Will Amazon Associates be your automatic dollar-earning hen?
Using Amazon affiliate marketing to make money has always been a very popular online earning project due to its high conversion rate. The success rate of newcomers using this channel to make money is very high.
If you feel that your development in the Chinese market is limited, then extending your business to high-income markets such as Europe and the United States will be a challenging but highly rewarding option.
Alfred has discussed earning dollars using English-language websites in the past . If you still don't know where to start, then opting to join the Amazon Associates Program would be a good direction.
Amazon Affiliate Marketing Profile
Amazon Amazon started the affiliate marketing program in 1996. It can be said to be the grandfather of Affiliate Marketing. Amazon attracts a large number of website owners and Internet marketing experts with generous commissions. Join its promotion.
With the help of these new marketing forces, it has also brought more online exposure to Amazon. Indirectly, this company's turnover has grown rapidly, and it has developed into the world's largest e-commerce platform today.
The unspeakable secrets of a novice
- Poor English, not high level – you can spend money to outsource English articles. Spend $10 per article and ask a foreigner to write it for you
- No website building – it’s easy to do with the website building software WordPress.
Why Join Amazon Affiliate Marketing
- Joining an affiliate is completely free and does not require any monthly fees
- Easy to apply - just have a website or a social media channel with a large following
- No location restrictions. Live in Asia can also operate the US marketing plan
- High return on investment – the initial cost of building a website is about $300 USD (website $10/year + web hosting space $120/year + 15 English articles $150USD). As long as it can continue to operate, it will be a good long-term Source of income.
- Low payment terms – as low as $10 you can apply for payment from amazon
- For the world's largest e-commerce platform. There are everything that can be sold
- The profit sharing ratio is good. The maximum commission can reach 10%
- It is a household name in the United States and has a high degree of trust. The conversion rate of the products sold can generally reach 4~6%. It is very good in the industry.
Disadvantages of Running an Amazon Affiliate
The tracking code (cookie) for the promotional link has a short validity period of only 24 hours:
When a netizen clicks on your Amazon promotion link, an Amazon tracking code will be automatically implanted on the netizen's browser. This tracking code is only valid for one day.
If the netizen pays for an order later, Amazon will judge whether to give you the bonus based on the validity period of the tracking code (cookie). That is to say, if the time of payment for the transaction is 24 hours later. Then this There is no commission for one transaction.
Some product categories have lower commissions:
For example, the commission for computer products is only 2.5%
How to build an Amazon website
1. Find a suitable product category to sell
Such as fishing tools, sewing machines, coffee machines, etc. are all good objects. Of course, you can also make the category of goods larger. For example, a website dedicated to small household appliances, which covers coffee machines, juice machines, electric Different types of pots.
Generally, it is best to choose a project that you are interested in or familiar with. In this way, it will be more convenient to operate.
In addition, it is important to also take into account the profit sharing ratio of commodity items (as shown in the picture). Some categories such as personal health products have a commission of only 1%. Conversely, kitchen or car products can get 4.5% of the share. Profit bonus. The difference is huge.
2. Purchase URL
For the selection of URLs, it was very popular to use keyword URLs (Exact Match Domain, or EMD for short). For example, CoffeeMachineReviews.com, BestHairDryers.com included keywords in the domain.
The other is the currently popular brandable domain. This type of domain name is suitable for building your own brand, which is conducive to gaining popularity and becoming an authority site. Such as CoffeeFanatics.com, BeautyQueen.com.
Afu feels that there are advantages and disadvantages between the two. It may be faster to use keyword URLs in the initial stage, but the expansion of website content is often limited by the keywords in the station name. Therefore, it is difficult to develop into a large website.
As for the current popular brand-oriented domain names, the name of the website is relatively vague. Therefore, it will be more flexible in the selection of commodity types. It is not only suitable for developing into an authoritative website, but also conducive to long-term operation.
3. Rent a web hosting space and build a website with WordPress
This step is not difficult. If you don't have a website, you can refer to the WordPress personal website setup tutorial.
4. Enrich the content of the website
Since English is not their native language, most people just choose to outsource foreigners to write like Navi4you. Currently Navi4you uses the iWriter platform to buy the articles he needs.
Of course, the more words an article has, the more likely it will be favored by the Google search engine. Generally speaking, buying an ordinary 2000-word English article usually costs $30~$40 USD. The financial burden is quite large if you buy more. Basically, the number of words in each article should be more than 500 words (about $8 USD).
Product Reviews Most Popular
As for how to write an article? Generally, the conversion rate of writing a product review article is the best. The easiest way is to ask the writer to rewrite the part of the product introduction, and then combine the user reviews on Amazon to sort out the advantages and disadvantages , for readers' reference.
The structure of the article is roughly:
- Product introduction and features
- A summary of positive user reviews
- A summary of negative reviews
When choosing Amazon products to promote, the following points are usually considered:
- The selling price of the product is higher than $50, and the commission for low-priced products is too low
- User reviews are 4 stars or more
- The number of people to evaluate is preferably more than 20 people
How to find good reference examples
To find examples of Amazon affiliate marketing sites worthy of reference, you can directly enter the relevant product name and the words "reviews" and "reviews" on Google, and it is easy to find relevant URLs. These can squeeze into the success of Google's homepage Websites are ideal research objects.
The way to search is:
- Product name + reviews (eg Wahl dog clippers reviews)
- best + product items (like best dog clippers)
- Product item + reviews (eg dog clippers reviews)
Apply to join the Amazon Affiliate Program
The review standards for Amazon affiliates are quite loose. There are not too many restrictions on the traffic and ranking of the website. Before applying, it is best to use one or two months to write about the readers on the blog. Good content that helps.
As for the number of articles, there is no certain standard. Perhaps more than 15 applications have a higher chance of success.
The membership application website of the Amazon Alliance in the United States is https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/
The Amazon alliance is divided into many different countries. They operate independently of each other. You may wish to join the Amazon alliance in the United States first.
Then according to your own needs, consider whether to join other English-speaking countries (Canada, United Kingdom, Australia). Of course, if you are proficient in other foreign languages such as French. You can also apply to join the French Amazon Alliance.
Sources of Affiliate Marketing Website Traffic
The website has enough traffic, and the income can naturally come in. There are many methods of Internet marketing, in addition to search engine optimization (SEO), the use of keywords to improve the ranking on the search engine.
You can also use some social media such as YouTube, Pinterest, FB Facebook fan page, Instagram (IG) to promote imported traffic. Among them, Pinterest brings the highest amount of traffic and is recommended by many affiliate marketers.
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Amazon commission payment method
Amazon Affiliate USA currently offers three main payment methods:
- Electronic Gift Card (Gift Card) – You can apply when the commission income reaches $10. Amazon will send it by email
- Checks – The income must reach $100 to apply. Checks are mailed and accepted worldwide.
- U.S. domestic bank transfer – requires a U.S. bank account to use. Generally, it is difficult for people who do not live in the United States to apply. At this time, you can consider using the free U.S. personal bank account provided by Payoneer to receive USD foreign currency.
- Forex Direct Transfer – Unfortunately, there is currently no support for TWD wire transfers.
Mistakes in Amazon Affiliate Marketing
When doing Amazon affiliate marketing, you must really abide by his Operating Agreement. There are several places where newbies need to pay special attention, otherwise they may be suspended!
- Don't put the price of the product in the promotion text. Because Amazon's product price changes frequently. Sometimes the website is too late to update, causing the price to be outdated and incorrect.
- Do not put your Amazon promotion link in the email newsletter or e-book.
- Don't buy stuff on Amazon through your own affiliate link. Maybe you think you can earn a commission. But it's against the official rules.
- It must be clearly stated on your website (disclaimer) that you are using the affiliate link of the Amazon Marketing Affiliate and get a rebate commission from it.
- Do not use third-party URL shortening services (such as bitly), or intentionally hide the destination of the link (Link Cloaking). Amazon wants visitors on the website to know exactly where to click on the link. Of course, use the official URL shortening service. Amzn.to does not have this limitation.
Amazon Influencer Program (Amazon Influencer Program)
Due to the surge in the number of users of social media, the huge network traffic brought by it is no longer inferior to that of traditional blog sites. Therefore, under the original affiliate marketing system, Amazon has also developed a social platform KOL network. Red promotion channel, called Amazon Influencer Program.
You can apply as long as you have a lot of high-engagement followers on YouTube, FB, Facebook, Instagram or Twitter.
As for the number of fans required to pass the application, Amazon has no official regulations, but generally speaking, as long as there are more than 5,000 fans on the channel, you should be able to start trying to apply.
The advantage of joining the Amazon Influencer Program is that Amazon will provide you with an official official website and storefront. In addition to being able to show fans recommended products and earn profits, you can also strengthen the authority of the Amazon platform. Exposure of personal brand.
Other ways to make money with Amazon
After you operate the Amazon affiliate website for a period of time, you will observe which types of goods sell well and have high profits. At this time, you may be able to slash as a cross-border e-commerce, and sell this type of things in the Amazon mall, in addition to increasing In addition to the opportunity for profit, it can also create a variety of online money-making channels.
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