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For me Amazon works better than Google Adsense. Like 6 years back Google AdSense was converting great. We used to get crazy 1$-2$ clicks so often. But now most clicks are below 25c. Advertisers has found better platforms to use than Adword. So not that much competition these days. Publishers earn less because of that.

Amazon is a totally different animal. You need to take a well planned approach when you are going to start a website targeting Amazon. You earn per sale and usually only traffic from specific location converts. So it you use Amazon.com then Traffic from USA is what matters to use at begin. You have to make sure majority of your traffic from there and then you need to make sure it's buyers rather than clickers and viewers. Also you need to convince your traffic to take a look at Amazon sales pages and also push them to buy it right away. So you need a more through planning and a long term approach.