A Quick Introduction
Amazon has to have my all time favorite affiliate program. The company is just so widely known and trusted that commissions come pouring in with little effort. It's a household name that everyone knows and uses and they're consistently one of my top earners. I usually pull about a 15-20% conversion rate on traffic I send to Amazon.Amazon does nearly 35 billion dollars in revenue each year. I feel like writing that out.
$35,000,000,000.00
Per year!
The affiliate program is often overlooked because you start out at earning a 4% commission (you can earn up to 8.5%!) and some people may think that 4% is "not worth their time." Quick math: 4% of 35 billion is still 1.4 BILLION dollars. You'd be foolish to pass up the opportunity.
I've been partnered with Amazon for two years now and I've compiled my top ten best tips to help you improve your earnings.
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Sorayacge
Premium
Hiya! Thanks for the great training. Do you know if there's any reason why we shouldn't add products from all our amazon accounts in different countries? I'm in the process of building out a new affiliate site and I like products from USA, UK & Spain. Is it counter-productive to add them all? :)
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DianeScorpio
Premium
Hi - this post is from 2013, so some of the content may be out of date.
If you want to add products from different countries, you have to join the relevant Amazon Affiliate for each country. You can then make use of Amazon's own OneLink tool, which sends people to their correct country.
The downside of this is that you have to meet Amazon's target of 3 sales in 180 days for each country you sign up with.
If you want to add products from different countries, you have to join the relevant Amazon Affiliate for each country. You can then make use of Amazon's own OneLink tool, which sends people to their correct country.
The downside of this is that you have to meet Amazon's target of 3 sales in 180 days for each country you sign up with.
marklk
Premium
Informative for sure but leaves me at a loss. I do not understand this " review" thing. How do you review products? Are you actually reviewing something you used or are you speaking of simply placing content off of Amazon ?
Is this blog the main part of the affiliate marketing or is there a way to do this with a normal website that sells product with no blogging ?
Is this blog the main part of the affiliate marketing or is there a way to do this with a normal website that sells product with no blogging ?
Thanks for the great tips! I'm curious for a further explanation on bonus tip #3, I was brainstorming that researching what sells the best on Amazon could lead to a blog with higher conversion ratios (since the items are already selling well on Amazon). All while keeping it within a certain niche.
livethelife1
Premium
I just started a new blog where I was trying to use products from Amazon. But because my blog is new and not enough content (I only have 3 articles so far) Amazon rejected my application. although the first day, I had already made some money. Pity, I guess I'll keep writing and see if they'll accept me later
Labman
Premium Plus
Once you have some content on your site and some traffic coming in, they will approve you.
Hari S Nair
Premium
I have been a bit confused with amazon lately Steve, so I would highly appreciate if you could help me with this.
See, my earning depends on the affiliate programs entirely and when it comes to amazon I only can direct traffic by referring books, I hardly earn any money with that because commissions for books are the lowest. I still want to do it, but I am a bit unwilling to add too many affiliate links to my site.
See, my earning depends on the affiliate programs entirely and when it comes to amazon I only can direct traffic by referring books, I hardly earn any money with that because commissions for books are the lowest. I still want to do it, but I am a bit unwilling to add too many affiliate links to my site.
bluerose811
Premium
That was very informative. I 'm not sure how to ask this question, but how does it work if there's http://amazon.ca and http://amazon.com. I'm in Canada, so how would I sign up for the affiliate program with amazon (.com or .ca)? Let's say I put an ad for a juicer and someone from USA happens to go on my page and click on the link. Will they want to get out of there (.ca) to go on http://amazon.com instead, possibly losing my commission?
upsgirl
Premium
Amazon is the same everywhere.
I've spoken with Amazon and they checked my links...you can go either way. You will not lose sales.
I've spoken with Amazon and they checked my links...you can go either way. You will not lose sales.
tbudinski
Premium
You have to sign up with both sites and get affiliate id's from both and then use a plugin (or code yourself but I don't know how) so that when they click on your link they will be directed to the appropriate country's store. I would like to know how to do this manually myself actually instead of relying on a plug in.
upsgirl
Premium
Yes, the Plug-In is not required. There are different types of links. I will share one link and if you need more help, just ask. Amazon Links| Adding and Editing Your Amazon Links
