Participating in affiliate marketing (a type of marketing that gives affiliate members a commission every time the product or service promoted by them is sold) is a good way to earn income if you have a blog or website. The Amazon Affiliate Program called Amazon Associates allows you to earn a commission of 4 percent or more on the price of goods or services every time people buy them through a special link listed on your blog or website. Read this article to find more information on how to make money by joining the Amazon Affiliate Program.
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Part 1 of 3: Create a Website or Blog
Step 1. Make a masterpiece on the internet
The best members of the Amazon Affiliate Program are bloggers or website owners that include links to Amazon. In order to earn big commissions, they create quality content on blogs or websites that attracts the attention of many people. Consider creating the following website:
- Create a free blog using Blogger, WordPress, or another similar website. The only thing it takes to create such a blog is time because you can create one for free. You should spend enough time designing and creating good quality content. Choose a content topic that you like. That way, you can create interesting content and get a lot of readers.
- Make a website. Professional or business website owners can also join the Amazon Affiliate Program. However, if you plan to directly sell certain goods or services on your website, you should not promote Amazon goods that are also sold by you. Otherwise, it could lead readers to buy things through Amazon rather than through your website. If your website sells different products than what Amazon sells, you can promote Amazon's products on your website to make money.
- Create social media accounts for your website or blog. This is a good way to increase your website's ranking in search engines. In addition, social media helps you to stay in touch with your readers and increase the number of links that can be shared. If you want to recommend an item to others, you can share the Amazon link on Facebook, Twitter, or LinkedIn.
Step 2. Create good quality content on a regular basis
You can grab readers' attention by creating high-quality content. Therefore, create content for your blog or website at least once a week.
Step 3. Earn reader loyalty
When you're creating website content, it's best not to overtly promote stuff. People may feel that you are forcing them to buy the advertised items. As a result, they will stop visiting your website. To prevent this from happening, instead of creating articles that outright promote stuff, you should focus your attention on creating good quality content and include links to that content. Apart from that, you can also share your opinion with your readers regarding your list of most liked items or your favorite brands.
The more creative your content, the more items it sells. For example, you could create an article listing the most innovative items or a list of the best nonfiction books. You can include a link that links your website to Amazon products in the article. People will use these links to buy goods or as referrals
Part 2 of 3: Creating an Amazon Associates Account
Step 1. Go to the affiliate-program.amazon.com website
Please read the information contained on the website carefully before creating an account. You'll need to know what products you can promote, how to include links, and how to get paid before creating an account.
The Amazon Affiliates Program provides advertising fees (rewards earned from advertising products on websites) or commissions depending on the type of product being promoted. Rewards from advertising fees may increase if the ads posted on your website generate more than six purchases per month
Step 2. Click the "Join Now for Free" button when you are ready
Step 3. Sign in to your Amazon Associates account using your Amazon username and password
Choose your residential address from the list of addresses displayed on the page or enter your residential address if you have not previously saved it on the Amazon website.
Step 4. Enter information related to the website, such as the number of website visitors and how you make money on the website
You will be asked to enter your entire website that will be used to promote the Amazon link. Verify your identity before proceeding with the registration process.
Step 5. Take a look at the products available at Amazon's Associates Central
Step 6. Choose the product you want to integrate with the blog content
We recommend that you use the " Bestseller " filter to find the best-selling products in any category.
Step 7. Put a link on the website
For link formats, you can use image, text and image formats, or text links. The format you choose depends on how you display links in website content.
Step 8. Use Amazon Associates' SiteStripe (the toolbar at the top of the page) to get links to the products you want to promote
Part 3 of 3: Increasing Amazon Associates Profits
Step 1. Optimize your revenue by listing links regularly
This means that you must creatively attach the product being promoted into the content of the website.
If clicked by a potential buyer, the Amazon Affiliate Program link will be active for 24 hours. Meaning, the link will expire if he doesn't use it within 24 hours. New links mean new opportunities to earn money
Step 2. Include links for various types of Amazon products in the website content regularly
The amount of advertising fees paid by Amazon is calculated based on all purchases made by a person, not only based on the product being advertised.
Keep in mind that you must get people to visit Amazon via the link listed on your website. To earn commissions, people have to buy products through your Amazon link
Step 3. Use Amazon links when promoting items via email or to family members
You can earn a commission every time someone, except you, purchases an item via the Amazon Associates link listed on the website within 24 hours.
Exchange Amazon Associates links with friends and family members. Purchase items through the Amazon Associates links of friends and family members. Thus, they will earn commissions as well. Also, ask for their help to do the same. While this won't be the main way to earn money, it can stabilize the amount of commission you earn when you're new to the Amazon Associates program
Step 4. Add the widget into the website
Amazon Associates has widgets (applications or set of interfaces that allow users to execute certain commands) and online stores (online or online) that can be integrated with website templates. List product recommendations in the sidebar of your website.
Step 5. Advertise products that are worth more than IDR 1,000,000.00 ($100)
The more expensive the product a reader buys, the more commission you can earn. Thus, make sure you recommend products that are expensive and of good quality.
Step 6. Use lists
Almost all online stores have a list of products that are currently popular. Make a list of product recommendations every month or every three months for a new product category. This is very useful for you and your readers.
Step 7. Create seasonal content that includes an Amazon Associates link
People are buying more things as Eid and Christmas get closer. Therefore, recommend products in the month of Ramadan or the week before Thanksgiving to take advantage of the discount days held by Amazon.
If you haven't already scheduled seasonal content and marketing, we recommend that you do so soon. There are many holidays, such as National Online Shopping Day, Valentine's Day, and New Year's, that can result in a large number of purchases. Therefore, make sure the content, product recommendations, and links look attractive and are adapted to the holidays or seasons
Step 8. Optimize your blog or website
Apply SEO (search engine optimization) techniques, such as creating dense keywords, short URLs, and backlinks, to increase the number of website visitors. The more people who visit your website, the more people will click on your Amazon Associates link.
