Squidoo is one of the most popular sites on the web. Savvy marketers have learned to piggy-back on that market penetration to build what Squidoo calls “lenses” to market all kinds of goods and services. A while back, the Squidcrafter tools was released to make building lenses so much easier than the native Squidoo process. Now there’s a custom version called SquidCrafter for Amazon that builds Amazon affiliate lenses. It’s not easy to build an Amazon lens since Squidoo and Amazon follow incompatible standards, and there’s a lot of work to get them to play nice with... [...]

Spammers may get an occasional sale, but they are jerks. They waste untold time and money of their victims. All in their hope to make a buck. But you don’t have to be like them to earn a living online. Amazon affiliates can earn more without resorting to spammy methods. Today, at 10 AM EST ( 3 PM in London) Igor Urban is launching This is a WordPress plugin that rests quitely behind the scenes until a visitor to your affiliate site visits a page for a product you are promoting. Then,it automatically pulls listing for competing products, headed “You may also like”) and builds... [...]

Michael Mac has just released his latest niche marketing package for an Amazon niche. This time he tackles household cleaning equipment in Spring Cleaning Riches. Amazon is an affiliate marketer’s dream, a wide selection of products, a great reputation, and capacity to sell and then ship as many products as you can sell for them,products so you never have to worry about the customer giving up while waiting (and causing you to lose your commission.) As usual, Michael provides a wide range of marketing creative materials to help you get your affiliate site on track to greater sales: •... [...]

Gaz Cooper and his partner, Steveie have produced 5 niche-oriented Amazon affiliate sites (he calls them “seed sites” because he expects you to build a bigger site based on them) to get you started on the right path for your affiliate marketing. This is his first set (with more to come) so he calls this set Amz Authority Zone 1. His five niches are: 1. Healthy Living 2. Triathlon 3. Gardening 4. Golf 5. Metal Detecting Each site comes with: • A top-quality premium theme with 3 premium plugins • 5 Amazon product reviews in the niche • A custom-written e-book for the niche •... [...]

Any Amazon affiliate site is improved by having an attractive function theme. The latest of these is AmaGrande WP Theme, a flexible powerful theme by Johan Efendi. This new theme has a lot of power on its own, but is also compatible with the best-known Amazon plugins: AmaNiche, WP ZonBuilder, WP Robot and Associate Goliath. AmaGrande WP Theme offers: • Five built-in languages • Seven Amazon stores (.com, .UK, etc.) • Both manual posting and automated posting allowed • Rich Snippet support • A discount finder • Other top features that will make your site more professional Your... [...]

The latest product from George Katsoudas is Auto Azon Banner adds banners to your blog advertising Amazon products, and does it in minutes. You select the product category and the banner size and this new (very new; it is just becoming available at 10 AM EST today) plugin from George Katsoudas does the rest. The banner will “fade in” and appear on the right side of your blog a few seconds after the page loads. This delayed appearance will draw the attention of your visitors, resulting in more clicks. The plugin can find the exact search term that your visitors used to find your blog... [...]

Ken Reno has just released new training for Amazon affiliates in Amazon Training Bootcamp. [...]

Michael Mac has just released one of his famous Amazon affiliate marketing materials packages, this time on Renewable Energy Essentials. This complete set of marketing creative content and ideo reviews for Amazon niche products will get you started in style. It’s so good that in the first 12 hours he sold over 100 copies. As usual, he has included many marketing aids for you: ► 50 high quality review videos for profitable green energy products. ► 6 professional banner graphics (including the PSDs) for the green energy niche ► Hundreds of “exact match” keywords (with search... [...]

Laptops, tablets, desktops; all are high-priced products. We all have one or more and use them on a daily basis. And as marketers, we know one thing more: they all have high commissions. The computer hardware industry is one of the most dynamic niches in the business world. People and businesses are constantly upgrading their hardware to take advantage of the new software applications, video games and technology standards. As a result, there is a major opportunity for Amazon affiliates; the demand is huge and so are the commissions. The average computer product is priced between $500 and $1000... [...]

Reviews of Amazon products can drive affiliate sales from your Amazon site. But creating a review (or a set of comparative reviews) is a complex process. You need to gather several pieces of information about each product you review and arrange them into an information block for the product to place on your site. Historically, this has been time-consuming. Simple Azon Plugin simplifies this process to just a few clicks. And when the Simple Azon Plugin plugin is in your blog, your assistants can build your posts without needing to get into your Amazon affiliate account, so your earnings information... [...]