Amazon affiliate program is a hype free way to really make money straight to your bank account without hurdles. There two ways to make money from Amazon associate programme; either as a publisher (selling your personal products like books, software and physical goods) or as an affiliate (promoting peoples products for commission). However for the purpose of this write up, let us concentrate on how to make money as an affiliate without owning your product. That is by promoting other people’s products.
These are steps you will need to take in order to set up your Amazon associate links or program:
Decide on a topic you want to promote or review: The easiest way to make money out of this is to start a product review and recommendation. So it is important that you pick a topic you are passionate and knowledgeable about. This is because if you can’t stay passionate about your chosen topic, then it will soon show that you know little or nothing about your chosen topic and such your reviews are not comprehensive. What i advise is that you narrow your niche to be distinctive enough.
Choose your keyword rich domain name: It is important that you choose a domain that is keyword rich and not a clever one, you will need to focus on hoe people will find your site in the search engines. For example music domain BandsFromLondon.com, Non-Stop-Hip-Hop.com. Books Domain ClassicInvestmentBooks.com. All these will make your site ranking in search engines and SEO perform well in the internet.
You need some “small linking” know how: It is important that you know some basic knowledge of linking. You should be able to know a little bit of inserting copied html codes from Amazon.com to your blog or website. You have to do this to keep your cost down and still get what you want. Even if the site is basically laid out for you. You are going to need to know how to insert images, create hyperlinks and do some basic formatting. What i will advice here is that you remove that “I can’t do it attitude” and settle to do it! Get over your anxiety you have about this, just it.
Installing a free blob: yes i know you have heard of blogs and blog will give your site all the structures you need plus make it easy for you to easily and quickly post new contents. I use blogger because it is an open source software, free and easy to install or create and very powerful too. You can check “creating a blog using blogger” to see how to create your free blog.
Make your blog unique: one of the greatest things about blogger is that it has a variety of templates available to it. You can completely change the look and feel of your blog at any time. Templates or themes are used in designing blogs to give it all the beauty and appeal it should have. There are lots of blog themes you can get for free online. You just have to do a search on Google for free themes.
Sign up as an Amazon associate: once you have done all the above simply visit any of the following and sign up for any of the following. It is easy and free. Your site should already have at least all the basic set up done, even if you don’t have any content yet. Once you are approved, you are on your way to reaping from this affiliate program.
Build your first link: Go to Amazon and log in with your associate account. Find the product you want to review and use the widget or banner link ads to generate html codes in minutes, for a particular product or products you want to promote, log into your blog dashboard and paste it as html code or add it to your blog widget. Once you preview your blog, your ads will show immediately. You can also use the aStore Adlink type to build your website if you are using a website software such as http://www.vodahost.com/partner/idevaffiliate.php?id=15849
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Build out your site and blog your review: Before you promote your site, you may want to have some substantial content there. Write several product reviews, have at least two in every category you’ve created. You may also want make categories for articles news and commentary about your topic. The more content your site has, the better. The great thing is that while you are writing all these, the search engines are getting notified automatically.
Promote your site: The best free way is to communicate with other bloggers, select any one that is related to your niche and that appeals to you and start posting comments while you leave your back links read my post about promoting your site and traffic. The idea is to use Google and type niche forum and you are able to add your signature to your forum profile. To use paid advertising, you will have to sign up with Google Adword, craiglist and usfreeads.
My advice is that you should promote what you think is related to your niche or what you feel in your opinion is worthwhile such as music and software’s instead of books and other products, this is so because you can listen to the clips of the entire album and get a good feel for the music without buying it but this will appeal more to the person who will buy immediately or come back later to buy. However you can do a short review about the music after listening to it. Digital camera and laptops affiliate reviews have proven to be one of the lucrative niches.
http://affiliate-program.amazon.com/gp/associates/network/build-links/individual/main.html
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