Amazon Prime Day 2021 was Monday, June 21 to Tuesday, June 22. My experience with Prime Day is mixed. Around the time they announce Prime Day my site traffic goes up a little, but Amazon sales go down. I am assuming people are putting things in their cart to see if they go down on … Read more
Help! I have lost control of my website. How do I get the photos to make the website again? First: Don’t steal. These are not instructions on how to steal someone else’s photos.* How to Save a Few Photos If there are just a few photos, hover the mouse over each one. Click the right … Read more
Every once in a while you should revisit posts or pages that include Amazon affiliate links. Sometimes the product you link to has moved or been removed from the site. If you haven’t already, add SiteStripe. It lets you create links as soon as you find a product you like. From the product page you … Read more
This post is to help you tell us what you want your new website to look like. There are a lot of different layouts available. Most sites use a mixture of these ideas. Single Column This is a single column layout from Storefront by WooCommerce. It looks like what you see on your phone, but … Read more
Whether you are designing your own website or someone is doing it for you, it is really helpful to know the words for the different parts of a webpage. If you are running into difficulties, you can Google for help if you know the word for what you are talking about. It is a lot … Read more
Be careful about photos. Don’t just take photos off other sites and use them. Do not use photos from “free” photo sites. Sometimes they are actually copyrighted and you can get hit with a lawsuit. This really happens. I cannot stress enough to be careful about photos. Take photos yourself. You don’t have to have … Read more
This is the third time AdSense put an ad serving limit on my sites and this one really hurt. The ads showed for a few minutes on March 15. On March 26 ads showed for a couple of hours. When the ads stopped showing again it was really disheartening. I started looking around again to … Read more
Amazon caches the ads on your site to make them display faster when someone loads a page. When you make changes to the page, you may not really see the changes correctly right away. The changes are made. Anyone coming to the page will see the changes. But you are seeing some kinda confusing cached … Read more
If I understand the question, you want to know how long it takes to make money from Amazon Associates ads. How long does it take from when someone clicks an Amazon ad on my site until I get paid if they buy something? When someone clicks your link, puts the item in their shopping cart … Read more
I added up all my Amazon Associates sales and it comes to a lot more than what it is showing as Revenue. What is going on? Why is the Revenue I am getting Commissions on always less than my Ordered Items? First, you don’t have to add up your sales. Just click Group By: and … Read more