How to make an extra $300 without any extra traffic

I thought i would share some great tips as to how i have managed to increase my income by $300 by just adding some links to my sites. As ive said before i like to use amazon as another income stream but my first full month using amazon only started on december 1st 2010. Ive have tested a few sites before by placing amazon widgets and links but i felt that it was having such a big negative effect on adsense that it wasnt worth doing it so i just kept using just adsense untill i found a different solution

Below is a screen shot of my earnings for the month just from amazon. I had 141 people order an item but only 123 items have been shipped so by the time those other items get shipped my total will be close to $300 but at the moment as you can see its $235.62

Not bad for my first month using amazon!

Now the way in which i did this was very cool because i added my amazon affiliate links to my sites  in such a way that it did not effect my adsense earnings hardly at all

This is how i did it:

First thing is i didnt use any widgets like pictures or any of those fancy big rectangle widgets that like the spin and revolve and stuff. All i did was use all text links but ONLY in certain places….. this is crucial.

When a visitor comes to your site and you monetize it with adsense you of course will want someone to click in order for you to earn but as we know not everyone does so the people that do stay on your site some will scroll down your site to see what else there is, so what i do is i hyper link the keyword for the page about half way down in the content pointing to amazon for the relevant item which the page is about. I then also have a small sentance at the bottom of my site saying something like “click here for the best deals on xyz all at great prices” and also link that to amazon, again to the a relevant item in amazon which my page was about.

I add 2 links like this ONLY for my homepage one in the middle of the content and one right at the bottom, DONT put a hyper link too far up in your content otherwise it will distract your traffic from clicking your adsense ads. You only want the people clicking your amazon links that have decided not to click your adsense ads that way your giving your traffic an alternative and making you potentially much more money.

All my internal pages are set up a little different but i still DONT add any hyper links to amazon to high up in the content for the same reason as mentioned above. I only usually put one hyper link in for amazon in my internal pages and also hyper link another keyword or sometimes two to other internal pages but this is just for my internal linking. I dont have anything at the bottom though saying “click here for the best deals etc” like i do on my home page.

Doing things this way i my adsense still perfroms very well along with making a good extra amount with amazon with no extra traffic. It shows quite clearly that ive been leaving a lot of money on the table over the last 12 months but thats just one of those things. The good news is you now know this so if you have any sites with amazon on try adding text links instead of using widgets and pictures and see how much more you earn.

I believe people click the text links more as thats what people are used to, not only that widgets and pictures clearly show what product they are going to look at so that will greatly reduce your CTR. By using text links your traffic cant see anything untill they get to amazon but by that time the cookie has already dropped and if that peson buys anything in the next 24 hours you will get a commission from what ever they purchase.

I hope you have found this useful. This one tip has earned me an extra $300 for no extra work so im sure it will make you more money too.

Look out for my next post where i explain about checking google for competition

see ya

paul