How Austin Tuwiner Negotiates a Higher Commission Rate on Amazon

Austin is a marketer who dropped out of college at 19 to pursue online business. He wanted to focus on his niche site in the crypto space. He had bought the domain, which had many great backlinks, in a private deal, and grew it to an estimated 150K traffic per month (Ahrefs).

He has since sold this site and is now working on another in the scuba diving niche. He is also bootstrapping an affiliate marketing SaaS tool called Afflytics, which is perhaps his main focus right now.

Jake and Austin cover a lot of ground in this podcast, but the theme throughout is affiliate marketing! There are some excellent tips and strategies on how you can grow your niche site and increase your earnings – even with Amazon Associates!

Austin shares how he sold his crypto site, Bit Premier, to his brother who also runs a large site on cryptocurrency. His brother 301 redirected Bit Premier to his site.

In the interview, you can hear about:

-Crypto exchange, wallet, and mining affiliate programs
-Recurring and lifetime commission affiliate programs
-Being hit by Google updates despite having a ‘white hat’ approach
-Traffic and earnings volatility that matched crypto volatility
-Why he ultimately sold the site

At first, Austin wrote all of the content himself for his crypto site because he was genuinely interested in the niche. However, towards the end, he found other experts to write for him.

The same thing goes for his Scuba site, Scuba Otter. Austin shares how he finds topic experts to write for his niche sites, and why he uses them over generic content writers.

The reader can tell if a writer knows what they’re talking about. They’re mentioning things in their content that you’re not going to find elsewhere. That’s what allowed Scuba Otter to take off: having content written by those who love what they’re writing about.

He does little to no link building for his sites, but he shares a great tactic on how to get links from affiliate product sites (you’ll have to watch for the details).

Other fun discussions in the interview include:

-A ‘common sense’ approach to keyword research – no tool required!
-How he built online calculators that are great for links and traffic
-The types of posts which get the most traffic on his site
-How he experimented with display ads
-The Scuba Otter traffic explosion in Jan 2021

Jake and Austin spend a decent amount of time talking about how to increase your affiliate commissions by asking for a raise! Austin has a great tip, for which he credits Mushfiq Sarker, on how to get a higher commission rate for the products you sell on Amazon.

I won’t share it here, because I want you to hear it straight from horse’s mouth, but Austin states it’s the main way he’s been able to greatly increase his affiliate earnings.

The last major topic of discussion is Austin’s SaaS tool, Afflytics.

This tool links up with all of your affiliate programs (Amazon, Shareasale, CJ Affiliate, for example) and brings together the earnings data into one dashboard. It’s a helpful way to save time each day by not having to log into each dashboard separately.

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