How to become an Amazon Affiliate

Make money as an amazon affiliate account

If you are looking to make money from blogging then you must take into serious consideration being an amazon affiliate.
Amazon’s Associates Program lets you generate revenue from promoting their offers. Whenever someone you referred buys a product with amazon you’ll receive a percent of the sale as advertising fee.

Notice: If you are already an affiliate with Amazon then you can follow my guide

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Good thing about Amazon Associates Program is that if buyer buys a product you didn’t promote you still receive the advertising fee.

Below I m going to post a short and easy to follow guide followed by screenshots that will help you setup your first Amazon Affiliate Account in a few minutes.

Register with Amazon Associates Program

Visit Amazon Associates Program and select Join Now for Free.

Enter your email address

Fill in your email address and when done select “Sign in using our secure server“

Submit your Amazon Account Registration Info

Fill in your:

• Name and Surname
• Email Address(this probably should be auto-filled)
• Your mobile phone number(not required)
• Your password(twice)

and when finished click “Create Account“.

Enter Your Amazon Account Details

Make sure that all filed are filled and select “Next: Your Website Profile“.
Keep in mind that residents of Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, North Carolina or Rhodes Island can’t participate in Amazon Associates Program.

Enter your Website Profile Details

1. Enter your Site Title.
2. Enter your Website URL.
3. Write a short description regarding your website content, eg. News and Reviews of Gadget Related Products.
4. Select topics related to your website content, eg. Computers/Software and Movies.
5. Choose Amazon items that you intend to promote through your Amazon Affiliated Website, eg. Computers & Office and Electronics.
6. Select your Website Type, eg. Blog and Content or Niche Website.
7. Select ways of driving traffic to your website, eg. SEO. Be careful because Amazon doesn’t like Paid Search Traffic.
8. Select additional methods of monetizing your Website/Blog, eg. Contextual Advertising.
9. Select Blog Editor or Content Management System for How You Build your Links.
10. Choose your Website Traffic in Unique Visitors per month, if you are just starting then Less than 500 would be enough or else choose From 501 to 5,000.
11. Select option To monetize my site as the main reason for joining this Amazon Associates Program.
12. Finally, select where you did first hear about Amazon Associates Program, eg, from a Blog Post.

 

Your Unique Associates ID

New Page that opens is the “Confirmation Page“.
Make sure to write down somewhere your Unique Associates ID(it should end with “-20”) and then select “Specify Payment“.

Select your desired Payment Method

In this page you are going to select your preferred “Payment Method” for collecting Amazon Advertising Fees.
Notice that Direct Deposit Payment Method applies only to Associates based in the United States while check Payment Method has a reserve of $100 that you should reach before being able t withdraw money to your Bank Account.

Screenshot Gallery for Creating an Amazon Associates Account

If you read this you probably have registered an Amazon Affiliate Account already!
Time to make some money out of it 😉

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