What is the Amazon Associates program?

Amazon Associates is one of the first online affiliate marketing programs which was launched in 1996. Amazon afilliate program is probably the most popular affiliate program on the internet. Though Amazon Asociates does not offer the most competitve payouts on the market, they have developed a strong brand and trust with the online shopping community, making them an excellent choice to affiliate yourself with. They do have a tiered system, however, so if you make them a lot of money, your percentage will go up giving you more profits. Another advantage of Amazon affiliate is that anything sold on Amazon can be linked to from your website and you get paid when your visitors buy their products. This means that running whatever website (e.g. about video games, movies, books, etc.) you can make money promoting amazon products with the proper use of this program. It’s free to join and easy to use, because Amazon afiliate gives you a lot of options for promoting their products, including text links, pictures, buttons and a variety of keyword triggered techniques. To add compeling content and enhance your website, you can customize links use aStores and Widgets. Simply browse and select the type of product you'd like to add, then follow instructions to get started.

The basic Amazon affiliate process is the following: go to amazon affiliate login, sign up, get approved, and then get access to the part of Amazon where you can create links and widgets advertising Amazon products. You put those links and widgets on your website. If your visitor clicks one links or widgets on your website, he/she will be taken to the Amazon site through your referral link. This creates a 24 hour window. If within that window the customer buys an item, you will receive a 4% referral fee. That means that if someone purchase a $100 item, you'll be credited with $4. Once a purchase is made, the 24 hour window closes. If the customer adds an item to their shopping cart, but doesn't buy it, you'll still receive the referral fee once they buy it, as long as it happens within 90 days. If the customer goes through your link to Amazon, leaves, and then clicks on someone else's referral link, your 24 hour window will close.

You can earn a up to 8,5% percentage referral fee if you refer lots of customers to Amazon. There are also other products you can earn even higher percentages on. Right now referring Kindle products (the Kindle is Amazon's new $399 ebook reader) will earn you 10%. Amazonmp3's will get you 20%

Also on Amazon Associates you can find one feature that is very rare in affiliate programs. It is the ability to be paid for everything your customers buy. You can refer people to Amazon for a definite product, but they buy another instead. You also will be paid for this. In other words, when using Amazon Associates your goal is simply to get people to Amazon, and they will do the rest of the work.

Now, let me sum up all the advantages of becoming an amazon affiliates

Advantages of Amazon Associates:

• Amazon is a trusted and well known brand – It is very difficulty to find someone who does not know what is Amazon. Maybe you haven’t buy anything there, but believe me or not many of your friends do, and when you ask them whether it is worth to buy on Amazon, the answer will be definitely ‘yes’. It started over 13 years ago as the book seller website. It was the first place to go shopping if you need some books. Now Amazon has almost anything at moderate prices, but there are still few people who knows how to make money with amazon marketplace.

• Big range of products. Amazon has millions of products. Now you can buy almost anything on Amazon starting from books to tractors. Such amount of various products give an opportunity to every person with a website to make money with amazon affiliate program.

• Make money with amazon affiliate. Commissions

Total Items Shipped	Referral Fee Rate CE Products	Referral Fee Rate Kindle Products	Referral Fee Rate General Products
1 - 6	4%	10%	4.0%
7 - 30	4%	10%	6.0%
31 - 110	4%	10%	6.5%
110 - 320	4%	10%	6.5%
321 - 630	4%	10%	7.0%
631 - 1570	4%	10%	7.5%
1570 - 3130	4%	10%	8.0%
> 3130	4%	10%	8.5%

• People buy more than one item - the great thing about Amazon is that you don’t just earn a commission on the product that you promote on your website, but anything that they buy once they’re at Amazon. Of course people would buy the thing you promote on your website but they would buy much more related items and even more non-related items. You earn a commission on anything that a person buys within 24 hours of you sending them to Amazon.

• Simple integration - There are more and more plugins and tools that have Amazon Affiliate integration built into them to help you easily place links on your website.

• The holiday time is a boom - it’s not a secret, that during the holiday time people buy a lot more. A big part of all purchases is gift to friends and relatives. And what is the most popular and trusted internet store? Of course Amazon. If you’re an Amazon affiliate be prepared for the big income.

How to make money on amazon

1. You should have a very niche website. Forget about making money blogs, no one needs to buy anything. Think of basic, daily needs instead.
2. Find out your best and most popular pages if you already have some aged blogs with a lot of posts.
3. Target your traffic for USA traffic only.
4. Promote your blogs actively. You can use various methods(via social bookmarking, blog directories, whatever)
5. Open an aStore, find interesting ads options as Amazon has a lot of different widgets and styles.
6. Identify what products surfers are looking for on those popular pages and insert that product on just that page. Eg. you have a blog about pets and your highest traffic and most popular page is about cat urine odour. So, get one product for removal of cat urine odour and put it high on your post.
7. Explore all the fun widgets from Amazon Associates like those carousel widget, video and etc. but do not clutter your blog with too many ads on the same page.
8. Be creative and know what your surfers are looking for. I now some perverts come to my blog for some sexy eye candies. I have none to offer so I pasted one sexy looking ad there and that got them running over. Hopefully, they find something they like on Amazon, make a purchase and I earn from there.

Please read the terms carefully as certain Amazon ads that mimic Google Adsense are not permissible if you are already running Adsense.

Conclusion

I do not know whether Amazone Affiliate Program is the right choice and would you really make money on amazon. But the best way to find out is to sign up and just try. This is absolutely for free and will not take much time. Think about the most appropriate website or blog with an average traffic to put the affiliate program on. Then just wait and see. Blogs with a strong product focus can do quite well if links to Amazon are well integrated into posts. I would advise moderation in using the program - don’t place them in every post you write unless they are relevant. Links placed in genuinely helpful reviews do better than links and banners in sidebars.