First Amazon Affiliate Sale Made

Posted on July 7th, 2010 in Personal Insights

I got way to excited the other day about selling my very first product as an Amazon affiliate, somebody purchased the Sherlock Holmes DVD from one of my affiliate links and I earned a whopping .48 cents commission on the $12 DVD. This speaks volumes because out of my 3500+ blog posts, I maybe have an Amazon affiliate badge posted in 20 posts, the funny thing is I don’t remember ever having a link to affiliate sell Sherlock Holmes DVD (I didn’t even see the movie yet).

I see that this particular affiliate has 45 clicks with a 2.22% CTR rate according to Amazon Affiliate. What I can’t find is which post the affiliate link or image is hosted on so that I can find out where its coming from and on which of my three blogs. I should have been smart enough to use a separate Amazon affiliate channel for each of my blogs, but forget to switch channels and have my same channel with a few ads on all three of my blogs.

Does any of my readers know how to find out what was the originating source of clicks for Amazon Affiliate sale? Amazon has some analytics, but I just can’t figure out the source and a Google query left me empty.

Meanwhile, I am thinking about trying to use Amazon Affiliate sales more cleverly in some of my more popular posts that show up on Google Searches to test and see if any CTR ratio pans out.

-Justin Germino

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Klaus @ TechPatio

Congratulations on your first Amazon affiliate sale, feels good, doesn't it? :)

I've also experienced "selling" products I never linked to. I think it's because if somebody visits Amazon through your link, a tracking cookie is placed, so you still get %'s of whatever they might purchase. I've heard that the tracking cookie doesn't lanst long though, maybe even as little as 12 hours (but I don't know for sure).

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Josiah @ Halo Reach

Yea, if a person clicks through, anything they buy will be refferred by you. It's an awesome thing. Perhaps the best part is if you have a website that soley promotes amazon products then chances are that site ranks for "buying" keywords. People clickthrough and buy other things too, which makes you more money :)

dragonblogger

That does make it a good deal to run an Amazon store or affiliate section for ones site, maybe worth an idea.

Congratulations on your first Amazon affiliate sale, feels good, doesn't it? :)
I've also experienced "selling" products I never linked to. I think it's because if somebody visits Amazon through your link, a tracking cookie is placed, so you still get %'s of whatever they might purchase. I've heard that the tracking cookie doesn't lanst long though, maybe even as little as 12 hours (but I don't know for sure).

That makes a lot of sense about the tracking cookie, I hadn't thought about that. Thank you.