Amazon Clicks Way Up, But No Sales

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   Kenna McHughposted 2 years ago

   Is anyone else experiencing this, where my Amazon clicks have tripled in the last couple of days, but no purchases? What causes this phenomenon?

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      bravewarriorposted 2 years agoin reply to this

      I have one click from Saturday but no earnings yet. Maybe the weekend has something to do with it.

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         Kenna McHughposted 2 years agoin reply to this

         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.

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      Kenna McHughposted 2 years agoin reply to this

      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!

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      Lady Dazyposted 2 years agoin reply to this

      I noticed this too, last month I had over 70 clicks but no sales.

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         Kenna McHughposted 2 years agoin reply to this

         Check your links! Make sure they're still good.

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            Kenna McHughposted 2 years agoin reply to this

            I found another "unavailable" Amazon link.

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   PaulGoodman67posted 2 years ago

   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.

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      Kenna McHughposted 2 years agoin reply to this

      I update perpetually. I rarely click on my Amazon links. It's still a mystery, though.

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         PaulGoodman67posted 2 years agoin reply to this

         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.

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            Kenna McHughposted 2 years agoin reply to this

            Yes. That's true, but the tally was massive.

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   eugbugposted 2 years ago

   Are the products definitely in stock? It's a pity there's no way of checking availability without having to check each link manually.

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      Kenna McHughposted 2 years agoin reply to this

      You would think the products are in stock. Is there a way to tell which article is causing the Amazon clicks?

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         PaulGoodman67posted 2 years agoin reply to this

         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.

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            bravewarriorposted 2 years agoin reply to this

            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.

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               PaulGoodman67posted 2 years agoin reply to this

               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.

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               Kenna McHughposted 2 years agoin reply to this

               That's true. I am curious why I had such a surge of clicks.

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                  Kenna McHughposted 2 years agoin reply to this

                  It turns out nothing was ordered from all those clicks. Interesting.

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                     bravewarriorposted 2 years agoin reply to this

                     Bummer.

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            Kenna McHughposted 2 years agoin reply to this

            I can usually identify the source of the clicks, but sometimes it's an anomaly.

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         eugbugposted 2 years agoin reply to this

         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.

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            Kenna McHughposted 2 years agoin reply to this

            That's good to know. I guess we can't get our hopes up on the reader clicking through Amazon to find the product.

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               Kenna McHughposted 2 years agoin reply to this

               I checked a popular article and discovered two "out of stock" items. Dang! Well, it's a good thing I checked.

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                  eugbugposted 2 years agoin reply to this

                  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.

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                     Kenna McHughposted 2 years agoin reply to this

                     Mine said, "Currently Not Available." It looks like most Ektelon products are not available. So I switched to Wilson.

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   eugbugposted 2 years ago

   I wrote an article last week about using Visualping to monitor Amazon product pages for items going out of stock.

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      Kenna McHughposted 2 years agoin reply to this

      Cool! How's it trending?

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         eugbugposted 2 years agoin reply to this

         Not getting much traffic so far. It hasn't been moved to Turbofuture yet.

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            Kenna McHughposted 2 years agoin reply to this

            Nice article. It'll move over soon!

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      bravewarriorposted 2 years agoin reply to this

      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?

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         eugbugposted 2 years agoin reply to this

         As far as I know, you need to create a job for each Amazon product link.

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            bravewarriorposted 2 years agoin reply to this

            Wow. That could be tedious.

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               eugbugposted 2 years agoin reply to this

               Yep.

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               Kenna McHughposted 2 years agoin reply to this

               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.

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   eugbugposted 2 years ago

   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.

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      Kenna McHughposted 2 years agoin reply to this

      Good idea!

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   eugbugposted 2 years ago

   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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      Kenna McHughposted 2 years agoin reply to this

      Thank you!

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