How Jake Earned an Extra $379 Per Month in Amazon Earnings with Just 1 Hour of Work

I don't usually try to write sensational headlines.  However, I don't know how else to put it.

Jake put in about 1 hour of work and has now earned $379.51 directly from that work…in the past 30 days.

I want to show you exactly what he did and how you can do the same with your own websites.  This is a strategy that isn't particularly hard to implement; however, in the past it has been extremely time consuming.

However, Jake has been using a brand new software tool (which I created) that makes this job that normally can take hours to only a few minutes.

Let's jump into it!

The Earnings Proof

Before I go any further, I want to share the “money shot”.  Jake has provided this screenshot from JUST ONE of his Amazon affiliate tracking Ids.

This tracking ID was set up specifically to track this strategy, so we know with 100% certainty that all the additional earnings he is seeing come from this new tactic.

Here's the screenshot:

Jake's Site Before the Changes

We have all probably heard the term, “money articles”.  These are the articles that target buying keywords like “best survival knife” or “best can opener” that are obviously related to products that people want to buy.

These articles are easy to monetize and typically is where most of our Amazon affiliate sites are going to make money.

However, if you are smart, you also tend to write articles on more informational topics like, “how to shave” or “how to stop biting fingernails”.  Informational articles can sometimes be easier to rank for and can often have lots of traffic associated with them.

Unfortunately, many times these informational articles are difficult to monetize.

Jake happens to own a site in the home services industry. Without being too specific, it covers common problems that homeowners have that they can often handle themselves, but in many cases they'll hire a professional to come in and do the work. 

It just so happens that the niche his site is focused on doesn't have a ton of products he can be writing about.  As a result, most of his site is made up of informational articles; while only a few are the “money articles”.

As a result, he's mostly just focused on pay per click ads to monetize his site (like Google adsense or Adthrive).  In terms of traffic, this strategy has worked out pretty well for him!  

See his traffic stats below:

See his earnings from AdThrive Here:

Imagine for example, if the site was about getting stains out of clothes – 95% of the articles on the site are about topics like “how to get grease out of a shirt” and “does cold water clean better than hot water.” 

Jake's site was in a similar vein, but he never knew how to monetize these sites outside of pay per click ads…that is until recently.

How Jake Used My New Table Creation Tool

As I mentioned in my last blog post, I've been working on developing a software tool that helps you create beautiful looking product comparison charts in minutes.  These charts automatically pull in images, descriptions, prices, and other details from Amazon (hooray for being Amazon compliant!).  And of course, it automatically inserts your Amazon Associates ID so you can make money.

I gave Jake early access to this tool, and he decided to test it out on his informational “home services” site.  He figured, “well, if I can make money on a few of my articles with product comparison tables, won't I make more money if I add them to more articles?”

Up until this point, he never wanted to go through the pain staking process of creating product comparison tables for each of these articles.  As you probably know, creating one table from scratch can easily take an hour or more.  When you have dozens or hundreds of articles, that becomes so overwhelming that it never gets done.

Once Jake started using my new software tool, he realized that he could create a chart in just a few minutes, without any coding required.

To make things simple, Jake used my software to create product comparison tables by category. So in my example above, he would have had a category about stain removal where all the articles about how to get certain stains out of certain garments would be placed. 

 

Then, Jake created a table to compare all the best stain removal products on Amazon, and used the Ad Inserter plugin to drop in a subheading of “Top Stain Removal Products” followed by a chart on every post in that category. Since Ad Inserter let's you specify, Jake simply put this chart after the 3rd paragraph of every article in the stain removal category. 

 

So as you can see, he was able to create one table and then insert it on dozens of relevant pages within just a few minutes. 

 

He followed the same steps for several other categories, so the products he was showing were always relevant to the problem the reader was having. In the end he created 8 tables and put them on about 225 pages of content based on category. 

 

(Up to this point, Jake had earned some Amazon affiliate income, but it was primarily through text links – like when he would mention a product in an article, he'd link to Amazon). 

 

For tracking purposes, Jake setup a separate tracking ID that he used exclusively on his new comparison tables so he could see exactly how it affected clicks and earnings.

 

This was actually the first time Jake had used the software, so creating 8 tables and putting them across his site took about 45 minutes to do. So, when I say it took Jake one hour to accomplish these results, I'm really rounding his time up from 45 mins!

 

So, before Jake used inserted these charts, he was making $0 from this special tracking ID.  After 30 days, this tracking ID made $379.51.

 

Not bad for an hour of work!

 

Example Comparison Chart

I thought you might be interested to see an actual table created using my software.  So, below I've created a table for you to browse.  I'm sticking with the stain removal theme from Jake's example.

So, the table below looks similar to the one's Jake used on his site.

 

 

What About His PPC Ad Performance? 

You may be wondering how sending more traffic to Amazon affected the pay-per-click ads that Jake was running. Sure, it's nice that his Amazon Associates earnings increased by $379, but did his other ad revenue decrease?

 

Jake recently moved over to AdThrive which is a more managed solution for serving ads, so the sample size here is pretty small. 

 

That said, the results might surprise you. 

 

August was Jake's first full month using Ad Thrive, and he installed his Amazon tables mid-August. So to get a fair look at how his PPC earnings were affected, he compared August 1 – 15th to August 16th – 30th. 

 

In the first half of the month he had 60,429 page views and made $789.28 from ppc ads. From the 16th to the 30th he had slightly less pageviews – 57,424, but actually made MORE money on his ppc ads – $893.60 to be exact.

 

Obviously, we can't say that installing Amazon comparison tables is what caused his pay per click revenue to increase – but if anything, Jake was expecting his PPC earnings to take a little bit of a dip. To see his PPC revenue actually increase while earning significantly more from Amazon was a pleasant surprise. 

 

Want More Ideas to Increase Your Amazon Associates Earnings?

Jake and I have had quite a bit of experience growing Amazon affiliate websites, and we have a few more ideas that we'd like to share.

 

As a result, on Wednesday (September 20th) at 5pm PST we will be holding a live training workshop!  During the training, we will cover a few unique ways we've used to increase our Amazon Associates earnings.  One of those ways is using comparison tables of course. 

 

Overall, we will dive deep into a few ideas that you might be missing on your websites right now, that can really boost your earnings.

 

And yes, of course I will also be showing off my new software tool for creating comparison tables towards the end of the webinar and give you a chance to be one of the first people to use it.  I'll also be offering a REALLY sweet bonus for those webinar attendees that decide to become a user of my new software tool.

 

I'll share more on Wednesday night.

For now, please reserve your spot for the live training right here! 

Your Thoughts

As usual, I would love to hear any thoughts or questions that you have in the comments section below.  Have you seen good results from using product comparison tables as well?

 

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