So question Whose making money using this tool ?

If so 100 a day ,200 a day .....

It depends on your niche. I have many niches I have not launched yet which are considerably higher than my "children's toy, games & books" niche. I ship over a 1000 items a month out, but they are lower in cost then if you were pushing plasma screen TVs, etc. I calculate my earnings by so much per day spread across the entire network of sites.

Littletoons,

May I ask.. the 1000 items you ship a month...How many sites are in your network approx? How long did it take you to start seeing sales? Any tips on getting a new site out there?

Thanks!

I have many that are on the drawing board. As far as sites in the network Live and Promoted, there are only 3. LittleToons, JuniorToons, and BiggerToons.com. However I have a total of 66 that I am working on.

And most 900+ items are shipped through LittleToons the oldest and most profitable.

As far as seeing sales. In my estimation, you need to wait 6 months to a full year for a site to really start to get going in my own experience, provided you work on it daily.

Newsgroups, social networking, relevant blog commenting, backlinks such as wikipedia or dmoz, youtube video posting are all nice ways of increasing traffic.

Finally, make sure you all your bases covered customer service wise, shipping, contact, etc. This along with an eye appealing design which shows customers confidence but not too fancy so they don't think you are making money off of them. A good niche helps and good product design, that is the most relevant in the product niche. For example some sites I strip off items below a certain amount and also strip off items without pictures, etc. Don't bog the consumer down with more work to be done. I treat my sites as a portal to helping them find the best and cheapest products for them. Also put up as much value added other content, tips and articles as you can muster. And if you have a blog, write on it weekly or daily, and then point occasionally to your site store from within your blog, hopefully on different domains.

Littletoons,

Wonderful post... thats the kind of info I needed. Just some hope that it is possible to make a buck with this tool and a little insight into how to do it.

Say you finished one of those 60+ on the drawing board... what would you do first thing? Would you submit it to the search engines or avoid that and just work the social networks? What would be the most beneficial to jumpstart the traffic flow on a new AOM site?

Thanks again,
-Matt

I have a whole series of things I do, the least of which I document in a word file. It's different for each type of niche.

1. Use SocialMarker.com to flesh out the most beneficial social sites for your site over a 6 week period. Make posts about the new site, posts about certain special areas like I have song lyrics, and finally make posts especially when new products come out. I haven't posted in months and still have residual traffic.
   
2. Youtube, Facebook, Twitter from such products such as splitweet.com to post new things and happenings on your site. I also have forums + an opt-in newsletter.
   
3. Leverage RSS feeds as you see fit.
   
4. I also post to Google Groups in "relevant" groups when a new site or product line is launched.
   
5. Get on Google & Bing Webmaster tools, Yahoo Site Explorer. Register your sites and provide sitemaps.
   
6. Submit to article directories in frequently but remember to post quality work.
   
7. Fine tune your .htaccess and robots.txt file point them in the right direction, for instance I have separate meta information files for EVERY one of my character lines, making them all different. A knowledge of programming helps.
   
8. Make sure relevant meta and title information is on ALL pages and that all pages are different, it makes your SERPS listings go higher
   
9. Post to relevant blogs, even ones with no follow tags, because after all you are posting for the consumer traffic not necessarily the page rank. Many of my sites do not have much PR at all, however I still get 150-350 orders per week.
   
10. There are places to make free press releases.
    
11. If you find relevant like interested web sites in your niche, then form backlinks. Blogs however will form the most of your backlinks. Mine is interesting because all of my subdomains provide backlinks to my main domain.
    
12. Value added content! I cannot stress give them a reason to come and then give them a reason to stay (Amazon's best prices). And remember affiliate marketing WILL end, so be prepared for it. I have videos, coloring pages, wallpaper background downloads, songs, lyrics, games, information, engaging graphics, also overstock, shopping.com api, amazon, ebay plus clickbank and linkshare products as well. Plus adsense goes in very unassuming areas. Never will you see a flat out non-subtle adsense ad.
    
13. Finally make your site look "good enough to eat", and if you are unable to do it. Pay someone to do it for you.

Good luck, this was all I could think of on the top of my head.

You did an awesome job on the sub-domains I looked at with the value added content like the coloring pages and other stuff that doesn't appear on amazon as far as I can tell. where did you source all that stuff?

I'm pretty impressed that you are ranking so high in the serps for some of those search terms like the Wonder Pets, too. From looking at the site prep stuff you provided in your post, it looks like you are a big believer in onsite optimization and then tons and tons of relevant backlinks. Smart move.

Thanks! I created all of those coloring pages from finding relevant b/w images then adding the appropriate logo to it, and resizing to fit most printers.

Yes the subdomains also give you another leg up while you have the "long tail keywords" actually in the domain helps you as well.

There was a time where I was #1 for Wonder Pets above Amazon, Nickelodeon, and Wikipedia.