Affiliate marketing is
a useful way to earn extra income if you have a blog or website. The Amazon
affiliate program, called Amazon Associates, allows you to earn 4 percent or
more on purchases made using a special link on your blog or website. Read more
to find out how to make money with the Amazon Affiliate Program.
Begin an online effort. The best Amazon Affiliates are bloggers or websites
that add links to Amazon along with quality content on their own site. Consider
starting one of the following online sites:
- Start a free online blog using Blogger, WordPress or a similar site. Since you start these blogs for free, the cost is only the time you spend designing and adding content. Choose something on which you are passionate so that you can add interesting content and develop followers.
- Set up a website. Professional or business websites can also use the Affiliate program. However, they are best used with people who do not sell similar products on their website, since Amazon's marketplace can drive business away. If you have a website promoting different products, a club, a non-profit or a service, then you can recommend quality products on your site and make money doing it.
- Set up social media accounts for your blog or site. This is a great way to improve search engine ranking, stay in touch with your readers and increase the amount of links that you share. You can post Amazon links on Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn when you want to make a recommendation.
Affiliate Program Amazon
- Go to affiliate-program.amazon.com. Read through the information carefully before signing up. You should understand what products are eligible, how to post and how to get paid before starting an account.
- Amazon Affiliates rewards advertising fees, or commissions, that vary depending upon the type of product. Your advertising fees can also increase after you start to refer more than 6 purchases every month.
- Fill out the information about your website, web traffic and online monetization. You will be asked to enter all of the sites you will use to post Amazon links. Verify your identity before continuing.
- Start looking through products on Amazon's Associates Central.
- Choose a few products to integrate into your blog posts. It is a good idea to use the "Bestseller" filter to find the bestselling products in any category.
- Post the link inside your website. You can choose to post an image, an image and text or a text link, depending upon how you want it to look.
- Use the Amazon Associates site stripe, the toolbar at the top of the page, to capture links for products you want to post.
- Optimize your blog or website. Adopt search engine optimization practices, such as keyword density, short URLs, and backlinks to increase web traffic to your site. The more people who read, the more clicks you will have on your Amazon Associates links
