How To Monetize Your Blog With Amazon Associates Affiliate Program
You may be familiar with monetizing your blog through ad revenue, but to maximize your blog's earning potential, you should also learn how to monetize your blog through Amazon Associates.
Becoming an Amazon Associate is very simple, and there are an abundance of resources and assistance available to help you get started quickly and dramatically increase your income earning potential.
Unlike ad sites, which frequently require that you have an already established site before considering your application, Amazon Associates allows you to get started without having to demonstrate that you have a successful site.
When you join Amazon Associates, you get the added benefit of being able to use your main account to put links to affiliate products not only on your blog, but also on other sites you may use for backlinking, such as Squidoo, Hubpages, and others.
If you decide to place affiliate links to products on multiple sites, Amazon allows you to create unique tracking IDs so that you can accurately track the progress of each site and determine what is working and what isn't.
Many bloggers make the mistake of ignoring Amazon Associates because they believe it is all about product reviews, which is completely false.
Of course, selling affiliate products is ideal for product-based websites, but successful Amazon Associates understand that affiliate links can be used in a variety of ways.
If you write a blog post about a famous person, why not increase your chances of making more money by including an affiliate link to a biography of that person?
Many bloggers also use Amazon Associates for the fantastic images that can be generated, because affiliates have the option of creating an image or text link (or both, if so desired).
Not only are Amazon commissions generous, increasing with the number of products sold, but they also allow you to make money whether or not you sell the item featured on your blog!
This is the best part about Amazon because all you have to do is get someone to click through your link and, once they are on Amazon's site, you will receive commission regardless of what they buy, even if they did not buy the product you displayed.