Affiliate marketing is a useful way to make money if you have a blog or website. The Amazon affiliate program, called Amazon Associates, allows you to earn at least 4% commission on purchases made from special links on your blog or website. Read on to find out how.
Steps
Part 1 of 3: Open a Blog or Website
Step 1. Start an online business
The best Amazon affiliates are bloggers or website operators who add links to Amazon in their site's quality content. Consider starting one of the following types of online businesses:
- Start a free blog using Blogger, WordPress or a similar platform. Since opening blogs of this type is totally free, the only investment will be the time you will have to dedicate to curating the design and writing the content. Pick something you are passionate about so you can add quality and interesting content and build a good readership.
- Build a website. Commercial or professional websites can use affiliate programs alike. However, they should ideally be used by people who do not sell similar products directly from their site, since the Amazon marketplace can take away a lot of customers and decrease the turnover. If you have a website promoting different products, a club, a non-profit association or a service, then you can recommend quality products on your site and earn money.
- Create social media accounts for your blog or site. It's a great way to improve your search engine rankings, stay in touch with your readers, and increase the number of links you share. You can post Amazon links on Facebook, Twitter, or LinkedIn when you want to recommend something in particular.
Step 2. Publish quality content consistently
You will earn readers from the value of your content, so post on your blog / site at least once a week.
Step 3. Earn reader loyalty
People who think they are receiving simple advertisements are unlikely to return to your site. Include affiliate links like recommendations, top picks, and favorite sellers, rather than obvious promotions to earn money from readers.
The more fun you enjoy posting the links, the more likely you are to get successful sales. For example, you could blog about the year's most innovative products or the best non-fiction books of the season. You can include links to Amazon products, and people will use them as a reference and a way to buy
Part 2 of 3: Register with Amazon Associates
Step 1. Go to
Read all the information carefully before registering. You will need to understand which products are eligible, how to post links and how to get paid before opening an account.
Amazon Affiliates pays commissions or advertising fees which vary depending on the type of product. Your advertising shares can also increase after you start redirecting more than 6 purchases per month
Step 2. Click on the "Join Free Now" button when you are ready to get started
Step 3. Log in using your Amazon username and password
Select the official payment address from a list or enter it manually.
Step 4. Complete the information regarding your site, web traffic and online monetization
You will be asked to enter all the sites on which you will post Amazon links. Please verify your identity before continuing.
Step 5. Start searching through the various products in Amazon's Associates Central
Step 6. Choose some products to integrate into your blog posts
It is a good idea to use the "Bestseller" filter to find the products that sell the most in each category.
Step 7. Publish the link on your website
You can choose to post an image, an image with text, or a text-only link, depending on how you want it to appear.
Step 8. Use the Amazon Associates site bar, the toolbar at the top of the page to save the links of the products you want to publish
Part 3 of 3: Increase Profits with Amazon Associates
Step 1. Optimize your earnings by posting links regularly
This means you should look for creative ways to incorporate product recommendations into your blog posts while making it clear to the reader that you are offering them industry expertise on the site's topic.
The links of the Amazon affiliate program, once clicked by the potential buyer, remain active for 24 hours. Which means that at the end of that period they will expire for that particular user. New links mean new opportunities to earn
Step 2. Build links to various types of products over time
Amazon pays you an advertising fee based on the total purchases that users make, not simply the product you advertise.
The important thing is to get people to come to Amazon using those links, so that they can make all the purchases they want and have been waiting for through your referral link
Step 3. Use your referral link when emailing information to friends or family
You can receive commissions on anyone's purchases (except yours) if your referral link is used within 24 hours.
Exchange Amazon Associates referral links with friends or family. Make your purchases using their links, so that they can make the relative profits and ask them to do the same with yours. While probably not the primary way you will make money, it can improve your commission structure over time
Step 4. Add widgets to your site
Amazon Associates offers widgets and online stores that you can add to your site template. List various recommended products in your toolbar.
Step 5. Advertise products over $ 100
The more expensive the products your readers buy, the higher the commission you will earn, so be sure to recommend high-value products.
Step 6. Use the lists
Most online stores keep lists of the most popular products. Make your own recommendation lists every month or quarter on a new topic, because they are valuable to you and your readers.
Step 7. Publish Seasonal Content with Amazon Associate Links
People shop more around Christmas, so post recommended products before Christmas Eve to take advantage of sales that Amazon will make anyway.
If you haven't yet started creating a seasonal calendar for your blog posts and related advertising marketplace, get started now. It is full of holidays such as Easter, Christmas, New Year, August 15th, Valentine's Day, Father's Day, Mother's Day, etc. that can generate more sales and more profits if the advice and links are timely and interesting
Step 8. Optimize your blog or website
Follow SEO (search engine optimization) practices such as keyword density, short URLs, and link exchanging to increase web traffic to your site. The more people read, the more clicks you will get to your Amazon Associates links.
