How to Make Money as an Amazon Associate

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We wanted people to stay more focused on our products and other content. We tried this as well. Amazon pulls information from the links and content of your article and offers related or complementary products in an ad like this below. These ads got very poor click rates on our blog, so we ultimately decided not to both with them because they do take away from the aesthetics of your blog and can look spammy.

They look too much like ads and will, again, make your site look spammy, in my opinion. Note that a general disclaimer for affiliates is not sufficient for Amazon. There are also a few big restrictions, such as linking products in emails and PDFs. They must be linked on your blog posts or other public content on your website. If you enjoyed this article on the Amazon affiliate program or have any questions, please leaves them in the comment section below!

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If you fill this in, you will be marked as a spammer. Build An Email List 2. I just got started with my first site on Amazon and will use your info to move forward. This is amazing Chris. Thanks for explaining with great details! To much external link to amazon is not Good for your website rank Google. Hey Syamsu , Thought I would answer your question for you. Subscribed to your email list.

I like this article. Please share how you do it.. OMG Chris , this article gives me a boost. Unfortunately I am unable to understand what niche I should select. I have hobbies like swimming and badminton but the competition is too much. I am also interested in toys as a product but I am very confused if it will work for me or not. I was wondering if you could help me select a niche from the above 3 choices so that I get a push and can begin to make a website to earn money online. I still have a hard time visualizing making this kind of money selling amazon products, because the payouts are so low.

You need to move a tremendous amount of merchandise in order to make decent money. The FBA makes more sense, because the commissions can be so much more. Hey Chris, ok I have an affiliate site with products. Is their a plugin or something to let me know if a product is no longer available. Or is their a plugin that checks links everyday automatically to let me know if their is a problem. Nothing worse than clicking a link to find out the page is no longer available. Is the end of and your article just gave me great amount of value. Hey Chris, 1 question I have although it may be obvious.

Promoting Amazon products as an affiliate — ok I get that part. What if the product is sold on Amazon but not fulfilled by Amazon? Would the affiliate still earn a commission? I am good at what I do, but there is no one more ignorant than an expert outside his field of expertise! Can anyone help me? This first website is the beginning of a fairer system of life for all members. We look after work, income and home.

Any help from anyone any where is much appreciated as we set up a divine civilisation within this crooked world! Just looking for simple, honest people like myself who have skills in other areas from me. Help to build the world anew, starting with yourself and members of WPPN. Chris great article written!! My Amazon Affiliate Website is under development. If yes then how? Hi, A great post with very helpful tips. I would like to integrate amazon into facebook business page.

This will help me out a lot. I am a new author through amazon and my book is also being sold through KDP Select The kindle option worldwide but regardless of my advertising on my Facebook page, which cost money, I do not seem to be getting anywhere. With Amazon Associates, is it totally free and no cost to you or do you pay a fee over a certain amount of time.

Also if you have any tips on how to get a book out there that would be excellent. I plan on doing a book signing at Barnes and Noble in hopes it will raise awareness of my book. Do these methods still work coming out of and into ? Still a great article with good info. I received an email from Amazon stating that they would not longer give commissions on books which also sold on other websites.

I suspect this was a response to their losing a suit involving them trying to control the ebook price market. It would force authors to remove their titles from other sites. But, I received no retraction, and I received commissions in January. Did others feel the crunch in November and December?

What guarantee do we have that we writers will not build something great on Amazon… and have Amazon pull the commission rates right out from under us? A bunch of little purchases increase your commission percentage, which then makes you more money on the big-ticket […]. Hi I have a really goid weebly website I made for my business. Does weebly work for amazkn affiliate? I want to change to weebly. If not, what is a good domain to swap to?

Great information on Amazon affiliate program, but are these posts really 3 years old? Actual age of post would be very helpful. Suppose I chose one products and article will be review or deatils of this products and then review will be at the end of the article or not. Please give me the solution Thanks for your nice article. Hello, I was reading your blog and I am interested in the topic. But before I know if it is possible that within the course you show me where to buy the products that you sell.

I say this, since you post that you are selling more than products, but I would like to know where to buy best precious for sale on amazon. I started using Amazon Affiliate Program. But i am using amazon. So what if my visitors from other countries click on that link?

They purchase the product, on getting redirected to amazon. Is there any way by which I get benefit from users worldwide? I am too new to this. I left a comment because I know what it is like to spend hours or even days writing a great blog to not even have someone leave a simple comment one way or the other.

I was about to quit when I read your article and like one other and found out there was real money to be made. Well good day and thanks for the insights. Hi Chris I was wondering about how much time per day do you spend working your sites? I have a full time job now but am looking to supplement my income on the side for a while until I can do it full time.

Would you say those tips are still valid in ? This is really good post.

Until now, i never try this idea. Do you have any links to your websites so I can get an idea on how you set up your pages etc? This post is still very much relevant, Love it and enjoy reading every part of this article. Am just starting a niches site for amazon. This post is eye opener to me.. Thanks for sharing this information.

Since then i have made an amazon site and are making some money already. Make sure you find a SEO expert when doing this if you are not one, if you dont know SEO you will end up with a site with no visitors. Thank you Chris for your time and info. The funny thing is I ended up buying a book from Amazon as well! I read this post a while ago and I had to reference it in my blog. I find myself stumbling across your site a lot and getting inspiration. So I closed my site and never tried again. I live paycheck to paycheck and would like to add to my income.

I will put your system to the test. Thank you, however for posting such a detailed system. I saw the instructional video where you get to send people through the localised links, but provided you fill in the associate or tracking number for every country, example XX1 for Canada, XX2 for UK, so on and so forth. Can someone please help with step by step process to start with….

I especially liked the idea of a monthly bestseller post which I had not thought of before. I seen the returns taken out. Are these charges coming directly from your pocket. Also does Amazon pay a percentage on each item? How does Amazon pay and how often? I would like to try something like this but have heard so many horror stories I been reluctant to try them.

Amazon pays every 2 weeks and deposits into my business bank account. There are horror stories with any business model.

Gosh I was building a site in my niche, and they ditched me twice from the program, now they say they will never welcome me on board ever again, just as fickle as the google adense program. I mean nothing is really for free as they state it is free, there are just too many hard working websites that have been ditched permanently. I do agree though make sure you have got ypour niche set in concrete first, and that you have all your products, pictures, videos and ebooks complete before signing up.

I wanted to ask you a question. I was wondering… since the money is in the list, how do Ior better, what could I urge users to subscribe to my newsletter on a site, for example, It makes reviews squeezer? I think that a user search squeezer reviews, he does it because he has an immediate need to buy. So, why should subscribe to my newsletter? I hope you understand the meaning of my message!

I am reading this in and still found quite fresh. Thanks for such nice guide. Looking forward for your course. Well done on all counts.

Soon decided against that! I will actually post back with a report Site hasnt even been built yet so give it a few months and will let everyone know how it gets on. Chris, I first heard your name on pat flynns podcast and thought your work is excellent. More particularly your Amazon sales, those are some impressive numbers and conversions. Do you have any tips on how to get more organic traffic to my site?

Of course, people don't make money with amazon affiliate or affiliate marketing: I have started up a website as a reviewer for a specific educational materials publisher. This article has been helpful to me. I am totally new to all of this. Is it best to have only photos of the product I have YouTube reviews on one side and right now affiliate links with pics on the other and not obvious affiliate links? Also if you have an accompanying blog do you do text affiliate links and then also just plain photos with links pointing to Amazon or is it better to have the imbedded iframe style links?

My biggest frustration is how to drive my target to my site and links. I have to do YouTube videos as part of what I told the publisher I would do. I have cards in my YouTube videos to try to steer the traffic to my site where they can look at the offerings in a very organized fashion which really is one of two places on the web that provide this for this publisher. I just want to work smarter instead of harder.

I have had so many people thank me for the videos but it is not converting through the affiliate links. Also posting the reviews on Amazon. They say they are working to resolve it. I just signed up for the Amazon affiliate program and was wondering if people know that you are sharing an affiliate link vs a non-affiliate link when they click on your link.

Depends on if they look at the entire URL string or if you tell them. Thank you so much for this wonderful article. The tips are great. I recently joined Amazon Affiliates on my site. I joined last week of December my site has been around since Hoping to get this higher. And, of course collectively, this should help on the commission rate. Hi Chris, I am at step 2 of your course: Search for new keywords. Instructions Click Search for new keyword and ad group ideas Enter one or more of the following in the boxes that appear: The URL of a page on your website or your entire website.

A category relevant to your product or service. That option to search for new keyword and ad group ideas does not exist. It is telling me to: Decide how much to spend 2. Choose a target audience 3. Set your bid 4. This was a huge help. My astore tracking id was cancelled due to no sales for days.

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Can you tell me how to get rid of my store? I want to do product reviews as you suggested. Thank you so much for this helpful information! Will the links and credit work if someone, say, gets sent to the Amazon Japan store, but then transfers to the UK store and buys something there? Or would I have to guess which country stores the readers would use first, and have several links in my blog to all the various Amazon stores?

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How might I set this up most effectively? We send the traffic to the place that it should go. If the visitor is from Japan they will go to Amazon. Only recently started visiting your site but loving the content you put out there. One question I wondered is:. Amazon specifically states about cloaking links as a no-no etc. Amazon can still see the referring information. What tips would you give a person who is starting from scratch, and how much would you say came out of your own pocket when you first started?

Honestly you just need to narrow down to a niche that you want to focus on and then move forward with something. I spent less than a few hundred bucks when I first got started. Chris is there anyway I can get the information of who bought each of the products I got the commsion from? Amazon shares what products are purchased from your affiliate links from within your Amazon Associates stats.

Really tough to say because the quality of your traffic matters. If you had a product review website the conversion should be higher. I use WordPress for domain hosting. I have an affiliate number but I cannot get links to embed. You say you just link to a product. Is that using your affiliate link, I assume? Yes I just use EasyAzon. Hi my name is Stephen Pastore. I am a 22 year old aspiring entrepreneur. Im gunna try and be as brief as possible.

Could i ever expect to make million in a lump sum for myself after tax not company revenue? I understand i sound just like and ignorant naive money hungry kid that doesnt know his ass from his elbow but if you could help me out with these concerns id appreciate it greatly and I understand completely this is hard question to answer but anything helps. Hi Chris, thanks for this useful piece.

Can you shed some light on how to promote Amazon products on a Facebook fanpage? Hey Chris — great post. Just a question — We have got about 80 stores affiliated to Amazon Associates. As I understand from your article, it appears that the blog site is a foundation for making a successful Amazon Income. What do you think the strategy would be to drive sales? Of course, we have got Social Media Marketing currently in place. I typically do the review approach where I do more product review related content. Hello Chris, So do you create a blog and do you personally have to buy each item you review.

Or do you just create a review that Amazon gives you or is there video that you can use to create some kinda of video? Do you go on and talk about this or not show your face and just do a show your screen and talk about the product. And if you have to buy each product does amazon give you a discount since you are going to be a seller?

What do you recommend for created a blog site and etc to host etc to spend the least amount and get running. I have hardly any capital. Thank you for any help and guidance. If I want to earn from Amazon affiliate program and promote different types of products, not likely I am able to create a lot of websites with different niches to promote different types of products. If I were to opt for those product review sites to review the products, will I be able to include the Amazon product links in the reviews?

Chris, I am glad you have had good fortune with amazon, I think I have chosen the wrong niche, it appears to be very competitive, I have had my site for 4 mo, and have made zero, however, it may not be all bad, I still work on content, and I do get indexing, however, I am at a loss on how to find keywords on ranking content; If I could find this out, then I could do some seo on any LSI keywords. I do agree about having a nice looking website, I paid far much less then you did, and I think I turned out with a site that looks very nice; If visitors do not think you are legit, or if you content looks like trash, then the will bounce before you can blink.

I think once I can find those magic LSI keywords and rank them, then I think things will turn around, as I have also invested quite a bit up until this point. Or do you simply rely on creating high quality content? I use a freight forwarder for handling shipping for physical products, but this blog post is more about Amazon affiliate marketing which is different. I was thinking of some type of residual income and wondering if you think it would work for a Facebook page simply just adding links to Amazon and my maybe even products that could possibly pertain to some of the discussions of the page.

FB organic reach on pages is pretty low compared to groups. The Amazon affiliate program is like a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow. If you can figure out where the rainbow ends you may do well. Thanks for your tips. Am all new here. I read a client testimony and decided to sign up and created my web page. Am yet to decide on what item should be marketed. Amazon Associate called me to enlighten me on the online business. And i got his point clear except for their courses i have to be trained on and then he mentioned three packages: Am not financial stable to take that now but its on my future to do savings.

I havent heard any on mention a training fee here. The associate suggest i use my credit card to pay the training also. Amazon called you to offer you training to help build a website for you? Uhhh never heard of that… Or am I reading this incorrectly? HI whats with the dates on each comment made?

I have amazon affiliation link and have shared the product on my blog as well. Altough I am getting traffics and and lets say average of 20 click each day on amazon affilate product link, no body seems to buy any product: Some of your posts go into insane levels of details, and this one was no exception. Oh, I signed up for the easyAzon affiliate program, by the way. Did it weeks ago. Still waiting for a response. Thanks for sharing the insights. Would you mind throwing some light on not your product itself but the competition your product had prior to you entering.

Indeed, sales and reviews seem to be the mantra for AMZ algo. I tried the Astore and you are right, it was horrible. How do you create a place people can buy products without an Astore? When you used the easyazon plugin for your WordPress site, did you use it to transfer information about the product for your post? No transfer of information.

Create your own unique content then use EasyAzon to put your links in there. Easyazon is an amazing tool for Amazon affiliate marketing. I recommend it to all the newbie in this field. Hi Chris, i am from Indonesia and my country not listed as Amazon affiliate program. Should i have to sign up on Amazon Affiliate program? Or can i just use eazyazon plugin. Are my website can using as regional promote when amazon affiliate available.

Sorry if my english not well because english not my native. You would sign up for the country where you want to generate earnings from e. This is so helpful! I want to become an amazon associate and i am based in both Greece and UK. Could my site promote products for amazon. Am i free to make this choice? Is it affected by the billing address of my card? Use the EasyAzon plugin and you can monetize your traffic from other countries as well. You will need to sign up for a US Amazon Associates account though. On a side note I was trying to view Azon Theme and the link you have in your blog post seems to be a dead link.

Just updated the link thanks for letting me know to fix. Does Amazon report the commissions you make to the IRS? Are these commissions regarded as income? Any money you make from anything online you should report to the IRS. Report any and all income you make. Thanks so much for the great content! Hi Chris Today I just started buying azon authority premium lincense but I m confused , is the Amazon affiliate program reliable to make money at least 3k in a month if I spend every day hours? I saw you guys have more previous experience, so would tell me I will spent money for you.

It depends on the quality of the content you create It depends on the promotion you put into the content It depends on the work that you put in etc. I am a beginner interested in becoming an affiliate, and your information is very enlightening, but can you advise or send me to someone who can educate me on how to get started?

Hey Hugh, what did you have in mind? The blog post primarily serves to educate are you looking for something more in depth e. I have thought of doing one. I just came across this article as I am interested in selling on Amazon. I noticed that the comments were from back in 2o Is this article still relevant for ?

Just finished reading your great post and installed EasyAzon. Hey Dave, you can in our pro version of EasyAzon. Thank you for your useful tips. What you think about using facebook ads to increase conversion? One tip for you try to make Leave a comment section upper the comments.

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Sorry not familiar with their affiliate program but am familiar with selling products that you find on AliExpress though. Do you think its better to have a static page WordPress or just have your blogs on the front page, as is? My bounce rate for the homepage is literally 3, in the past month. They hit that homepage and stay for around 7 minutes which means most are probably reading the static page, but then they just… leave. I also think one issue is how I have the navbar set up. The navbar IS in the top fold not a sidebar , but I had my mom visit it who is not too techy and a little older and it took her a few seconds to find the actual articles lol.

I like a home page design like I have here on this blog because I can send people back to the home page if I want to point them to the blog or podcast content more easily. However, I started another website and I AM making money with that. Two very different niches lol. The one I am making money with will HAVE to be a higher amount eventually, but I am happy to be making money at all because I have tried this whole affiliate thing for years and never made ANY money. I have a question. What kind of regulation do I need to do to have an affiliate website? Sole proprietorship, LLC or non.

Hey, is there like a step by step video on this? My current job is being weird and I need something I can definitely depend on week by week. To give me some ideas. I am running a list site, and on single page I have 30 amazon product links is that ok to use 30 links on a single page? Just make sure that the content is good.

Hey Chris — really good of you to post this insightful and immediately useful article. It is obvious you are a top pro. Am new to the game but learning the ropes and highly respect top guys and their wisdom. Niche Selection Is Crucial 2. Build An Email List 7. Create A Product Comparison Grid Publish A Recurring Deals Post Publish A Monthly Bestseller List Yes there are a lot of people that are making good money out there with Amazon for sure.

Nice summary Chris and very useful for selling Amazon products.

Hey Chris, Great article. Chris, Thanks for the reply! I get excited when the author replies to comments! Great stuff once again. Hey Robert, I completely agree with you. Hey Chris how can I just have you set me up! You make it sound so Incredibly genius and easy. Thanks for the great articles! Hi Chris, I think that your tips are great, and really thanks for sharing. Hi Chris and good day to you. Great reading and info on this page. Thank you for your time. That seems like a big lack of content… Chris.

Hi Chris, Thanks for sharing these awesome tips. After the first few I already knew how I can get more sales on my niche site. Hey Brankica, glad I could help and I wish you the best of luck in growing your Amazon income. Hi Chris, After finding your blog, a couple weeks ago, I finally setup a carousel on one of my blogs. Social Media, Google Panda and Marketing:. This is stuff I talk about in depth in Niche Profit Course but here are a couple quick tips: I think Micro Niche Finder is a little faster at providing results at times.

Hi Chris, Thank you for sharing these great tips. Also, do you use the amzn. Hey Tyler, glad I could help and best of luck on your new site. Is that really true? Anne Sales Coupon Codes:. Hi Chris, Nice post — I came to explore the site after signing up for the free teleseminar tonight with erica. How many different products do you tend to have in your niches? Shaun Ultimate Mailing List:. So far, I have found a keyword with the following criteria: How much commission would a sale get you?

That can help decide if a niche is worth going after. Listed above is the affiliate tier. Just starting with amazon for my video cards site…a lot to do and learn!! Hi Chris, Thanks for the tips above.

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Steve Best Watches For Men. I get some purchases from time to time but not this much I somehow concur with the aStore thing. Steve Plane Simulation Games:. Hi Chris I completed free ebook and 3 wp themes and received an email with the ebook and link to same, however there is no mention or inclusion of the 3 themes could you send them through please. Way to share your actual earnings report. The key is to just target the US affiliates. I even buy stuff from there…. Hey Chris, Honestly if your making that much money online as you say you are, why do you need to charge people for the Niche Profit Course.

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Thank you for the great tips. A couple of questions: How long does it take you to build one amazon site and how many pages is it? Ceejay cheap phones and laptops:. Now, i have spent hours reading through your posts. And am still confused as to how to start. Also i wanted to note from my last comment, i did end up trying to join the amazon affiliate program since i last read this, but could not find any general text links that i could attach to any sites that i own even though its only one or two any suggestions on were i could find these?

Chris, thanks for sharing these fantastic tips. It is always great to hear real success stories and tips from people who have actually done it. I have a couple of questions for you. Do you think Amazon affiliate sites are still profitable? Have you seen a difference in traffic in any of your Amazon affiliate sites? Have they affected your sales? Hi Chris, can you check the coupon for reviewazon? I tried to use but it says invalid.

Check out the plugin I developed instead: Really like your easyazon, and I consider to buy after finding more info about it. Kent Make Extra Money Online:. Chris — In regards to Tip 4, do you ever find your sites being penalized for linking back to Amazon too much or too early in a post? Niche Site Content Strategy: Hi Chris, Thanks for your point for point description of what has worked for you.

At any rate, I am now adding Ebay links as well and looking into even more affiliate programs. Hello Chris, Greetings from India and a customer of yours of Amazon Theme sold as private label rights product a few months ago. Hey Chris, Thanks for an inspiring post as always. Chris, I do much of what you suggest here and all my sites dropped off page 1 Google with the latest emd algorithm change. Your Azon Theme link is no longer working. Thanks for the very informative post. Hey Chris, Thanks for stopping by to comment and I wish you the best with your websites as well.

Nope only get credit if they click your link and buy within 24 hours after clicking. Hi Chris, Thanks for posting these great tips. Thanks for the great content. Thanks again for the information provided. This looks like a totally legit source of income. Smell you later, Clickbank! Hi Chris, Do these methods still work coming out of and into ? Do I need to signup separately with amazon us, uk and other for link localization.

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