RSK3000

I thought I'd experiment with Amazon aStore minisites as an alternative to domain parking.

Anyone tried this and if so was it successful?

I have set up a few experimental sites to see what sort of results I will get:-

Melodicas.co.uk
CountryRock.co.uk
PortableFans.co.uk

Set up is easy. The problem is that people have to buy something before you earn anything .

I'll report back once I have some results good or bad to report.

Anyone else tried this?

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GreyWing

Parking is finished anyway mate, pays sode all now. Nothing to lose if it's not against therms terms and conditions, crack on.

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RSK3000

Never thought of that................I have had a look at their Terms and found nothing preventing use of the aStore in that way.

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woopwoop

I think that it's good what you're doing and really just depends on traffic. Get good traffic to the domain and you'll make a few sales.

I would try and add more content to the sites you listed above otherwise I think it'll be difficult to get ranked and to get other people linking to you.

My best example is Morecambe.

You can see that there's a banner at the top. Click it and you go through to my aStore which is just like yours. It's a specific group of books which are selling to users who arrive at the site looking for stuff to do with Morecambe.

On the other end of the spectrum, look at student books. Not an aStore, but it is an amazon affiliate site. Full search functionality with results showing up within the site. Also a few other features and bits of student related content.

Good luck.

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accelerator

I have an aStore experiment running at my Sat Nav site and I've made some sales.

The main challenge you are going to have is getting search engine placement. I don't use the aStore on my home page so that I can do on-page optimisation on my home page.

If you leave your sites as is, you will need to do off-page optimisation, i.e. lots of inbound links, to get placement.

Rgds

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bensd

I have an aStore site on Simpsons DVDs.

Domain was reg'd, site put up and indexed in January and so far i have made £2.02. Not a great deal but if it carries on this way it will pay for the reg, hosting and have a couple of quid left over.

Accelerator is right though, you need to get traffic to the site to make any money. Simpsons DVDs is on the first page of google.co.uk for the term "Simpsons DVDs".

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RSK3000

I thought some people might appreciate some quick feed back on the progress of this experiment.

I started this about 8 - 10 weeks or so ago.

The three sites I developed have few backlinks and no content. There might be some type in traffic. Over the last 8 - 10 weeks only £0.80 was earned in total and that was from one sale.

Does that mean that Amazon aStores are a viable alternative to parking. I think they might be and there is always the possibility of relatively high earnings because Amazon uses tracking cookies last for 7 days (?) which means that you earn revenue on anything bought during the week after the visit.

It is also worth bearing in mind that the last 8 - 10 weeks were not the best trading conditions. Additionally, 10 weeks is perhaps too short a period to draw any final conclusions.

Overall I'm optimistic but only time will tell.

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devolution

Are you using the ASM2 script or another one?

woopwoop

Not exactly sure what asm2 is. Mine's a custom script which uses php and xml. Check out the amazon developer pages for details and examples of other sites. They've got some useful forums and a lot of developer tools.

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mistrymit

i've used the amazon ghostscriptor php script to develop my amazon site at

www.boxedgifts.co.uk

at first was using astore and at that point wanted to sell to domain name but came across this script after searching through many other scripts

1 year on now, has a pagerank 2 and have made many sales since, no ppc or seo or link building done.

sales still popping through every now and then. but need to more work on developing the site as not done so in many months, but thought i'd share my amazon exp

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