Just curious
I’ve just tallied last month’s download totals of the new spreadsheet versions. They come to about 2000 downloads.
The observant among you will have noticed that I’ve set things up so that clicking through and buying through amazon will earn me a little bit from each purchase. Thing is, I’ve noticed that if you do that and then click on product descriptions on the pages you’re directed to on amazon, my little tag in the URL that should credit me disappears.
If the customer clicks around enough looking at products once they’re through to the amazon site, the link between me sending them to the site and the site itself gets broken. In other words, amazon seem to have it nicely worked out that unless someone buys directly from my little page, I get squat and they profit by my advertising at no cost to themselves.
So, that’s my theory. Call it a conspiracy one if you like.
To test this, I wonder if anyone out there who’s downloaded the spreadsheet and actually bought something using one of my links could let me know.
If you have, my theory is absolutely correct and amazon SUCK. If not, no one’s bought anything and the total of $0.00 on my account is absolutely accurate. But then that’s kind of sad too 🙁
So, anyone care to own up to actually buying anything through one of my links?
I’ve long given up on making any money from Amazon — I’ve had a link on my site for three years and despite very many click-throughs I’ve made the sum total of £1.98.
The only way to make any money from Amazon is to sell items on their marketplace site — they take a cut, but if you sell enough second-hand books you can make a small sum.