How to earn with affiliations Amazon
When you open your first blog, the word monetization for you it means only one thing: advertising . Will place some banners on the pages, you will produce content to repeat (sometimes not so common) and your site will make you rich.
Soon you realize that it is not. To make money with advertising it takes hundreds of thousands, millions of page view per month. To achieve this, or invest a lot of money in the growth of the site .Obviously, many sites will never reach these numbers.
It is quite another when you're working with affiliate programs, or when you promote products and services in exchange for a commission every time your site generates a sale.
Affiliations make it much more than advertising, and made the right way, can really generate a passive income.
In this tutorial I will explain the potential of the Amazon affiliate program and how to use it to earn more from your site .
What is an affiliate program?
Like I mentioned before, but if you do not know yet, that's what an affiliate program.
Many sites, especially e-commerce, offering affiliate programs that you recognize a percentage of each sale that procure through your website . To use them, you must do so in general:
- having your own website,
- join the affiliate program,
- generate the appropriate link sales for the product that you want to promote (through a web interface),
- enter the link to your site, where you like (usually within a page that talks about the product).
At this point, if a reader of your site click on this link, will end up on the site that sells its product. If we buy the product, you will be paid a percentage. At the end of each month you will be paid commissions.
The percentages for physical products are usually very low, 3, 4, 5 per cent. Instead, for digital products, such as ebook, since the manufacturer has a top margin, it recognized a higher percentage, not infrequently even over 30%.
This explains, very quickly, as you can earn with affiliations!
Why choose the affiliate program of Amazon?
Because then I chose the Amazon affiliate program? The reasons are many and you will explain below.
First of all, the Amazon affiliate program has several important advantages for the affiliates :
- the fees are pretty good, often superior to competitors, or 5% or 10% depending on the product categories,
- Amazon pays off, if you have reached the minimum threshold, which does not exist for a month payment is missed (problem with many other circuits affiliate)
- interface to use to generate the links and see the relationship is very simple,
- reports are very detailed and allow to analyze well performance (even if there are no graphics)
- the tools to sell are varied, from text links, images, banners,
- the service is quick, friendly and precise,
- there is an appropriate forum in which to exchange tips, help and opinions,
- Amazon affiliate program is virtually identical worldwide, so it is easy to find tutorials and forums from which to draw support (in English of course, but there is also something in Italian)
- Earnings for any purchase made after a click on your link, not only if you purchase the product that you had linked accurate.
This last point is very important to understand. Other affiliate programs stored on the computer of the person who clicks on your link a cookie. This cookie is used to purchases made in a period of time subsequent to that person (for example, within 30 days).
Amazon does not use any cookies, it accredits only commissions on sales made within a single session. You can gain from items in the cart and bought up to 90 days later.
For many, the fact that the affiliate program of Amazon does not provide for the use of these cookies, is a big drawback. But we must take into account the overall picture.
In fact, within a single session (ie from the moment you arrive on Amazon from your link), Amazon will credit the commission for any purchase is made . And you know that Amazon has infinite product categories.
In addition, the company continually works to optimize its recommendation engine , which suggests other purchases to the visitor. To make you understand the potential of this approach, I make you an example.
Suppose you put on your site a link to a book that would earn $ 2 commission. A visitor to your site clicks on the link and buy the book.
Now they come in two basic factors: the endless assortment of Amazon and its sophisticated recommendation system.
Thus, visitors who bought the book, according to its purchases and its previous visits we see recommended a more expensive product, say a digital camera on which gain $10 . Since it is a camera that interests him much, he bought it.
Then Amazon advises various accessories: a bag, a battery, and so on. The visitor continues to buy, within the same session. In the end, among other purchases, you take home well over two-euro that would have earned from the purchase of the book that you were linked.
This is not an example so rare. Visitors of my site continuously buy items from categories totally away from the niche in which I work (photography).
So, two things that Amazon continually optimizes for its own interest, namely assortment and recommendations, they become valuable allies to increase your earnings. In other words, Amazon works hard and effectively to make you earn with affiliations, more and more!
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