How to become an Amazon affiliate? Step-by-step explanation
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Abdul Wadood
Amazon’s affiliate marketing program (called Amazon Associates) was founded in July 1996, and it has been around for many years.
It’s one of the most popular affiliate programs, and they offer a wide range of products to promote.
But, how to become an Amazon affiliate? What are the requirements?
In this blog, you’ll find the answers to your questions.
Let’s get started!
Topics to be covered in this blog:
What is Amazon Associates?
First, I’ll quickly explain affiliate marketing.
Affiliate marketing is a business model where you partner with a merchant and sell their products for a commission.
Nice.
Amazon Associates is an affiliate program offered by Amazon. It’s pretty easy and free to sign up for the program.
They offer a wide range of products to promote, and if a customer purchases a product through your affiliate link, you’ll receive a commission from Amazon.
What are the requirements to become an Amazon affiliate?
If you want to become an Amazon affiliate, you should have a website or other sources to drive traffic.
If you’re an affiliate marketer, you’ll probably have a website. However, if you don’t have one, don’t worry.
Creating a website is simple and affordable too!
How to create a website?
I remember the early days when creating a website used to involve a lot of coding. If you didn’t know to code, you had to hire a developer, which was expensive.
Thankfully, nowadays, creating a website has become pretty easy — thanks to the evolvement of Content Management Systems (CMS) like WordPress.
With WordPress, you can create and publish your website within 30 minutes.
Besides WordPress, you also need a domain name and web hosting solution for publishing your website on the internet.
Here’s a quick explanation of what’s a domain name and web hosting.
- Domain name — A domain name is the address of your website on the internet. You should choose your domain name wisely as it’s complicated to change it later. Registering a domain name usually costs about $10 from established domain name registrars like Namecheap.
- Web hosting — Web hosting is the server where you’ll store your entire website. Also, web hosting is essential for people to access your website on the internet.
Though you can purchase the domain name and web hosting separately, I personally prefer buying them together from web hosting service providers like HostGator.
By doing so, you can get your domain name for free for a year – if you opt for yearly plans.
HostGator charges about $60 for the first year, which is pretty affordable.
Once you purchase the hosting, you can install WordPress and start creating your website.
It’s that simple!
Once you create the website, you can start publishing high-quality content to drive traffic.
If you want to drive more visitors to your blog, you should optimize it for SEO to rank high on the search results.
Various factors affect SEO performance. Some of them include the following.
- Web page loading speed
- Number of high-quality backlinks
- Keyword optimization
- Internal links
- User experience
You can also promote your blogs through PPC advertising, email marketing, social media marketing, etc., to increase the traffic.
However, note that paid advertising strategies like PPC advertising can be expensive. If you start running ads without a proper strategy, you can end up losing a lot of money.
Rules that Amazon affiliates should follow
Having seen about creating a website, let’s now go through the set of rules that Amazon affiliates should follow. I have listed some of them below.
- You shouldn’t shorten the affiliate links.
- If you want to be eligible for a commission, you should disclose the affiliate links.
- You shouldn’t modify the link, button, or any features of Amazon.
- You shouldn’t promote a product by conveying deceptive and misleading information to people.
- You shouldn’t engage in promoting the affiliate links through offline channels. Offline channels include e-book, private messages, emails, etc.
How to join in Amazon affiliate program?
Below I have listed the steps to join in Amazon affiliate program.
1. Create an Amazon account
Step #1: Visit amazon.com
Step #2: Create an Amazon account.
If you already have an Amazon account, feel free to skip this step and move on with the next part.
Step #3: Fill in the details and click “Create your Amazon account”.
Step #4: Enter the OTP that Amazon sends to your email address. Once entered, click “Create your Amazon account”.
Step #1: Go to the Amazon Associates page and click “Sign up”.
Step #2: Login into your Amazon account.
Step #3: Fill in the form by providing the correct details and click “Next”.
Step #4: Enter your website or mobile app URL and click “Next”.
Step #5: Fill in your profile with correct details and click “Finish”. This will take you to the congrats page.
Step #6: Enter your payment and tax information.
Step #1: Log into your Amazon Associates account.
Step #2: Click on the “Product Linking” menu.
Step #3: Search for a product.
You can either search for a product by typing its keyword or by ASIN/ISBN.
In my case, I am going to search for the keyword “Adidas sneakers men”.
Choose the product you want to promote and click “Get link”.
Step #4: Click “Text” that appears at the top-left corner of the page to get your affiliate link.
As mentioned before, you can also search for a product using ASIN or ISBN.
You can find the ASIN of a product in the Product Details section of the product page.
Copy the ASIN number and paste it on the search bar, and the remaining steps are the same.
Conclusion
I hope this blog gave you a clear idea of how to become an Amazon affiliate.
Amazon Associates is a fantastic money-making opportunity for new and even experienced affiliate marketers. They offer a wide range of products to promote.
Moreover, since Amazon is an established company with a strong customer base, promoting the products can be easier.
If you keep publishing high-quality content that benefits people, you can make a lot of money through Amazon Associates.
