Is anyone else experiencing this, where my Amazon clicks have tripled in the last couple of days, but no purchases? What causes this phenomenon?
I have one click from Saturday but no earnings yet. Maybe the weekend has something to do with it.
Weekends fluctuate for me. Sometimes, impressions/CPM go out of the roof, and other times dismal. Amazon clicks have always seemed steady and predictable. But not this weekend. It's odd.
High clicks and no sales!? I recommend checking your Amazon links to make sure they are working. Thank you, Eugbug! I did, replaced the broken link, and it has made a big $$ difference in my sales. My plan is to check the rest of my Amazon links. Another thing to do!
I noticed this too, last month I had over 70 clicks but no sales.
Check your links! Make sure they're still good.
I found another "unavailable" Amazon link.
While there's a degree of correlation between clicks and orders, it's pretty erratic.
I think there are two reasons why my clicks can go up without sales:
1. People browsing. One person can potentially click on a multitude of products without buying if they're casually browsing. Somebody might just be killing time at work or while they're on the bus. They could click on 20 different Amazon items and then buy it from Walmart.
2. My clicks go up dramatically when I'm writing, doing maintenance, or editing Amazon hubs. Part of that's because I don't know of any way to check if the links work (the product hasn't run out or been discontinued etc.) without clicking on them.
I update perpetually. I rarely click on my Amazon links. It's still a mystery, though.
The thing is that you can get twenty clicks or more and no sales, in my experience, or a single click and a sale. I don't see it as particularly weird unless it's a long-term trend.
Yes. That's true, but the tally was massive.
Are the products definitely in stock? It's a pity there's no way of checking availability without having to check each link manually.
You would think the products are in stock. Is there a way to tell which article is causing the Amazon clicks?
No. You can only guess where your clicks are happening from which products are bought, which is a far from perfect method.
HP are just giving the same info that Amazon do, albeit in a slightly different format. It's possible that HP don't know either.
I honestly don't think that you can draw too many conclusions from a few quiet days. My Amazon stats seem normal, which essentially means that they are erratic, both in clicks and sales.
Amazon earnings don't post until a product ships. The sale isn't complete until the product leaves the floor. That's probably why clicks aren't showing as sales just yet.
Yeah, it can take many days sometimes and shipping is reduced or stops at weekends.
My best earning day is often Tuesday, because they ship the weekend sales on the Monday, then it's reported on Tuesday.
That's true. I am curious why I had such a surge of clicks.
It turns out nothing was ordered from all those clicks. Interesting.
I can usually identify the source of the clicks, but sometimes it's an anomaly.
I don't think so. I normally check the Amazon product pages every so often on high traffic articles, and frequently discover they're not in stock. There's a couple of websites you can use that will monitor wepages and notify you when certain keywords appear on the pages such as "out of stock", e.g. Visualping.
That's good to know. I guess we can't get our hopes up on the reader clicking through Amazon to find the product.
I checked a popular article and discovered two "out of stock" items. Dang! Well, it's a good thing I checked.
I'm just after opening an account on Visualping and setup a job to notify me when the text "In Stock" is deleted from an Amazon product page (but maybe they replace it with "not in stock"? I think they use "out of stock" though). I set it to do a check every week.
Mine said, "Currently Not Available." It looks like most Ektelon products are not available. So I switched to Wilson.
I wrote an article last week about using Visualping to monitor Amazon product pages for items going out of stock.
Eugene, that's an interesting article and can be a very useful tool. When entering "jobs", do you need to create one for each article's URL that has Amazon links? Or is there a way for Visualping to check globally based on author?
As far as I know, you need to create a job for each Amazon product link.
Yeah, it's time-consuming. Crazy. I wish HP had a system like our "normal" links in the articles — Broken Links notification for Amazon. I am sure HP staff are aware they're losing money too.
Maybe there's some sort of batch technique to enter lots of URLs and check for the same text like "out of stock". I'll ask the Visualping people. They seem to like the fact that I wrote an article about their product and they shared it on Twitter.
Just back from Visualping
"Bulk load and settings features are available in Visualping for Business" and they priovided this link:
https://help.visualping.io/en/articles/ … bs-in-bulk
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