ads and limit my time with the Amazon articles. I've had difficult times before with the Amazons, but not sure how to recover from this one. I'm still trying though...

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   Kenna McHughposted 5 years ago

   Patrick, There is a 2-month delay with Amazon payouts because they need to confirm the buyer is not returning the item purchased.
   
   Yes. My Amazon sales are the highest ever. I am doing the Happy Dance!

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      Patrick Patrickposted 5 years agoin reply to this

      Thank you so much for letting me know, Kenna. I had no idea Glad I asked.

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   Kenna McHughposted 5 years ago

   That is great!

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