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		<title>Monetizing the Nimble Books website via Amazon Associates</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I thought I would share with you the results of an analysis I did of my (historically low) efficiency at monetizing my web site via Amazon Associates.

Google Analytics page views 1/1/2008 - date: 26032
Associates clicks 1303
Associates unit sales 14
 conversion rate 0.0107
 Associates referral revenue $10.04
 revenue/month $2.26
 NB after royalties revenue for referred titles [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I thought I would share with you the results of an analysis I did of my (historically low) efficiency at monetizing my web site via Amazon Associates.</p>
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<li>Google Analytics page views 1/1/2008 - date: 26032</li>
<li>Associates clicks 1303</li>
<li>Associates unit sales 14</li>
<li> conversion rate 0.0107</li>
<li> Associates referral revenue $10.04</li>
<li> revenue/month $2.26</li>
<li> NB after royalties revenue for referred titles 40</li>
<li> Total imputed revenue (referrals + publisher comp)= 50.04</li>
<li> Imputed revenue/month $11.29</li>
<li> imputed $/page view $0.0019</li>
<li> imputed $/1000 page views $1.9222</li>
<li> imputed $/click $0.0384</li>
<li> imputed $/conversion $3.5743</li>
<li> bandwidth used (GB) 56.259</li>
<li> GB/month 12.69</li>
<li> max  GB/month 200</li>
<li> days covered 133</li>
<li> months 4.433</li>
<li> Imputed revenue/GB $0.89</li>
<li> overage charge per GB $1.99</li>
<li> Cost of High Volume Plans per GB $0.19</li>
<li> possible ^ in usage w/o incurring additional bandwidth charge 15.76044129</li>
<li> possible ^ imputed revenue by ^ usage x15 w/o additional BW charge =15 x  imputed rev /month = $177.89 /month</li>
<li> possible ^ imputed revenue by ^ conversion rate x 5 = $889.46</li>
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<p>what all this tells me:</p>
<p>* I could increase the usage of my website by a factor of 15.7  before I hit the bandwidth threshold for my account at Pair<br />
* assuming that revenue increased in linear proportion, and that I could improve the conversion rate, I could increase my Associates &amp; Associates-driven revenue into the several hundreds of dollars per month<br />
* increasing usage by x 15 would be hard work, there are other things I could do that would increase revenue more (i.e. publish more or better books)</p>
<p>My website has always been a bit of a mess because I use it as a combined blog and bookstore.  It would be better to have a single purpose store.  Right now the website is under construction as I experiment with new Amazon Associates widgets.</p>
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