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Tips to earn money using Amazon Associates Program
1. Gain Traffic
In order to keep the upward swing of your earnings from Amazon, you must have increasing number of traffic. Not many people will be convinced by your affiliate promotions. So, you will have a better chance of hooking some of them when you have more viewers or readers. Also, you will need to build really helpful and valuable content in order to gain decent traffic in your blog.
2. Build Trust
You must be a blogger who has established trust and loyalty to your readers for them to believe in your writings and reviews. There must be this great connection that binds you to them. This must work so that whenever you recommend any product for them to buy, they will be willing to take your suggestion and purchase the deal.
3. Set a Niche
In relation to the previous point, you must have a niche to target a specified market. For instance, if your blog posts are all talking about HD cameras and lenses, you will be seen as an expert of this field. You will not only build trust, but you will get people who are interested in this common niche to follow your blog. In the long run, you will have a better chance of converting them to buyers of products you write about.
4. Sign up as an Amazon Associate
Creating an account is simple. The best part is that it’s only for free. Just log on to Amazon.com and click on the Join Associates link. After this, wait for an approval message welcoming you as a new member of their program. The next step is for you to select products you want to write about and get your personalized link to the item.
5. Write From the Heart
Do not write reviews merely to fool people to buying products which you have not personally used or tested yourself. Actually you can do this but you won’t be as expressive and credible if you don’t have the real experience with the thing. Readers will sense this and they might think that you are only hyping up a product and not really providing a real review of it. To promote sales further, a good idea is to give them an exhausted list of pros and cons.
6. Share Informational Links
Sometimes there are those products that are not yet out for the market’s use. Information posted about them is displayed only for awareness. As you may want to be one of the first to share about these items, you may write about your expectations and predictions on features and specifications. You may also base your judgment on the predecessors or competitors of the brand’s model and other products. Then mention the related informational links to direct readers to more info they can use. They may set a pre-order of the item from the link.
7. Utilize Amazon Banners and Buttons
Once you become a member of the Amazon Associates Program, you will be entitled to use all the available banners and advertisements in the form of text and images. In your site, do not only upload them as part of your widgets at the side. More effectively, provide product features in writing that are relevant to the banners ads in your blog posts.
8. Highlight Discounts and Other Promotions
Give your readers the benefit of knowing the discounted items on Amazon. To do this, you must frequently monitor which hot items are for sale with slashed down prices. Then take these naturally into your posts and refer them to customers.
9. Promote Your Blog
This last step forms a looping cycle back again to the first step. After doing careful tasks in participating in the associates program, you have to communicate with other networks and bloggers about your site. Participate in forum discussions and head out to online pages which similar topics. This is to expand the number of your readers and also gain more insights in becoming successful in this program.
End Notes
Amazon has millions of customers around the world. And it would not be too selfish not to give users commissions. In a way, you are helping Amazon build more customer retention and more revenue to the online commerce site. Don’t be discouraged though as you will be getting about 4% of commission initially. Eventually, this rate will rise following the number of items you sell monthly.
Celina Conner is a Yoga Instructor, a holder of a Marketing Diploma from Martin College Australia and a mother of a beautiful daughter, Krizia. Follow her adventures on her Twitter.If you are also interested writing for us ,please check our Guest Blogging Guidelines at write for us
Wow I like your tips thanks to sharing useful tips to Make Money with Amazon.
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Really awesome share. I also earn money from my blog but i also need some other ways, and Amazon Associates Program is really another great platform to earn money. Thanks for the tips.keep sharing.