help with amazon
Hi Debbiestrange
there are Hubs, forums and maybe some Q & A's on this topic. Use the search bar to find your answer I've never used the auto select feature on Amazon, Dale. I usually hand pick my products according to the article I am writing. Of course, my hubs are especially about the products being used in the How-to or repair articles. Some pay quite well.
I have used this feature on EBay, however. Sold a $500 item there just last week! I still don't know if I understand how we get paid for EBay sales though. I don't see my share of the sales on my account, but I may not be looking in the right place.
it's a mystery to me too, Dale. My EBay sales list a bunch of items I've apparently sold but i can't see where anything but the EBay clicks--not worth much at all-- have ever been listed in my payment history on the program. If I can't see any and don't find out something pretty soon I'm goins to stop using EBay. Amazon pays well with no waiting for the money until HP takes their cut.
Perhaps I'm missing something here. I hope so!
Perhaps someone in the know will cut us a break, Dale! But anyway, if I don't find out something soon I'm going to take the EBay capsules off of my hubs. Homey don't play that!
Thank you all for the help. I am in the process of doing my first Amazon hub; wish me luck.
Okay, Good Luck!
Great just went through it
Thank you so much for looking at it for me.
Looks good, Debbie. Not sure about it being done right or wrong. I have never done one, lol. I certainly don't see anything weird about it. All is related and a good topic as well.
Nobody seems to have given you much advice about sales hubs in general, Debbie, so here is some from me
Sales hubs need to be targeted. Either choose a detailed group of products (ie best watch for less than $10, or navy blue ladies short-length overcoats) and write hubs around around the products, pointing out the good and the bad points about the product.
If its something you have already bought, you can be completely original, but customer reviews on Amazon are a good place to look for reviews.
You are not trying to make a cold sell, you are wanting to channel someone who is looking to buy that product through to Amazon, so that you get the commission.
Write for people who have their credit card in their hand, wanting to buy.
I think they trust you more if you point out any negative stuff you have read about it as well as the positive.
In fact they probably trust you because you made the effort to put some words on a page (have you looked at sales sites, just rows and rows of product links and no original descriptions).
The most successful marketers drill down through a range of products for just one product (or range of them) that is not necessarily highly searched for, but is individually searched for. If you don't know, guess. Keep an eye on the search terms that bring people to your hub and you will see how detailed you need to be, or perhaps it will give you ideas.
People with a credit card in their hand to buy know what they want. They typed exactly what they were looking for into the search engine.
The trick is to write about that specific product so that they find your hub, read it, like it, click through to Amazon and go shopping.
It doesn't matter if you hardly get any visits to your hub, so long as each visitor you get buys, you know you have done it right:)
I have a hub like that I wrote about 2 weeks ago on another account. Its only had about 30 visits, but its made about 15 sales!
The hub you wrote is fine - good title, nice products, it will likely do well at Christmas, but for all year round selling you really need to target a specific product.
Of course there is no limit to how many products you target as you can write as many hubs as you like!
Good luck!
PS I wish someone had told me all this when I started out. I tried to write sales hubs that were informational, and that doesn't work.
People read, go away, think about it, decide its a good idea, then go shopping through someone else's link because they don't know about cookies and commission and such stuff.
By the way, be careful of your word ratio on your hub, it is at least 50 words per product and I think yours was a bit short. The longer your hub is, the more keywords you can get in, so the more chances of being found by search.Thanks
I've got a similar hub on general kitchen hoods and guest users sent me private mails asking for more info based on specific types with a choice as I've written. The other hub too is similar but has range hoods of various styles. This is more specific and I guess people like choice
I've had a hub where I spoke of just 3 products they were the best but they were all form the same manufacturer. Got plenty of comments that I didn't approve saying that I was biased and was clearly a sales rep for that company - But, I knew those products personally plus the other amazon reviews too showed they were the best. That's the reason I've begun writing with a larger choice and I see to it that there are the best from various brands included
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