Should I Still Promote Amazon After They Slashed Affiliate Commissions?

[Tonyshm]

Now that Amazon has cut their commissions: Is it worth the effort to be monetizing a site via Amazon Affiliates?
Or should we monetize with other Affiliate Networks like everyone is saying? Even if the possibility that the conversion might t be lower. In my particular case, I was planning to start a site with only Amazon as the source of income, but right now I am kind of lost.
To the people that have one of these sites what's your plan?

Thanks a lot.

 

[JamaicanMoose]

Now that Amazon has cut their commissions: Is it worth the effort to be monetizing a site via Amazon Affiliates?
Or should we monetize with other Affiliate Networks like everyone is saying? Even if the possibility that the conversion might t be lower. In my particular case, I was planning to start a site with only Amazon as the source of income, but right now I am kind of lost.
To the people that have one of these sites what's your plan?

Thanks a lot.

I am going to continue monetizing with Amazon Affiliates. My sites are rather large so it's hard to find another affiliate program that has all (or nearly all) of the products I have reviewed. There are many individual affiliate programs that I could get into, but managing them all would be a huge pain in the ass. The pull-through generated from non-direct Amazon conversions is huge. I don't know of any other affiliate program that can come close to that. That helps close the % gap.

 

[Tonyshm]

I am going to continue monetizing with Amazon Affiliates. My sites are rather large so it's hard to find another affiliate program that has all (or nearly all) of the products I have reviewed. There are many individual affiliate programs that I could get into, but managing them all would be a huge pain in the ass. The pull-through generated from non-direct Amazon conversions is huge. I don't know of any other affiliate program that can come close to that. That helps close the % gap.

Hi mate,
Thank you for your helpful comment. If you were to start a new site would you still go with Amazon or find other networks right of the bat? Or monetize them with Ads or even CPA?

 

[WinMore]

It really depends in where you are, and the products you are trying to sell.

For example, in my country Amazon is big, but not the biggest. So I went to their competitor.
In some niches Amazon isn't the biggest, so maybe skip them.

But if Amazon is the biggest provider of the products you are trying to sell in your country, or you have a very wide catalog of products you are trying to shill for, I would guess it's more effective than going for something else.

If you have the option to skip them without hurting yourself, I would say 100% skip them. Their monopoly is turning into a problem, like google.
But at the end of the day, you need to do what is best for YOU.

Good luck.
EDIT: don't forget to TEST. You can try different approaches and different affiliate programs. You don't have to be doing only one.

 

[Tonyshm]

It really depends in where you are, and the products you are trying to sell.

For example, in my country Amazon is big, but not the biggest. So I went to their competitor.
In some niches Amazon isn't the biggest, so maybe skip them.

But if Amazon is the biggest provider of the products you are trying to sell in your country, or you have a very wide catalog of products you are trying to shill for, I would guess it's more effective than going for something else.

If you have the option to skip them without hurting yourself, I would say 100% skip them. Their monopoly is turning into a problem, like google.
But at the end of the day, you need to do what is best for YOU.

Good luck.
EDIT: don't forget to TEST. You can try different approaches and different affiliate programs. You don't have to be doing only one.

Thanks for the advice mate! Me, personally, it won't hurt me since I in the planning phase. You are right that we need to search for other affiliate programs. I will use your advice in order to test and see what works best. Did you have any websites that were affected by the update? What's your plan now?

 

[WinMore]

My plan didn't change, I just use the competitor. For UK and US, I found suppliers that are just as trustworthy (if not more so) than Amazon. I don't have a lot of traffic from there, so that wasn't a big priority. Currently waiting for their affiliate approval. But that's very niche dependent. I currently have no Amazon.
I might try some links to them in the future, but honestly, not very motivated for that atm.

I do have a question of my own:

I have a little bit of trouble understanding the Google Search Console data.
I imagine Average positions is all pages on this website? I would guess that's pretty good. (That means there are pages doing better, and some are quite recent)
CTR seems to be bad (I guess I should aim for about 10% at least?)
The 2 query's show, in my understanding, that's pretty decent? Only 10 impressions and 1 click sounds good to me.

I'm just wondering if I'm interpreting this right... And I know there is not a lot of data to go on, but that will improve

Website is 2 months old.

 

[bernard]

That data only makes sense for individual pages and queries. Generally, if you have a lot more impressions than clicks, then it means you could optimize some of your pages better for other keywords and most important, it could mean you are ranking for terms, you haven't yet optimized for and that's where the gold is.