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I never use the actual amazon banner ads because they are so bad, I try my best to make it look like a blog and only put images and links with relevant products. I had a buy it now on one product but it didn't seem to work at all.

I think I just really need to get up higher and of course I wasn't expecting much with a cheap stuffed animal BUT hopefully I can repeat this success with a higher priced product in a different niche, rank in the top and make a few bucks.

I still get a little sad about my adsense but I have heard some really good stuff about Amazon from some seemingly reliable sources. Can't cry over spilled milk though

Thanks again and I will post an update if I get up in the top and start seeing some more dough! It's gonna be hard work because most of the other sites are either big chains or pretty decent.

All except one which recently came out of nowhere to rank #3. STRANGE THING is that it just has an error page that says Index of with a link to ftp.quota????

I checked it out with open site explorer it has some crazy Page Rank or Authority whatever of 80. I checked some of the backlinks and they were very odd with Arabic writing on them.  Not sure what that site is about or where it came from about a week ago but I couldn't imagine it staying around long and hopefully it will go away and improve my rankings!

Oops I clicked for the reply to go here but somehow it is at the bottom so see that response

@Kieran I think I am good now with the info EGOL gave me! Thanks though for taking the time!

@EGOL thank you so much! Your advice was better than anything I could have received with a paid consultation.  Really!

This information is exactly what I was looking for:

1. My site was #8 but I made some recent changes that dropped it to #9 but I think it will bounce back hopefully higher! So now I know that my conversion is okay, I just need to keep moving up.

2. Yes, that 3600 is for exact match not broad. For the month I would say I will end up with about 300 unique visits. So, about 10% which will probably also increase as my site reaches a higher ranking.

3. Adsense! Honestly, my acct. was banned shortly after I started it. I had a site that was on the first page (random dumb luck) without even any content. I threw up some relevant content and opened my adsense acct. and got my first clicks. Told my spouse and out of a goodhearted intent to help, clicked up my adds without me knowing. POOF! About 3 days later, my first dollars were gone!

Word of advice to all, don't tell those you love or friends about your sites specifically because it really can go wrong quick BUT it was a blessing in disguise because it taught me so much and improved my sites. I had to really search and figure out my alternatives.

4. Now I know my results are normal and not to take it to heart to much when I see big shots exclaiming they have gone from $0 to over a $1000 in a few months without even working that much. BS!!!!  Maybe, just maybe with Adsense but Amazon seems to be a whole different animal.

People get impulsive and will click on an ad but getting them to buy is alot harder but worth it I think.

So my goal will be to get up higher than #8 and #9 as well as increasing the time ppl spend on the site.

Thanks again!!!

This is probably true (the networking thing), but I am soooooooo horrible at this, and fortunately my niches are mostly low comp. so I find the article writing for sites like squidoo work wonders for my site.

Like I said, haven't tried squidoo yet but I am going to soon, and I agree with Dan that you need to make sure the article is well written for it to work.

Thanks this helps me a lot! I am just going to go ahead and try to build the site as an informative website on the subject. Put some adsense up and see how it goes.

I go to digg and also write a unique e-zine article as well. Have been thinking about doing a squidoo as well because I always see them turn up in the search results.

Good luck!

Right that makes sense, I guess I am wondering if there is any way to turn the traffic itself into money OR is it just an overall boost in my ranking power and I will still need to find a way to rank for keywords that will bring in money.

I am new to ranking for images and curious about whether this type of search ever translates to clicks and money???!!!

I have a lot of visitors who bail right away and many who stay for only about 30 seconds, probably to download the image. But there is prob 1 out of 10 ppl who came through and image search who stay quite a while. I would imagine those ppl might click on something Adsense, Amazon, or whatever is there.

Any info advise on image search specifically would be greatly appreciated!

I was just in here yesterday asking a question, so I appreciate everyone's patience with this newbie!

This is a totally different site that I have a question about so here goes:

I have a site that has started to receive large amounts of traffic from an image search. My intention was to use Amazon for products based on my website theme. I haven't been getting traffic from my intended keywords.

Now I rank #2 for an image search, loads of traffic! GREAT! But what next? These ppl. aren't looking to buy stuff, they just want the image. Fine, it is a public domain image.

I thought of adding some more informational articles and using adsense to bring in some cash.

Any opinions on the best way to go with this site?  I only have 3 articles up so it could go in any direction from here.

Thanks!!!

Thank you both! These are great answers and probably true in this case but I guess that would lead me to a secondary question.

I have seen questions in here about pages not being crawled with the SEOMOZ Campaign tool. So I hate to now post the question, "why are my pages not being crawled?"

But that is the mystery. As soon as I made the new allow all robots text file and submitted it, I checked and instantly my pages were being crawled again. Now nothing again, it just sits at N/A. As well as the traffic dropped off...

Confusing. But I am just going to give it awhile to look for overall patterns or maybe it is a glitch with the SEOMOZ tool that just happens to be corresponding with the traffic dips. LOL, I know strange things like this do occur in this business.

Thanks and if anyone has anymore ideas I am happy to hear them.  I was worried I had some sort of malware or whatever the hackers do to your site????!!!!

@EGOL thank you so much! Your advice was better than anything I could have received with a paid consultation.  Really!

This information is exactly what I was looking for:

1. My site was #8 but I made some recent changes that dropped it to #9 but I think it will bounce back hopefully higher! So now I know that my conversion is okay, I just need to keep moving up.

2. Yes, that 3600 is for exact match not broad. For the month I would say I will end up with about 300 unique visits. So, about 10% which will probably also increase as my site reaches a higher ranking.

3. Adsense! Honestly, my acct. was banned shortly after I started it. I had a site that was on the first page (random dumb luck) without even any content. I threw up some relevant content and opened my adsense acct. and got my first clicks. Told my spouse and out of a goodhearted intent to help, clicked up my adds without me knowing. POOF! About 3 days later, my first dollars were gone!

Word of advice to all, don't tell those you love or friends about your sites specifically because it really can go wrong quick BUT it was a blessing in disguise because it taught me so much and improved my sites. I had to really search and figure out my alternatives.

4. Now I know my results are normal and not to take it to heart to much when I see big shots exclaiming they have gone from $0 to over a $1000 in a few months without even working that much. BS!!!!  Maybe, just maybe with Adsense but Amazon seems to be a whole different animal.

People get impulsive and will click on an ad but getting them to buy is alot harder but worth it I think.

So my goal will be to get up higher than #8 and #9 as well as increasing the time ppl spend on the site.

Thanks again!!!