Make Money As An Amazon Affiliate

hur575

Amazon is one of the most trusted brands on the Internet for online shopping. Amazon is also one of the first to offer an affiliate marketing program. They saw the value of creating opportunities for people to work from home promoting Amazon products. You can build a business on that trust and make money as an Amazon affiliate.

What Do You Need?

Before you sign up as an Amazon affiliate, you need some sort of platform to promote products. The most common way to promote any affiliate products is through websites and blogs. Although there are many free blog sites such as Weebly and Google’s Blogger, a paid blog or website looks more professional and will earn more trust. You also need to set up a Paypal account so that your commissions can be sent to you.

Getting Started

Becoming an Amazon affiliate is a matter of going to their site and signing up. Amazon calls their affiliate program “Amazon Associates”, and the sign up link is on the bottom of their page. Once you go through the sign up process you are given an associates identification. Be sure to read through all of their site to fully understand how to place your unique identification on your links so that you get credit for sales and get paid.

Promoting

When choosing products to promote as an Amazon affiliate, look for products that interest you. One of the best methods of promoting a product is by writing reviews or articles about the product. Remember that as an affiliate marketer, you are selling a product to a consumer without them seeing the product first hand. You must create a reason for them to purchase the product. Amazon has many tools within the affiliate center to help you promote products. The tools they have include product links, banners and even an opportunity to build a web store to place on your site.

Earning Potential

As an Amazon affiliate, your earning potential is unlimited. Unlike promoting a single product or e-book, you have an opportunity to earn a commission on any item a customer purchases at Amazon through your unique link. For example, let’s say that you have a web site or blog about cooking. You place a few links to recipe books on your site. A reader at your site clicks on one of those links and they get taken to Amazon through your unique link. The customer buys the book, but they also may purchase cooking equipment or some other item within Amazon. Instead of just getting a commission on the book sale, you get a commission on the entire sale.

Amazon is among the best in affiliate marketing programs, and is a viable option for creating a good income. You can see just how quickly you can become an Amazon affiliate and make money at home promoting Amazon products. Go to Amazon and check out the affiliate program for yourself.

red_devil

ive got some links on our website but havent made much from it! Hardly anything tbh.

hur575

What is your website about? do you also have adsense? I really do not bother with adsense so I added amazon have not been long with it yet. I make money from clickbank, something else I will share here.

red_devil

no to adsense.

domestic_goddess

I have a blog that receives approx 6000 page views a month and I had the Amazon Widget on my site for about two months - I didn't make a penny.

I also didn't do well with Google Adsense and ended up taking it off as I don't like the look of it on a website.

I now do sponsored posts every now and again to earn a bit extra and I often get requests from people wanting to place adverts on my blog but I'm quite choosy so I don't make as much as I possibly could

NigeWick

hur575 wrote: »

Amazon is among the best in affiliate marketing programs, and is a viable option for creating a good income.

What percentage do they pay the affiliate when somebody buys something from them?

geordie_joe

NigeWick wrote: »

What percentage do they pay the affiliate when somebody buys something from them?

I believe it's 5%, rising to 5.5% if you sell more than 20 items in any one month.

If the sale is via their market place you only get5% of amazon's commission, not 5% of the sale price.

NigeWick

geordie_joe wrote: »

I believe it's 5%, rising to 5.5% if you sell more than 20 items in any one month.

If the sale is via their market place you only get5% of amazon's commission, not 5% of the sale price.

Thanks Joe.

geordie_joe

I wasn't quite right, here is "chapter and verse" straight from the horse's mouth.

https://affiliate-program.amazon.co.uk/gp/associates/join/compensation.html

geordie_joe

john_c wrote: »

hmm it does say there that you receive commission for third party sales so not sure where I read that you don't.

It also says you get commission on the full price from third parties, so I'm not sure where I read you only got commission on Amazons commission.

Maybe I was getting mixed up with ebay.

JulieElvisFan

I tend to agree with those who say Amazon does not really pay. It used to. I first put amazon ads on my site about 3 years ago, and used tradedoubler too and they used to earn about £80 a month, but now they are hardly worth it.
I get more money from Google Adsense, which is crazy as they are hardly targetted ads and I used to pick my Amazon products really carefully.