Below are two images, one is to show how I have Adsense setup on my website. Adsense covers an entire column to the left of the content because it is believed to be a “hot zone” but look where people are actually clicking. That’s right, they are clicking in a little 200 x 200 pixel box that has a black border on the right of the website!

I tested this for a few hours over the last couple of days and can now safely conclude that consumers looking to buy stuff prefer transparency over trickery.

With this version of aStore you can now:

• Build and maintain multiple aStores under one Associate ID
• Feature up to 54 products in each category
• Create custom categories containing products from multiple Amazon categories
• Create multiple instances of individual Amazon categories
• Control the display order of the products on each page
• Specify products to feature on Category and Subcategory pages
• Populate products to categories using Listmania lists

(from Amazon email notification)

Earning a little revenue from Amazon and Google keeps one motivated and multiple aStores allows you to do so from multiple websites or blogs.

At first it might seem that 10% is much better than 6% but you might be missing an important fact. When people click on an affiliate link and the traffic is driven to Amazon.com they often buy other products. Amazon.com has a vast selection, well setup website and trust in their brand.

Amazon wins hands down, that’s right, after several weeks of using Amazon links on my sites people have bought all kinds of different things not even related to what I was reviewing. People get lost on Amazon.com and this often will end in a sale.

So if you ever have a marketer try to sell you a new affiliate system and they use Amazon’s small 6% per sale as a negative example remember, that 6% is easily 10% or more in other sales made for unrelated traffic.

My sites are small but there is no doubt of Amazon.com’s potential for earning affiliate dollars for larger sites, combine that with Google Adsense and you could do well.

* For those of you linking from your website to your aStore rather than embedding it, we have added the capability to put a link back to your website in the store navigation.

- Use this with extreme caution, if you are looking to rank your aStore it might be smart not to link back until you have established an internet footprint.

* Advanced users can now remove both the header and category navigation when embedding the aStore within existing websites.

- This allows you to flawlessly embed the aStore into an existing site making fit.

* The custom product description length has been extended, allowing you to say more about the products you recommend to your customers.

- This is very good for search engines, new products require unique descriptions or they are seen as duplicate content which is weak for ranking.

* Product detail pages now display a “crossed-out” list price followed by the Amazon.com price.

- Better for sales.

* The page title in the browser now displays the name of the aStore combined with the category name or product name, making aStore more search-engine friendly.

- Another search engine friendly feature indeed.

I have not completely given up on Amazon aStores and now with more search engine friendly features you just might be able to rank for a few things in search engines gaining that important organic search engine traffic.