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Re:Ask HN: In theory, how would you monetize HN? by slackerIII on Wednesday December 15, 2010 @01:00PM (#2009046)
Does anyone really make much money doing the amazon affiliate thing? I'm genuinely curious -- anyone have any numbers they can share?
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Re:Ask HN: In theory, how would you monetize HN? by zacharycohn on Wednesday December 15, 2010 @05:53PM (#2010187)
You definitely can. On average, you make around 6% on ANYTHING someone who clicks through puts in their shopping cart that session.

A friend of mine linked to a downloadable part of the tron soundtrack (a dollar or so a song). Someone bought the Adobe Creative Suite. My friend made $300 that day.

On a less "blind luck" side of the fence... if you have a blog with a few thousand hits per month, and you can just reference a product on Amazon on a few posts that month, you can get a pretty solid number of people clicking through.

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