Thursday

Site Stripe Tool At Amazon.com


Right now I'm marketing my Associate-O-Matic stores full tilt, trying to capitalize on the online shopping before Christmas. I'm tweaking on a daily basis, changing categories, focusing on keywords, etc and adding links to my blogs where I normally wouldn't bother. If you haven't been to the new Amazon.com Affiliate Dashboard recently then it's time you go back and check it out. Amazon has spent a lot of time updating the usability and tools to use to help make affiliates more successful and one new tool stuck out at me more than the others.

Amazon.com now offers a Site Stripe tool that embeds itself at the top of your browser while you are on Amazon.com. This 'Stripe' allows you to automatically generate an affiliate link for any page you are currently visiting and more.

List of Features for Amazon Site Stripe Tool
  • Generate link for page viewed.
  • View earnings.
  • Visit discussion board.
  • Add items to your aStore.
It's made a world of difference in time saved when viewing the Amazon website and looking to generate some quick links to throw in a blog. If you haven't had time to check it out yet, go now, you may be wasting your time with other methods.

Monday

GoDaddy Domain Club




Part of being an online affiliate marketer is watching deals and trying to maximize your profits, that's why I scour for every deal I can find for myself personally. Today I received an email with a special promotion to join the GoDaddy domain club, where I can receive additional discounts on buying .com domains. However, belonging to this club requires a yearly membership, which at this time is $71.99.

Specifically I'm considering this membership because of the deal you get on .com domains all year. When you join the club they lock in your .com pricing to just $7.29 per year. Not taking any other coupons or discounts the current full price of a .com domain (which is usually what you are forced to pay when renewing) is at $10.69 for one year. Well, I'm not so sure joining this club will be worth it to me, see the math below.

Savings Per .Com Domain : $10.69 - $7.29 = $3.40
$71.99 / $3.40 = 21 Domains

Basically I would have to purchase over 21 domains to just break even on the GoDaddy domain club deal. Currently I only purchase about a dozen new domains per year, so it's clearly not in my best interest to start joining their club...just yet. This formula doesn't even take into consideration that I typically don't pay full price for domains anyways, since coupons are readily available.

Keep this in mind fellow affiliate marketers, just because it's a good deal doesn't mean it's a good deal for you. Consider all options before jumping into an offer and save money at every corner.