Once the initial bump in sales from people spending gift cards ended, sales have been lower than usual. Why? What am I doing wrong? It’s not just you Online sales have gone down for just about everyone. It’s not just you. It probably doesn’t mean you are doing something wrong. Online sales were flat in … Read more
Amazon Prime Day was bigger than ever in 2022. Prime Day was July 12 and 13. Amazon Associates had increased commission rates for even longer. But now that it is over and people start returning things… sometimes you can see your earnings in the negative. It feels like Amazon is charging you to work for … Read more
Help! All of my Amazon Links have turned Spanish! I have tried deleting them and putting them back in and they are still in Spanish! Don’t worry! This is so easy to fix there isn’t even anything to fix. Although you are seeing Spanish. Everyone who uses the English version of Amazon is seeing English. … Read more
What is conversion? Conversion can mean so many things that it can be confusing. The word only means changing from one thing to another. For example, lead into gold, a factory into housing. For online marketing, Conversion means taking the desired action. The action can be whatever you want people to do. It can mean … Read more
It is not fair to advertisers to ask people to click ads. How Does Adsense Work? AdSense works by matching ads to your site based on your content and visitors. The ads are created and paid for by advertisers who want to promote their products. Since these advertisers pay different prices for different ads, the … Read more
When I first started being an Amazon Associate being an Amazon Associate I checked my report all the time. My first really big sale was on a Sunday and I’ve noticed that I have more big sales on Sunday. A lot of the higher dollar amount items that sell don’t ship for a while, but … Read more
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
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 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 can’t 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 stuff. … Read more