How To Start Amazon Affiliate Program Step By Step Guide

Do you want to become an Amazon affiliate?

In this article, I am going to show you how to start Amazon affiliate marketing.

Using their affiliate program, you can build your online business and earn a commission from Amazon.

I will show you how to do it step by step, to make it easier for you.

 

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Step By Step Guide To Become An Amazon Affiliate

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STEP 1: Go to Amazon Associates

The first thing you should do is type in ‘Amazon Affiliate’ into Google, and then click on the first link that appears.

When you get to the page, you can find out some information about Amazon’s affiliate program. You should really read everything about this program if you are going to really dive into it and use this affiliate program.

It is a great affiliate program for beginners, it is a really user-friendly program and a way to earn money online. 

They do have some quirks that I will go through as well.

 

Step 2: Decide On The Email You Want To Use

You can either set up your account and join them for free or login if you already have an account.

You do want to set up an account here under Amazon Associates just so you are making sure you are creating your account in the right space.

If you already have an Amazon account that you use when you are shopping, you can still use it that same login for Amazon Associates.

But not to confuse myself, I use my business email to sign up for the Amazon affiliate program so I make sure I keep things separate.

 

TIP: Do Not Buy From Your Own Links Or Send To Friends & Family

One of the quirks I was telling you about Amazon is that you cannot just use your own affiliate links to shop for yourself or send them to your friends and family to have them buy off of your links.

They do not allow that, don’t ask me how they know who your friends and family are but they know so you better not be earning from your friends and family.

 

 

 

 

Step 3: Choose Your Countries

Amazon Associates is available worldwide but not all countries, basically wherever Amazon is available.

You want to make sure you are signing up under the right country that you want when you are building your business, you are basically selling on the internet.

That means that you may get visitors from the United Kingdom or from France or wherever around the world on your website.

You may want to sign up for more than one country and you can do that so just because you are living in a specific country it does not mean you can’t sign up for other countries.

For example, the majority of my traffic is from the US, UK, and Canada, so I could sign up with Amazon’s affiliate program for USA, UK and Canada, even though I only live in USA.

It makes sense that I sign up for all three countries, they have a function inside to link everything together in a tool called One Link which will offer your readers the appropriate Amazon links when they click based on their location.

 

Step 4: Follow The Form & Sign Up

When you are on their site, the first thing is to join for free and go through their application process is very simple and self-explanatory.

Just fill out the forms as they require and you’ll be up and running in no time.

You do need a website or some sort of social media presence during the application process, they will ask for this.

Once you have completed your form and submitted, you should be able to access your affiliate links.

They don’t typically look at accounts until they have made some sales.

So good luck!

 

Things To Note: Commissions

On the website, they mention that you will advertise their products and earn up to 10% on advertising fees meaning these are commissions.

They have a fee schedule as they say this is the associate program standard fee schedule which is their commission rates.

There are very few products that are above 5%, only luxury beauty products, and Amazon coins are 10% and everything else is below 5% and the majority is at 4% with all other categories.

They recently had a change and decreased some of the rates that they had but they are still a pretty good program but I would not put all your eggs in one basket with Amazon because they keep decreasing their rates.

So I would have a start with them to gain trust from your visitors but I wouldn’t just use them alone.

 

Things To Note: 24 Hour Cookie Duration

They also have a 24-hour cookie duration which means your visitors only have 24 hours to make a purchase after they click on your affiliate links for you to earn your commission.

 

 

 

 

So, let’s say they don’t buy within the 24 hours after they clicked on your affiliate link to go to Amazon to buy, but then they buy like 24 hours and a 1 second after they had clicked your link then you don’t get that commission.

However, if they do buy within the 24-hour duration you get to earn everything in the cart that they buy so maybe you are just promoting kitchen stuff but then they’re also buying all sorts of other things like tents and you know pet supplies and all that.

You get to earn commissions on all those products because they are buying within the 24-hour duration.

That is actually one of the best perks about the Amazon affiliate program and why it’s a great way to earn from this program.

 

Things To Note: No Commissions In Your 1st 180 days

For beginners sometimes they could get stuck and they may not make their first sale within the first 180 days.

What happens if you don’t make your first sale in 180 days?

They will close your account and when they close your account then you are not going to be able to get sales from that same account.

You’ll need to re-apply later when you have more traffic in your online business.

I would suggest if you are really brand new to affiliate marketing then do not apply for an account on Amazon until you have something that is already generating traffic for you consistently every single day. 

If you don’t know how to do that with your website, then you should keep reading as I’ll show you where you can learn how to build your website better.

 

Pay Attention To Amazon’s Terms & Conditions for the Affiliate Program

I really suggest that you go through their terms and conditions and read all their rules because there’s some like offline marketing that you are not allowed either like email marketing you cannot put a bunch of their affiliate links on email.

They also have a required affiliate disclaimer that has to be on your site the whole time on every page, so beware of this and get the exact clause you need at the bottom of this website.

 

 

Deciding On A Niche

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The first thing you need to do to set up your Amazon affiliate website is by deciding on a niche.  The best thing to do is look at the Amazon bestseller list in every single category.

This is a very good way for you to check out what to promote first of all and what niche you can go into.

Definitely pick a niche because when you are doing affiliate marketing you are trying to become an expert in a certain field or at least per website because when you have visitors coming to your website for a particular topic.

You should develop trust in that niche and that’s why you should only have one niche per website.

 

 

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