{"id":6988,"date":"2010-12-29T07:00:35","date_gmt":"2010-12-29T13:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=6988"},"modified":"2010-12-28T22:33:22","modified_gmt":"2010-12-29T04:33:22","slug":"amazon-com-top-sellers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/amazon-com-top-sellers\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon.com top sellers"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6995\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6995\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B002Y27P3M?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=malesurvival&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B002Y27P3M\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-content\/uploads\/amazon-500x300.jpg\" alt=\"Amazon.com\" title=\"Amazon.com\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-large wp-image-6995\" srcset=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-content\/uploads\/amazon-500x300.jpg 500w, http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-content\/uploads\/amazon-300x180.jpg 300w, http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-content\/uploads\/amazon.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6995\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amazon.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I always have fun looking at stats for my various websites.<\/p>\n<p>The other day, after receiving another gift card from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&#038;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2F%3Fie%3DUTF8%26ref_%3Dgno_prmlogo&#038;tag=malesurvival&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957\">Amazon<\/a> Associates (I get a small percentage from every item ordered through one of my websites), I thought I&#8217;d check into what people are buying via my websites\/<a href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/malesurvival\">Amazon store<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the items have only been purchased once but a few have risen to the top as &#8220;best sellers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1442174781?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=malesurvival&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=1442174781\">St. Peter&#8217;s Brewery<\/a> &#8211; My novel &#8212; so no <em>real<\/em> surprise there.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0664232175?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=malesurvival&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=0664232175\">We Get to Carry Each Other: The Gospel according to U2<\/a> &#8211; A great book by Greg Garrett. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.somethingbeautifulpodcast.com\/podcast\/greg-garrett-2-28\/\">Listen to my interview with him about the book.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0061853984?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=malesurvival&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=0061853984\">A New Kind of Christianity: Ten Questions That Are Transforming the Faith<\/a> &#8211; Brian McLaren&#8217;s latest book. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/a-new-kind-of-christianity\/\">Read some of my thoughts about the book<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1449556825?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=malesurvival&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=1449556825\">The Simple Guide to a Minimalist Life<\/a> &#8211; This one&#8217;s interesting because it&#8217;s someone else other than Leo Babauta who&#8217;s put this book together and is selling it via CreateSpace since Leo has an uncopyright license on all his e-books. I had this advertised on the front page of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.welivesimply.info\">We Live Simply<\/a> before I realized this. I now only recommend <a href=\"https:\/\/www.e-junkie.com\/ecom\/gb.php?ii=329069&#038;c=ib&#038;aff=33760&#038;cl=10747\">Leo&#8217;s original e-book<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B002S34S82?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=malesurvival&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=B002S34S82\">The 99 Most Essential Christmas Masterpieces<\/a> &#8211; This is a new one for this holiday season. With 99 tracks for only $1.99 it&#8217;s hard to pass up.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And in case you&#8217;re wondering &#8212; Amazon is actually not my #1 way of bringing in a little extra cash from my blogs. Right now it&#8217;s affiliate ads for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.e-junkie.com\/ecom\/gb.php?ii=329069&#038;c=ib&#038;aff=33760&#038;cl=10747\">Leo Babauta&#8217;s<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.e-junkie.com\/ecom\/gb.php?cl=78094&#038;c=ib&#038;aff=33760\">Joshua Becker&#8217;s<\/a> e-books. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been averaging $15 or so each month recommending their two books (which I do highly recommend), where as Amazon typically only brings in a couple extra dollars a month.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Do you use Amazon Associate ads\/links on your blog?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>What are your top sellers?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ever been surprised by something someone purchased through your links?<\/strong> (Darren Rowse actually had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.problogger.net\/archives\/2010\/12\/21\/11-wacky-things-bought-via-my-amazon-affiliate-links-in-2010\/\">a fun post about this last week<\/a> &#8212; he beat me to publication &#8212; doh!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I always have fun looking at stats for my various websites. The other day, after receiving another gift card from Amazon Associates (I get a small percentage from every item ordered through one of my websites), I thought I&#8217;d check into what people are buying via my websites\/Amazon store. Most of the items have only &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/amazon-com-top-sellers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Amazon.com top sellers<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[547,3934,1510,1408,3935,3066],"class_list":["post-6988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-techno","tag-advertising","tag-affiliates","tag-amazon","tag-blogging","tag-joshua-becker","tag-leo-babauta"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-1OI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}