What is the Amazon Affiliate program (Amazon Associate) to earn money? - H2S Media

If you are doing any kind of content creation and want to make money through it then affiliate marketing is one of the best ways to monetize your business. Content creation business is not technically a business until you start making a profit out of it. There are some ways to monetize your business like Google Adsense, PPC, etc but earning through affiliate links is a must tool you should pick for earning. Learn

The moment you think about Affiliate marketing, one of the first affiliation programs you should get is the Amazon Affiliate program. It is also known as Amazon Associates. It does not matter if you are running a blog site, Youtube channel and any social media page like Instagram or Facebook with good followers count it is essential for all. Even if you are looking for a side income or building any business it can help you to earn some good cash if you can use it properly.

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Definition of affiliate marketing

It is nothing but a system that you can use for referring your followers or customers to some products to purchase via a link called affiliate link provider by the product seller to get a commission from selling.

An online e-commerce site or any online service provider often provides a unique product link to affiliate marketers to promote and sell their products. In return, the marketers get a commission on that product if anyone purchases the product via that affiliate link.

You do not need to do anything else, just promote the product links and drive your customers to buy it using the link, that's it. So it is a good way of earning money simply by using the method. Any social media influencer, blogger, or Youtuber just needs to get an affiliation program to start affiliate marketing for various products.

Definition of Amazon Associates or Affiliation program

It is just an affiliation program from Amazon to sell their products via affiliation links on your website or social media platforms. The free-to-join program is very simple for the users.

You need to create an associate's account on Amazon and generate affiliate links of products you want to sell on your site to earn commissions from it. When someone would buy an Amazon product using your link, you will get a selling percentage from Amazon.

Why the Amazon Affiliation program? Some benefits.

There are some benefits available in Amazon Affiliation with some good reasons.

• Amazon is one of the largest and well known online platforms for selling an immense amount of products.
• You can easily find the products that suit your website niche for selling.
• There are big and good brands available which provide quality products.
• It is Amazon. So, there is no room for scams or illegal practices. You can trust it for sure.
• You can get up to a 10% commission on selling any product via an affiliate link.
• Customer service is there to assist you in any situation.
• People can trust easily because of the name-value of Amazon so, it might be easier to influence them to use the links to purchase.
• Amazon affiliate cookies last for around 24 hours in the browser of any person who will use your affiliate links. In that time if the person buys anything then you will get the commission.
• To get the Affiliation program, you do not need to know any technical stuff. It is very simple to create, join and maintain.
• On-time payment of earnings.

The process to become an Amazon Associate is very simple and you can complete the process pretty much comfortably. You can do it by yourself. Just follow the steps we are about to mention.

How to become an Amazon Associate

1. Create an account using the Amazon Associates 'sign up'.
2. Fill up the form with the necessary details.
3. First, the fill-up payee name, address in the account information.
4. Then enter the business website or mobile app name next.
5. After that create a unique store ID in the profile section.
6. There also put business URL, niche, suited topic of your site, etc.
7. Then complete the 'Traffic & Monetization'
8. Lastly, finish the payment and tax part properly to complete it.

Brief description of the application process

Anybody can apply for Amazon Associates to earn money from affiliation. But, it is best for the people who own a website in blogging or have a YouTube channel or any social media influencer with a good subscriber count. If you want to earn through it then open a website or use your social media account to show it as a business and try to sell things via this.

So, just getting to the process

• You must have a website or social media account to show it as a business.
• Simply type Amazon Associates on the Google search engine and you will find the Signup link at the top where you can create the Amazon Associate account.
• Or, you can go to the Amazon site, and at the bottom of the page, you will get the option of 'Become an affiliate' to use it to direct you to the signup page.
• If you want to create an account with your smartphone then just scroll to the bottom of your mobile version of the Amazon page where you can see 'Go to desktop site' Use it to get the desktop version of the Amazon page to get the Become an affiliate option.
• Sign up with your email ID and a password. After that, you would get an OTP in your mail to verify the email address. After verifying it you will enter the page of 'Creating Your Amazon Associates Account.
• There you need to feel the account information. Here enter the 'Payee name' Write the exact name you have in your bank account to avoid any inconvenience in payment. Then fill in your address and other things.
• Then comes to next part which is 'Website and Mobile App List'. Here, you will find two boxes, one for the website and one for the mobile app. Enter your website URL or the YouTube channel address or your social media account address. You can add multiple URL(s) of websites and pages. And if you have any mobile app then you can add URL(s) of it also.
• The next step is 'Profile'. In this section, the first thing you need to add is a Store ID. That will be your unique Amazon Associates ID so make a unique ID according to your choice. For example, you can create it using your name and numbers. Say your name is Sam. Then create an ID like Sam4732 or Sam0987 etc. You can create any combination.
• Then on the same page, add what is your business all about like whether it is tech relates or travel-related, etc. Then select the topics that best describes your website from the options like tech, gaming, books, etc. Fill in all the things carefully that righteously describe your business type.
• In Traffic & Monetization section pick the suitable options according to the information you need to deliver. How do you drive traffic, how you generate income using the website, how you build links, the reason for joining Amazon, how did you know about Amazon, etc types of sections is there to fill.
• After finishing it, you would get a page along with the Store ID with congratulations and thank you note. The bottom of that page Enters our Payment and Tax Information section will be there with Now and Later buttons. When you click now, it might direct you to enter the password you created in the beginning. After doing so you would get an OTP on your phone for verification.
• Then it will show you that you would get the payment after reaching the minimum bar with a number of the amount. Agree to this and fill in the required bank details and tax information. After finishing this you would enter in your Store account or the dashboard with all the information and options for your use to maintain it as an Amazon Associate.

After completing the whole task and becoming an affiliate partner with Amazon, the main question arises that how do you create product affiliate links to share or promote. Well, it is one of the simplest tasks to get any product links on Amazon.

• Log in with your Associate account on Amazon.
• You can see a SiteStripe bar which will be there in any Amazon Associate account. Get into any product page you would like and use the get link option from that bar to generate an affiliate link for that product.
• Copy the link and share wherever you want. You can get the text link or with image link.

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• Use Product Linking and Product Links from the top.
  
• You can use the ASIN (Amazon Standard Identification Number) of any product or can search with the related keywords to get a specific product and tap the Go button. Get the ASIN from any Information section of the particular product.
• Then you get the link by using the Get Link option to copy the product affiliate link to use it on your business platform.

So, the whole process of applying for Amazon Associates and generate affiliate links is very simple for anyone to perform. When you would do the task you can understand the procedure very easily. Everything is there to guide you or assist you in doing any activity. And you will get all the information from your dashboard with stats. It is that much user-friendly and without any obstacles to boost your income with affiliate marketing.

Use this with a better plan and channel it out to drive your customers or followers to use your link to purchase any product. Inspire them to click the link even for a product visit so you can get any commission if they purchase any other product within the 24 hours timeline.

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