I’m going to post a list of items associates should be featuring on they’re sites to increase sales and gain the vital search engine placement for these popular school items before it’s too late. This is my back to school list:

Hope this list helps some amazon associates out there. If you haven’t yet created an e-commerce site, you may want to check out the specialists at E-commerce for Everyone. They are the premier developers of amazon web stores, as can be seen by this impressive amazon associates showcase page.

Back to school is one of many major shopping events that retailers everywhere are preparing for. If you haven’t done so yet, don’t worry to much, it’s a shopping event that comes every year, and for colleges, several times a year. Several other major online shopping events that you can also prepare for are Halloween, Black Friday, Cyber Monday, Holiday Shopping.

Happy Selling!

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We’ve recently added the ability for our customers to browse and purchase available Amazon Kindle e-books from our site. When you purchase your Kindle e-book from us, it’s added to your account, and readily made available for download on your Kindle. I like the idea of being able to keep up with all of the blogs I’m interested in, in one single device that I can actually carry with me on my day to day tasks. If there’s one thing I hate, its wasting time, so when I find myself in situations where I have to wait on people, like in the mechanic shop, barbershop or airports, I can now pull out my Kindle, and read something worth while. Here are a few of the blogs on Kindle that you can purchase subscriptions to.

The Kindle has been in high demand recently, so much so that Amazon has run out of the devices on several occasions. Just the same way that the iPhone has revolutionized cell phones, and the iPod the mp3 and portable media market, I believe the Kindle is going to really disrupt the traditional book, magazine and newspaper industry. The Kindle doesn’t just make a great gift, but its just one of those kind of electronics that shows people you are not only a savvy consumer, but that you’re hip with what’s going on today and not behind the times (You don’t still have a vcr do you? lol).

Just remember, when you are ready to get your Kindle and or Kindle e-books, you can Order It On The Web.

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I use several tools that help me manage my Google Adsense account. One of my tools is a firefox plugin called Adsense Notifier. Another tool I used heavily was AsRep, however with the invention of Google Analytics, most of the stats I used it for are being covered by Google.

I recently added the following tags to help the Adsense bot target the ads better and ignore the other content:
google_ad_section_start
afterwards close it off with the following code at the end of your content section:
google_ad_section_end
note: above codes should be used in js comment tags (couldn’t include in this demo without them being parsed)
I’ve noticed that the ads on the pages were better targeted. In itself, it should make a noticeable improvement in my click through rate.

Another significant change I made to hopefully improve my earnings is the use of different channels for each department or section of the site. I believe this will be of major importance because instead of all of the advertisements being displayed with one channel or site id, they will now have they’re own ctr. So if it was a sitewide ctr, the earning per click would be lower because the overall number of impressions would be so high in comparison to the clicks, separating the site into multiple channels reduces the impression count per channel, and therefore increasing the ctr. I only made the change two days ago, but I’ve noticed that each click is now worth significantly more.

A couple of months back I was experimenting with the replacement of my standard site search in exchange for the Google site search. This has turned out to be one of the best Google Adsense moves I’ve done on this site. The new Google site search generates just over $50 per month. See the thing is that most people coming to the retail site want to search for things already anyway, so monetizing the search has just created money where none existed. Can’t complain. I’ll report back in a couple of blog posts regarding the success of using the channels to increase ctr and earnings.

Here are some books on Google Adsense you might be interested in:
The Google AdSense Handbook
The AdSense Code: What Google Never Told You About Making Money with AdSense
AdSense Unleashed: AdSense A-Z Plus 175 Killer Tips and Tricks
Make Easy Money with Google: Using the AdSense Advertising Program (Visual Quickstart Guides)

I highly recommend that all Amazon Associates use Google Adsense on their sites, if you haven’t done so yet, then what are you waiting for.

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http://www.75direct.com/
http://www.elephantmall.com
http://www.sportsdirectmegastore.com/
http://www.insideandouthomedecor.com/
http://www.bigamericansavings.com/
http://www.paradisebeautysupply.com/
http://www.dvdsmartreviews.com
http://www.planetmusicandbooks.com/
http://www.glamorousbeautysupply.com/

After a strong launch in E-commerce For Everyone is almost ready to release version 2 of their E4E Amazon Storefronts. Sure to have more features and enhancements, this new version will cement they’re status as the premier Amazon retail website developers. This new version will bring upgrades such as an xhtml compliant code base, social networking features, cleaner designs, higher resolution graphics, splash images, new product display tools and more.

E-commerce For Everyone is finally a breath of fresh air to Amazon Associates looking to affordably increase their earnings while making sure that they’re website stands out from the rest. All kinds of Associates are finding it easy to use the E4E Amazon Storefront to offer everything from general items to niche storefronts.

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The outstanding growth to our retail site is largely due to the fact that our e-commerce platform developed by E-commerce For Everyone, a start-up that specializes in amazon associate storefront solutions, has been built with search engine, and social network traffic in mind. We practice many traditional search marketing and website optimization techniques, but we also experiment with some very sophisticated techniques in our lab and demo sites.

We believe that some graphical enhancements has also encouraged return shoppers. Adding some high end splash images to our site makes it visually appealing and reinforces the OrderItOnTheWeb.com brand. The images also do a great job displaying product images in a way that conveys a sense of style to the site visitor. A recent test with the iPod increased sales of the product 400%.

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As a small online retailer, we know that every individual can make a big impact for a start-up. We thought it’d be a great idea to give fans of our site an opportunity to win fun prizes just for telling people about us and spreading the word. For our first contest we thought $100.00 US would be fun. We may try iPods, Zunes, Music and Dvds in our future contests depending on the result of this one.

Participating in our contest is so easy, that all you have to do is give us a review in your own words with a link back to our site. Creating a link is easy to do. You could add a link anywhere, even your myspace or facebook pages. After finishing your post with link, please contact us to show us your post. Be sure to visit our Buzz Builder Contest page for the official rules and thanks for participating.

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OrderItOnTheWeb.com, shopping, community, contest

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The focus of these features was to allow people to find their favorite brands easier, and to enhance the media selections as books, music and dvds are big sellers for us. This is sure to save shoppers time as well, for example, when I’m shopping for sneakers, I automatically want to see only Nike and Addidas. As a shopper this gives me the ability to turn a mall into a specialty boutique on the fly.

This enhancement not only helps shoppers find what they are looking for while on the site, but it also helps them find what they are looking for using their search engines. We’re very excited about this new feature and will continue to measure the results of its impact.

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OrderItOnTheWeb.com, programming, shopping, search

We’ve had fun building up the site this year and look forward to adding in new features for 2008. This December we received just under 50,000 visits. We still have a long way to go, but look forward to another impressive year of sales. I’m not sure if we’ll reach them for inside of 2008, but some goals I’d like to meet would be as follows:

I believe that if we reach each or all of the goals, that we’ll have a stronger online presence and increased customer loyalty. Anyways, those are just a few of the goals we’re going to be working on for 2008.

There are some other sites which our in our e-commerce network which I haven’t had the opportunity to introduce before hand, but I’m going to list them here, as these will be some hot Amazon Associate Websites to watch:

http://www.trueinternetdeals.com
http://www.shoppingdealsmadeeasy.com/
http://www.onlineshoppingwith.us/
http://www.theinternetsupermarket.com/
http://www.savebigshopsmart.com/
http://www.savebigstore.com/
http://www.savebigmegamall.com/
http://www.realshoppingdeals.com/
http://www.theinternetcornerstore.com/
http://www.bettershoponline.com/
http://www.bigstoresavings.com/
http://www.stockmyoffice.com/
http://www.allphonedeals.com/

These new web properties are part of the new E-commerce For Everyone network of sites. Marketing for the other sites is about to begin. I hope to have each one aggressively selling products and being profitable like OrderItOnTheWeb.com was in 2007. I may possible setup shopping blogs and shopping forums on the other sites depending on the success I have with the social shopping community here.

Each one of these new websites gives us the opportunity to test our new designs, target niches, selling tactics, increase customer base, sell some advertising like our Google Adsense, drive traffic between the network, and generate more sales ultimately. It’ll be exciting to see how that all plays out. Check back here on our blog for more updates.

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Developed with the help of EcommerceForEveryone.com (an amazon associates storefront developer), OrderItOnTheWeb.com has been using the Amazon Associates Web Service (A2S) as it’s e-commerce platform since it’s launch.

We operate no differently then any other online retailer, however, we have the added advantage of being Amazon Associates.

Just like every other retailer this year, we we’re gearing up for holiday shopping sales and trying to add value to our web properties. We launched a new online shopping forum to provide a social shopping experience for our growing community of shoppers and deal seekers.

What exactly is the added advantage of becoming an Amazon Associate or using Amazon Associates Web Services (A2S)? It means that our customers get the world class order fulfillment from the best in the online retail industry. When orders are placed on OrderItOnTheWeb.com , Amazon’s product fulfillment warehouse is preparing the product to be shipped out. For web shoppers this means that they receive their product on time and at the best possible price. This is one of the exciting new movements of what I’ll call e-commerce 2.0, the second round of e-commerce where the limits and barriers to large scale e-commerce are removed by the use of affiliate and associate commerce.

E-commerce 2.0 means that affiliates and associates can compete for sales head to head with large scale fortune 500 companies. Consider that Target.com is using Amazon’s e-commerce platform, the same platform that is available via Amazon Associates Web Service. Add in e-commerce website marketing and an amazon associate could end up inside of the first 3 pages of search results for something like online shopping deals (example), or other popular search terms, beating not only some of the top companies for search results but even the product manufacturers themselves.

What does this all mean? It means that in a short amount of time, more and more associates will begin to beat fortune 500 companies for search engine results and sales. If you think affiliates can’t rank well for search placement, then you obviously haven’t read search engine optimization for amazon web services. In any case, I’ve seen an increase in associate shopping sites and I think its great. Not only does it give consumers more options, but more business opportunities for small companies and individuals.

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