During late 2009 I published a story showing that a highly anticipated camera was finally available for purchase on Amazon.com. I knew from my own blog that it would be a hit with the readers and that I would get an uptick in orders and increased commissions. What I didn’t expect is that several large blogs would end up linking to my story and in some cases – using my Amazon affiliate link to show their readers where they could find the product!

I’m Rich Biotch!

Now you can imagine what having larger blogs link to a product on Amazon using your affiliate link can do for you, but it’s better to see it for yourself:

The day the article was published I got close to 10 times as many clicks as I normally get and the two days that followed showed larger than average clicks as well. These higher clicks lead to substantially more orders than I normally receive capping out at 81 during that 3 day anomaly.

I later went back and checked the order reports and sure enough that one single blog post brought in more than $2,000 both from the original item from the article and other random items that were purchased during the 24 hour cookie period.

Now you may be thinking to yourself, ‘Snap! I need to go write blog posts about new anticipated products that begin shipping out on Amazon’ and yes this strategy will work well on your own blog, but no you will probably not have the big blogs link to the product using your affiliate link. I have since had other large blogs link to stories like this I’ve done before, but I never again got lucky enough to have them use my affiliate link as they always change it to their own. On this fateful day I’m sure it was just an oversight on the bloggers part as the link on was changed back to their own a few days later (note the drop in clicks).

What you can learn from this:

I suggest that you link to anticipated products during the holidays because your readers are looking for things to buy as presents for friends, family, themselves etc. and if you tell them about a hot new product available for sale you should earn some more extra cash. This is one of the tips I covered in my lessons learned after $40,000+ with Amazon Associates in 2009 but it’s worth repeating – focus on the holidays.

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Before you ask:
1. No I will not share the blog that I did this on or the actual product (obvious reasons)
2. No I will not say which blogs linked to my story (obvious reasons)
The blog I wrote this story on is done so under one of my fake names and hosted on a different server than this blog is.