Amazon Links for Total Newbies
Last night I published my first affiliate post on my website. I had tutorials, advices and online help from many WA members. I had plenty of trouble to do this and learned some lessons the hard way. So I’m writing this to make it easy for a total newbie. I found out that if you have never been an Amazon Affiliate some of the videos and tutorials will not work.
When you join Amazon Associates for the first time you get full access to Amazon but are not as yet a confirmed affiliate. That occurs after the first sale and a review of your website. Your dashboard will not be the same as that of a confirmed affiliate. So you will look for things and they won’t be there.
The way to do it is to go into your Amazon Associates account and press Links and Banners. Then if you want a link, click "create link". Then go to Search and enter the category and product. A bunch of product choices will appear. When you decide which you want Do Not click the product image, click the little orange rectangle that says “get link”.
You’ll be shown a preview of what the link will look like and told to highlight the HTML message. Do that and then go to your website dashboard and decide where you want it shown. Click Edit and make sure to click “Text”.
If you want it displayed after the content, press “enter” on your keyboard to provide space between your content and the link. Then paste the link there and make sure to click “update”. You then click “Visual” and you will see a yellow box. Then click “View Post” and you will see it on your website.
I want to thank everyone at WA for helping me to get this done. I hope this makes the process a lot easier for anyone doing it for the first time.
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Thanks for sharing, Nancy. This will definitely be a great source of information for me. I haven't tried any affiliate as of yet. But I will do so very soon. I feel like it's about time for me to make serious business as the new year unfolds.
Brace yourselves, everyone. The best is yet to come for all WAers!
I love your new avatar!
That is a good decision for the new year. This is a total first for me. And I still have lots to do to get my website easy to navigate and such. But it was an adventure.
Thanks. That's my grandbaby in CA. It reminds me to keep moving on so that I can retire and be with him soon!
This is really a great adventure ~making money while having fun! It's a lot of work but it's worth building especially when you know that you are a problem-solver to someone. I love it!
Thanks Nancy, I'll file that away for future reference when I monetize my site - may/may not use Amazon.
PS. It seems you are not clicking 'Reply' under people's comments, as your responding comment appears above theirs. If that is the case, they will not know that you have replied.
What some people don't realise is that different countries have their own Amazon company and so separate Amazon affiliate scheme.
I use a plug-in called Amazon Affiliate Link Localizer. There's an excellent training on how to use it here. https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/training/using-the-amazon-link-localizer
You're welcome. I'm so new to all this kind of thing that I thought I had better write this as I finally learned something that others like me could benefit from.
Thank you for this info nancykaye, this will prove very valuable for many people in the coming weeks and months.
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Thanks Nancy for updating.