The Good Old Days With the Amazon Affiliate Program

Back in the good old days, when I wasn't yet persona non grata for the Amazon Associate program and when collaborating with Amazon was still lucrative, I was the proud owner of around a hundred Amazon affiliate shops. You see, working with Amazon still pays off today, though the earnings are only a fraction of what they used to be (I mean around 2008-2010). I used Seeyouguys as the homepage for all those shops. You can see how it looked here: Or here: Seeyouguys in 2010 As you can see, I relied on exact match domain names and interlinked content across this micro-network. And it worked brilliantly. Some pages had a few hundred visits per month, while others had several thousand. Overall, the entire network was peaking at around 200-300 thousand visits per month. On average, these shops had a 5% click-through rate to the Amazon website, and about 5% of those visits resulted in a purchase on Amazon. On average, one purchase consisted of 1.4 products. The average price of a purchased...