Amazon Associates

Does your website, eStore, or niche blog sell a lot of products? If the answer is yes, one thing you should definitely check out is Amazon.com’s affiliate program: Amazon Associates.

This is arguably the most popular affiliate program on the internet and with good reason. Anything sold on Amazon can be linked to from your website and you get paid when your traffic buys their products. What this means is anyone that blogs about video games, movies, books, etc. can make a lot of money with the proper use of this program. Amazon Associates also give you a lot of options for promoting their products, including text links, pictures, buttons and a variety of keyword triggered techniques.

Though Amazon 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 send them a lot of business, your percentage will go up giving you more profits.

Amazon Associates also offers something that you won’t find with most affiliate programs and that is the ability to refer people to Amazon for a particular product and get paid for EVERYTHING they buy. In fact, if you refer someone to Amazon to buy a book and they decide not to, but they instead buy 2-3 other things, you will get paid for those things. In other words, when using Amazon Associates your goal is simply to get people over to Amazon. They do the rest of the work, which is why I really like this affiliate program.

One of my goals going forward is to spend more time and focus on targeting Amazon Associates products, as I am personally very far from maximizing my income with them. I am currently in the process of finding related products for existing websites so I can work a few affiliate links into those posts. Once that is done, I will launch a site or two that is focused specifically on forwarding traffic to Amazon and see how that goes. Expect future posts about what I’m finding works and what doesn’t work as I try more things.

Integrating Amazon Associates Into Your WordPress Blog

If you’d like promote Amazon on your WordPress blog, there are a few WordPress plugins available. One is the WP-Amazon WordPress plugin and the other I’ve found is the Amazon Links Pro, both of which allow you to easily integrate AA into your blog.

If you aren’t already a member, I recommend you check out Amazon Associates!