hey what's up this session is how to
localize Amazon links and we're gonna
talk about I'll give you some tips today
right now so welcome if it's your first
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there's a new folks so today the topic
is about localizing your you know
affiliate links and basically that means
you can earn affiliate commissions in
you know different associate programs so
I'll get into the nuts and bolts I'll
talk about the pros and cons if you have
a question today you can leave it in the
chat however if it is not about the
topic today I'm probably going to skip
it and I'll save it though I love to get
questions I'm gonna save it until Friday
general questions that is the place to
ask I'm assuming everyone could hear me
otherwise people would be yelling at me
like hey we can't hear you and all that
kind of stuff but today this is about
geo targeting I'm gonna give you some
options I'll tell you some free options
I'll tell you some paid options for any
of the paid options I'm probably in an
affiliate so there are links I hope in
the description and I'm gonna Philly it
I'll get a commission just want to let
you know ahead of time but I'm telling
you free options and here's the deal
when we get down to it I don't think a
lot of people need to do this localizing
stuff and I don't have any water or a
drink oh no I'm gonna have to coffee er
but I'll mute cool I'm just gonna give
some shout outs in the chat before we
get rolling here here's how it's gonna
work
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some preamble stuff like we're doing
right now and then I'm gonna talk for a
while and I drew some pictures again all
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what's up okay let's get to it so I'm
gonna ignore the chat best I can
it's always it's honestly hard to ignore
the little scrolling stuff going on over
there so localizing links that's what
we're talking about today and hopefully
this is kind of bright enough but how
about that so localizing affiliate links
like why would we why would we do that
so you know I think probably if you're
watching this you know it's it's money
right if you can get additional
commissions you can make more money and
that's kind of what we're building these
sites for sure we want to like make the
internet better and everything like that
help people but at the end of the day
we're building the science so you can
hopefully get a commission and you know
everyone has a different why but we're
trying to make money so the theory is
and here's where I kind of got hung up
and first learned about it there was a
plugin out there and they were like hey
I added these global you know programs
for Amazon and I added these new
affiliate links but you know I didn't
have to do anything special but if
traffic comes from say Canada and the
site is based on at the US like I am if
a Canadian surfs over to my site they
clicked the affiliate link they'll go to
their local you know Amazon dot see hey
right they'll go to the Canadian version
I won't get a commission so I'm losing
out on revenue so the theory is if you
can recapture that revenue if they go
through your affiliate link it may end
up on the Canadian version then you get
a commission right so if you amplify
this by like you know all the different
affiliate programs out there you think
hey it can make some money so the reason
I sort of got interested in it way back
when I first got started in 2013 I heard
about it and the case studies were like
awesome right so someone added these Geo
targeting the localizing links and
basically they made you know thousands
of dollars more instantly with no
additional work right well they were
selling a plugin right so that that's
the deal right so they were selling a
plug-in so they were highlighting these
cases and I was like you know I looked
at my data and I'm gonna get into that a
second but I looked at my data and I saw
that indeed I had some traffic and maybe
I could make some some additional money
I heard from a couple friends who were
getting you know even more traffic from
international sources and they made
several hundred extra dollars per month
so when should you do this and should
you even do this is this a waste of time
now the other part I'll tell you is I
bought the plugin I tried to use it I
didn't make any additional money it was
like you know fifteen bucks or something
it wasn't enough
to justify you know both the work the
cost of the plug-in and you know at some
point like you have to make a minimum of
mail before they cut a check so for me I
tried it and it didn't work that great
now that doesn't mean it won't work for
anyone it just means that time it didn't
work and then for about three years I
didn't worry about it
like I tried it and then I understood
why the data was so important so the
question is is it worth it to make an
investment in a plug-in or to even like
use one of the free options in you know
work on it that way so here's how you
figure it out it's pretty
straightforward and here is the the
check point that you have to go through
so go over to Google Analytics or you
know wherever you're checking or
monitoring and what am I trying to say
your traffic go to Google Analytics and
check your traffic and then you can see
where the traffic's coming from if you
have a graph that looks something like
this where most of your traffic is from
the US but there's only like a tiny
little fraction it's coming from like
international sources then you probably
don't need to worry about it in fact I
didn't worry about it for a very long
time because it didn't it didn't matter
like it didn't matter there was such a
small amount of traffic it would have
been like making an extra yeah I have to
be cautious here but it'd be like making
an extra $50 a month which is a small
percentage now the thing is would it add
up would it be interesting yes however
it doesn't mean that it's a hundred
percent worth it so I ignored it for a
long time because here's why there were
other things that I could do or much
higher leverage some of those things may
have been like adding 200kg are articles
right that is a much higher leverage
activity versus like trying to you know
add you know two three percent
additional you know revenue or maybe
it's like two percent of the traffic or
something like that so I'm not using
specific numbers because I drew this
picture but maybe this
next one Oh help so if your graph looks
anything like this you could probably
ignore it for some time
additionally right the other aspect is
if you're not getting much traffic at
all so let's say your graph actually
looks more like this baby where maybe
like 20% of your traffic is coming from
Canada and the UK and the majority you
know is coming from the US but there's a
significant chunk right so if if your
graph looks like this you should
probably consider adding you know
international associates programs and
figuring out how you want to you know
add those links I'll get into that in a
second here's the thing that if your
graph looks like this but you're only
getting like I don't know a hundred
visitors a day or something probably
don't worry about it you should probably
spend your time on higher leverage
things again it could be adding more
content it could be getting more
backlinks it could be improving existing
content but there are a number of things
you could do they're probably more
important than trying to you know add a
global associate program it's just not
gonna it's not gonna be like all the
case studies you see most likely now
here's how you do it again I have a
couple of affiliate links below but I'll
tell you a couple free options as well
so it's fairly straightforward I mean
I've really simplified it with three
points here you signup for the other
associate program so that's the thing
you do have to sign up for like the
Canadian version or the UK version or
German or whatever so you have to sign
up for those other programs if you're
already in the US is fairly
straightforward I mean I think you sign
up and you're good to go
basically right away and then use a tool
to hopefully insert the links somehow
and the third is earn commissions right
so as far as your options there are a
couple just straight up for you ones so
first of all you can do it manually you
can log in to each one of the sort of
associate programs and my
try and place the links and tell people
to click different links based on where
they're at that's a very clunky version
I don't recommend that but it is free
there is also a tool put out by Amazon
that is it's like their Amazon link
builder or something like that and I
think it's still in beta but they do
have a tool out there and it does the
geo-targeting properly and it is indeed
you know Amazon's tool so you can use
that as well I haven't used that before
I've heard if you look at the reviews
there's mixed reviews for it again it's
a free option and you can just download
it and use it right another option is
called one link in that I have used so
if you log into your Amazon associate
account you have you'll probably see a
link like hey you could check out this
new tool one link that seems fairly
straightforward there's a couple steps
involved but it's it took me maybe 10
minutes to do so you link up your other
international accounts to u.s. account
or wherever your primary account is so
it links them up and then you insert one
line of code onto your site usually in
the like the head scripts and stuff like
that so you may have to figure out how
to do that in your theme or figure out
how to do it for your specific site and
then you place that piece of code in
there and that geo targets properly some
people have speculated that it threw off
their earnings and their traffic and all
that stuff I personally have not seen
that I have heard multiple people talk
about it but I've never seen actual data
where they tested it I think sometimes
traffic goes up sometimes clicks go up
and down I think the people were
paranoid to be honest with you okay
further a couple of the paid tools one
is easy Azon then I'll recommend and the
other is a WP I really like a WP it
seems to be a little bit more modern
again I am an affiliate for these so
keep that in mind but they are solid
tools and you know for a WP I do like it
because it I think it has a better
looking sort of interface and
seems to be more versatile so it's
pretty popular and I have you know
exchanged a couple emails with the
founder seems pretty awesome and it
looks like a great tool and I've looked
at it for a long time before I actually
mentioned it to anyone in a public forum
like this but I would check it out and I
think you know it's it's a viable tool
now let me just double check to see if I
mentioned any other any other things in
the description here so AWP you have
easy Azon you have one link oh and
genius link so genius link is another
sort of you know option it's really a
more powerful tool than just globalizing
you can manage your just links on your
site so it allows you to redirect in a
specific way but genius link can be
great to use I you know I have heard
mixed reviews on that I think a couple
years ago I remember that some servers
go down when there was a you know some
major issue on the internet like a lot
of different servers went down and
genius link was one of them
it cost a particular friend of mine a
decent amount of cash because none of
the links were routed properly which was
unfortunate so genius link can be
powerful I know a lot of people use it
for their affiliate management or
affiliate link management within like
say YouTube or just on their site in
general it's a powerful tool and again I
know the people at genius link I've
actually guest posted there so they do a
fantastic job really good customer
service it's worth it to check out so
those are the main options again there
are free options and overall I'm going
to say you really need to take a look at
your traffic and make sure you're
focusing your time on like the highest
leverage thing so if you have an
afternoon to you know get this going
maybe that's okay if you're getting the
right amount of traffic and if you are
you know I guess the right amount of
traffic in the right like demographic of
traffic we really coming from
so the geography and the data it all
matters a lot and I ignored it for a
very long time because there were much
better things for me to spend my time on
okay going back to the chat Thanks
hopefully everything was cool in there
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let's see okay we have Thomas from
Baltimore I'll just hit the people that
I missed before we got chill sunny
Shanna
we have eBay okay so Shopify is asking
about a keyword that's too competitive
mainly you would look at the competition
and see if it's too hard if you think
it's too hard then it's probably too
competitive for you it's a very deep
topic and too hard to explain right here
hiking gear what's up Nick is from
Wisconsin awesome daniel says you like
link builder mainly because it's a good
way to get high quality images from the
API good point so Daniel with link
builder you are indeed able to get like
bigger images and stuff nick says
another vote for a awp super easy to use
yep and then we have another another
good one so awp from fir hand says it's
good ace on tables is a good one in
one-off payment rather than a
subscription cool if for him by the way
the the question I had about A's on
tables do they allow the geo-targeting
to I tried to look in the documentation
before I published the description here
and I'll update it later but let me know
if they allow geo-targeting it
didn't have a chance to email the owner
this morning genius link is free for
less than a thousand clicks so good note
D card what's up and we have Papas D
what's up would it not be better just to
go all and we're trying to build a quite
a large site instead of a relatively
niche small niche site this will mean
better rankings for inner pages yes yeah
a large site and it all depends on your
definition so I have another video that
talks about a niche site versus
authority sites it's all your definition
so I don't really make small sites
myself niche site is just a site on a
specific topic hiking gear says you're
using awp for geo-targeting you're only
using one link from Amazon using a awp
for other purposes is it okay sure
is that working I mean if you're already
doing it then it must be okay Duke is on
you heard reports that genius link is
coming under fire because of the link
cloaking clause in the Terms of Service
Amazon wants to know where the link
originates from cool that is an
excellent point and I know genius link
has had to answer that multiple times
I think they cover it in their
documentation and stuff but from my
perspective I would I think like if you
say the link is going to Amazon like you
sort of cover yourself but yeah that was
always my worry but there have been
multiple instances were genius link
answered that the founder CEO went and
you know addressed it but yeah I would
kind of worry about that a bit myself
too and thank Duke as well another one
of the kind
moderators Barry is on what's up Chris
says you've been starting your own niche
site the geo-targeting really confuses
you from the starter phase would you
just stick to one geography and doing
keyword research just for that geography
yes that's what I would recommend get
the mechanics down first in the I mean
the big thing is like if you're just
starting and you are
if you're just starting and you're just
trying to get the first you know 10
visitors and make like your first 10
bucks and you can potentially make 2%
more like the 2% of the $10 is that
enough for the effort so I would say
just wait Chris yeah for sure
Frances genius link has changed the
options it allows the original link then
sends it to genius okay cool
that is good to know thank you for
adding that key frame what's up okay and
then easy Azon tables allows
geo-targeting for all markets cool
thanks for that for him I will add the
link and A's on tables is a great plugin
to of course make tables and it has all
the same sort of options that you would
get from you know these other tools that
I mentioned including the geo-targeting
and it has like the ability to add
tables it's a great plugin it's fairly
new and as for him mentioned it's it's
good because it's not like an ongoing
fee so it's probably one of the cheapest
ways to get into it and that sort of
thing David says sometimes there isn't a
product available let's say that your
Amazon site is us-based and someone
accesses it from Canada and they get
redirected there's no product is there a
way to redirect traffic to the USA
exclusively there to direct traffic
exclusively and I'm going to read and
deeper into your question and say you
mean per product that said I'm not sure
but I think once they get over to the
other geography the other associate
program you know they're cookie if they
make a purchase that's good but based on
what you're describing I don't think so
Berry says
good idea to create a niche site around
a single product but multiple types of
that product it's totally up to you of
course like many things it depends on
where you want to focus however I would
say I would usually Bran the site a
little bit more broadly so that you have
options in the future so let's say you
do pick one product and there are
multiple types of that product great
still branded a little more broadly you
never know in six months you may think
me and I found this other new product
it's pretty closely related but my
domain and all my branding is too narrow
so just make sure you give yourself
options in the future
dee Papa says you're the UK you can't
decide whether to target the US or the
UK can you offer your thoughts I do US
probably because the search volume is
probably bigger brain says um what I
like about genius link is that it will
show you the matching product as exact
or near if nothing is found that'll take
the visitor to the search page cool so
that is good to know - so genius link
well like if the product isn't available
like what David is saying then genius
link I'll get close right as close as
they can and if there isn't anything
that's close well then they will take it
take the visitor to the search page
where the cookie Adrian says one link
it's not accurate for you if your us
product link is about tennis balls when
it's redirected it shows basketballs
this is your experience with one one
link so far okay so Adrian yeah it
doesn't sound like that's a good match
there so yeah I would test with other
tools if you're interested but Adrian I
know don't worry about international
stuff right now and daniel-san
you're pretty sure one link setting say
it will only redirect if there's a
product available is something you know
you have the option for so that's great
to know there as well all right any
other questions on this topic a couple
things I want to point out is if you
haven't liked the video yet please like
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I appreciate it it's helpful for me and
the other thing is don't forget Friday
there's a general Q&A so there's a
general Q&A on Friday where I answer
some of the more random questions and
stuff like that alright so today I
prefer to just answer questions about
localizing Amazon affiliate links
otherwise I'll end up being here forever
in today I'm shooting a lot of videos so
by the way a couple people have
commented recently about like how many
videos I'm publishing and how I'm able
to do it so I'm actually doing sort of
like a little vlog type series where I'm
showing you what I'm doing additionally
like would people be interested in like
the systems and processes processes and
the things that I'm doing if so just let
me know in the chat or if you're
watching the replay let me know in the
comments because I do I've done this
multiple times in different areas and
what I have is really like sort of a set
of principles and principles and ideas
and processes that I've been doing so
published like 200 posts on one niche
site then I did it again the next year
then I did it on another site and I've
you know used it in different areas and
then I'm publishing roughly over the
last 30 days or so like 60 videos so and
I haven't been doing like you know crazy
work hours or really much additional
work it was just like putting a system
in place so if you're interested in that
stuff let me know I can put together a
little bit more information on it and
really put together sort of a series of
videos so okay cool let me see
what we have in the chat and don't
forget if you're watching the replay
please leave a comment you can answer
the questions in there as well alright
Daniel says one setting also lets you
choose to redirect this is one link
redirect if it's similar or an exact
match and then Daniel says ok then J
says maybe a question for Friday should
we use an Amazon specific theme or other
things yep that is a good one I'll try
and comb through the chat and pull pull
the questions here so obviously I want
to try and answer good questions in fact
I will do that before I close this
window
Sanjay says how is affiliate a good
content egg plugin for Amazon affiliate
sites I've never heard of so I can't
comment on that
alright and for instance you're always
interested to see the background
workings and you level the concert
recently thank you for that alright and
then homesteading says a kgr question
what if the kgr volume show zero okay so
Bosco totally up to you I usually will
publish those various since you're
interested in the process of YouTube
videos nick says you love to see it too
and Peter awesome thank you Chris says
you found some competitor articles
showcased products in the US but there's
nothing in the UK perhaps showcasing UK
could be advantageous if there's a UK
search volume yeah I think so that's a
good idea I never thought of that
Alexandra says you publish more content
that you can consume things appreciate
okay in quick note I like to generalize
it so I will give this specific example
of like the YouTube content push but
really I think it's more powerful
to like understand the process do you
agree in the chat that especially the
people that were interested in seeing
the process of YouTube specifically it's
good to have like real examples of what
I'm doing and then results I understand
that but I definitely want to like give
the this stuff that you could apply
across the board because that everyone
and in fact very few people have YouTube
channels so alright cool cool cool
Charles says you enjoyed the content
sprint in how I have the content
structured and more focused on the
topics and the best is real-world
example like yesterday's teardown great
value
cool good to hear and I may do it's an
interesting mix oh I'm I'm digressing
some on my own but it's an interesting
mix because I want to have like content
like this stuff yesterday the cool stuff
yesterday hey Georgie the cool stuff
yesterday like actually if you haven't
checked out that video like I'll try and
put a link in here but I tear down a
niche site right and I critiqued it
pretty hard and let you know what I like
and what it don't like so check it out
if you haven't seen it came out
yesterday morning a lot of discussion on
it already too so feel free to hop in
there ok so the thing is I went to
publish like stuff that can serve people
and help people that are just getting
started so it's an interesting mix and
one of the things that that happened
right so I had all the contents free
right so you can watch these videos free
and it's an interesting balance because
someone said hey Doug I don't like your
new videos because they are stories that
I already know and that means the person
is a good supporter right they know the
story's already and I wouldn't I don't
want to like alienate the supporters
that I already have so hopefully content
like yesterday is helpful but
unfortunately the person was
you know the Internet's the Internet
right so they were a little that they
were more forceful they were just like
hey you need to do a better job on
videos I want you to cover this stuff
and it's free you know it's free
material and I think the videos are
actually getting better so you know
instead of watching like a 45-minute
video I can put it into like 15 minutes
and say it in a better way now because
I've published so many freaking videos
okay let me get back to the chat here
homesteading or Bosco says I'll try and
remember your name Bosco content mega
solid but it won't pull up items not
available for affiliate programs but it
can be clumsy Charles says oh you saw
that and then Bosco says you can't
define for zero so just pad the volume
yet however you want to deal with it I
don't worry about it if I see a zero
search volume then I assume most people
are not going for it so I'll take a look
and it's your call so whatever you want
to do is fine you can not like go for
him or if you go for him right you could
just make your assessment my assessment
is usually if it's like zero I'll just
go for it and see what happens
basically sometimes if I happen to check
and I see the all-in title is something
like a hundred well if it's less than
100 I go for it if it's over a hundred I
may skip it but if it looks like an
interesting kind of content then I'll
publish it all right Daniel says you
curious how much it cost for a good
video editor mine's really good nine
bucks an hour I've been given a raise
it's because she's been doing a great
job so that is one of my other skills
that's another thing I'll talk about I
mean I hired I test it out probably like
four or five people and she's really
good and it's all you know geo arbitrage
kind of stuff okay
hiking
you applied for the Japan affiliate
program for Amazon they accepted you
don't know within a short time they used
to send a rejection letter any idea my
site is already registered can you
rephrase your question I'm not sure I
understand are you asking if they're
gonna send you a rejection letter
basically I think you're fine like if
you didn't get a rejection letter then
it's probably fine and I think there's a
question if I speak Spanish I do not
sorry next Peter says why use a VPN for
keyword research is localization only is
it for localization or are there other
reasons okay yeah you would I mean you
would need it for checking the hall in
title Chris said you found some
discrepancies between keywords
everywhere in keyword tags actual paid
tool to an extent you need to take it
with a pinch of salt yep I think that's
true Santiago's on what's up Amin says
is there a noticeable noticeable
difference between Google SEO and being
SEO no clue I basically ignore being all
right cool any other questions on the
topic of localization for your affiliate
links and as far as like the VPN most
people in the the chat if you're located
not in the US you may want to use a VPN
in the US so that you can check the
all-in title from the US location
Spartan says do I think it's possible to
create a successful fitness site with
the kgr regardless of the fact that it's
a competitive niche well it depends on
your goal if can you create a site
that's successful you must define
successful and is it possible I would
say probably most things are probably
possible how long will it take how
successful will it be I've no clue
who knows so I would recommend that you
know just because you use the kgr
doesn't mean you don't link build so if
you do kgr if you do other content if
you do a great job and you do link
building sure definitely for sure all
right we have a near mall that's cool
Bosco is talking about surly IPA
sounds like a good beer I enjoyed a few
it's a nice beer that we can actually
get up here in Montana it's from New
Belgium New Belgium they actually
distributed up here a wide range of
their beers but their triple is great I
love Belgian beers so okay
and buy deals offers from Amazon really
slick name what's up okay and any
questions about the topic of
geo-targeting or localization the other
questions I'm gonna try to put in for
Friday so don't forget on Friday there's
a general QA so your general questions
can be asked there Randall
asks if I'm going to recap no I'm not
going to recap okay I'll recap V&O recap
basically if you have traffic if you
have significant traffic from other
sources outside the US but have an
affiliate program you perhaps should
consider you know checking out the other
programs if you don't have much traffic
or your site it's kind of new and when I
say much traffic if you're only getting
like less than 100 visitors per day
probably don't worry about it we're
talking about like just such a small
amount of money that you shouldn't worry
about it
you should probably spend your time on
higher leverage things like adding more
content getting backlinks stuff like
that Jay says great teardown yesterday
cool cool cool thank you for mentioning
that
and then Randall I'm trying to think you
know that was the main thing there's a
couple free options there's a couple
paid options a lot of people seem to
like AWP that seems to be like one of
the more popular plugins right now and I
think you know it's kept really well up
to date and I'll be talking I've
exchanged some emails with the founder
and creator the developer so I'm hoping
that the improvements that they're gonna
be making he said he had some
interesting plans so I hope that to
speak with him and work with him some on
that yep in tau says this is a great way
to put it
I do geo-targeting on my site but only
for the UK US and Canada based on your
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