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Amazon Affiliate Marketing Guide For Beginners

A GUIDE TO AMAZON AFFILIATE MARKETING FOR BEGINNERS min

What is Amazon Affiliate Marketing Program?

Amazon affiliate programs, also known as “Amazon Associates” is an affiliate marketing program, it can be an easy way to monetize your website or blog. Just sign up, get instant approval, and place Amazon affiliate links on your site. When someone buys from Amazon through one of your links, you get a commission.

Amazon Associate is free for website owners and bloggers. They advertise Amazon.com products. When users click on links and buy products from Amazon, they receive a referral fee.

Types of Affiliate Marketing

Affiliate Marketing has three types:

Pay-per-sale:

In this type of affiliate marketing, the wholesaler pays an amount to the affiliate when the affiliate sends a customer to the wholesaler who makes a purchase. Some wholesalers pay the affiliate a fixed rate amount per sale and some wholesalers pay a percentage of the sale like Amazon.

Pay-per-click:

In this type of affiliate marketing, affiliates are paid based on how many visitors reach the merchant site through the affiliate link, and affiliates are paid regardless of whether visitors make a purchase or not.

Pay-per-lead:

In this type of affiliate marketing, affiliates are paid based on how many visitors reach the wholesaler’s site and sign up as leads. Or they only fill out the required information on the website.

How to Become An Amazon Affiliate

Let’s discuss some easy steps to become an Amazon Affiliate. It will help us to understand Amazon affiliate marketing techniques

Create Your Website & Blog

To be an Amazon Associate, you should have an active website, blog, app, or YouTube channel. This is also helpful if you have already populated this site with content, so it looks functional and real for both the user and Amazon.

Go to the Amazon Associates Homepage

Go to the homepage and create your Amazon Associates account.

Build Your Amazon Associates Profile

Click on “New Customer” when you have signed in to your Amazon account and follow the steps to build your account.

Enter Your Account Information

Add your Name, Address, phone number of the payee in account info.

Add Your Websites Details

On the next step, enter your website address(es), Youtube channels and apps, etc on the website and mobile list.

Enter Your Preferred Store ID

In the profile section, enter your preferred associate’s store ID, which is usually the same as your primary website name. Explain what your websites want to perform, and select Amazon topics that describe your website or app.

Explain how you drive traffic to the website

Come to the traffic and monetization section and select how you drive traffic to your website, how you utilize your website and app to generate income, how you build links, and how many visitors your website gets per month.

Enter your phone number

In the Identity Verification section, enter your mobile number and click on “CALL ME NOW”, and get a call from Amazon. Then you’ll be asked to input a four-digit code, your account will be approved once it will be completed.

Select your payment method

Choose your payment method or enter tax information, you may enter now or later. Then proceed to your dashboard.

How to create Amazon Affiliate links

Once you’ve created your account, you’ll be redirected to your associate homepage. This is where you’ll find your Performance Dashboard and this is also where you’ll find relevant products to link to your content.

There are some steps to create an Amazon Affiliate links:

Advantages of Amazon Affiliate Program

Some Disadvantages of Amazon Affiliate Program

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