Glad you like the site! I plan on putting much more detailed info on here soon, just busy with all my Amazon niche sites for Christmas right now.

Talk soon!
Tracey

I came across your site today after reading something you wrote so then I copied your Url and entered it bringing me to this site. OMG thank you so much. I had no real idea where to start till I read your information your sharing with us all. I reread your information once again and began taking note from it all. ( lots of note) My next step is to take action, I want to put up a site and see what I can do with it. I would love for you to keep in contact if possible with me. As a newbee I will need all the help I can get. Once again thank you for this wonderful site. Yes I bookmarked it. Before I forget congrats on the little one. New site for ya.. ” WhatEveryLittleOneNeeds. just kidding of course hope your smiling now.

Great advice on how to do the Amazon sites. I really like how you have described how you set it all up.

The only amazon links I have used at this stage are to books on my blog. I will have to look more into it.

Have you found your mini sites to be a nice little earn?

Currently I am concentrating on John’s masterclass program, but his program finishes in a few weeks and I know I don’t want to rely on my book making me money.

I hope everything is going well.

Kind Regards

Jacinta
(Another fellow Aussie!)

Thanks so much for your kind words. I’m a big Griz fan so it meant a lot when he gave me a link.

Now to your questions.

I use both hubpages and self hosted sites. Hubpages does only allow 2 links, but you can have as many as you like with your own sites.

It depends on the the length of the page (how much text I’ve written) as to how many aff links I put on my own sites. It’s usually around two per page, but sometimes I’ll put three if the page is long.

I prefer using my own sites, but often I’ll use hubpages to test a few products. Whichever one seems to do the best – I’ll then purchase a domain and create a site around it.

I don’t do any testing. Yeah I probably should, but at the moment I’m very time poor and would rather spend my time getting more sites up then tweaking my current ones.

I do go back to some of my old sites and add more text or keywords if I find I’m getting traffic for certain terms though.

Hope that helps
Tracey

Of all of the link love spread by Griz in his last post, your blog is the my new gem. I was focusing on an AdSense strategy until you showed me that Amazon was a viable alternative. But a couple of questions:

1. I notice your screenshot shows 3 affiliate links, but I seem to remember reading an earlier post where you said that Hubpages allows a maximum of 2. Is this why you’re using a self-hosted site for that promotion instead of Hubpages? How do you decide between whether to run a campaign on Hubpages or on your own?

2. Hubpages lets you install Google Analytics, but I can’t tell if they’ll let you install Google Website Optimizer to test different copy and layout strategies. Not being able to split test different ideas might tip the balance in self-hosting’s favor. Do you do any testing besides looking at changes?

Thanks for all of your great info!

Ok I’ll go over a linkwheel in more detail next post (probably Monday).

Tracey

Nope I don’t use Adwords. They all get organic search engine traffic.

Hi 3bagsfull,

I would say that the ones that rank well usually have about 5 or 6 supporting sites. That could be hubs, lens, blogs and so forth all pointing a link to them. Using a linkwheel seems to work well for these amazon sites too.

Hi Des,

Thanks again. Hey how are you going with your ebook?

Hi Dave,

Hmm. I’m with 1&1, but they aren’t that newbie friendly. I think if I had to start from scratch I’d probably go with hostgator perhaps.

Hi Sandra,

Thanks for your post.

Hi Des Cash,

Thanks for visiting. I don’t ping this blog or submit it to social bookmarking sites. The majority of traffic I get is from current subscribers, articles I’ve written and friends recommending me.

Hi Eric,

I haven’t used subdomains myself, but I could see how it could work (and it would be cheaper than buying all those domains – LOL)

I used to use UAW after recommendations from Court but found it was too expensive compared to the results I got (if a product doesn’t pay for itself within 2 months I’m outta there). So don’t use it anymore.

Most of my backlinks are either from articles or from support sites I’ve built. Luckily I’ve found that you don’t need too many backlinks to get a product focused site to rank well.

Hope that helps
Tracey