{"id":1235,"date":"2018-03-07T10:43:37","date_gmt":"2018-03-07T10:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firstsiteguide.com\/amazon-affiliate\/"},"modified":"2023-10-04T08:48:38","modified_gmt":"2023-10-04T08:48:38","slug":"amazon-affiliate","status":"publish","type":"guide","link":"https:\/\/firstsiteguide.com\/amazon-affiliate\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Affiliate Program: How to Get Started and Make Money"},"content":{"rendered":"
Millions of people spent more than 386 billion<\/a> U.S. dollars on Amazon in 2020 alone. You can get a cut of that revenue by joining and implementing affiliate offers from Amazon on your own website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In this guide, we will explain what the Amazon Associates program is and how to get started with it. Also, we will show you the best practices for finding and promoting Amazon affiliate products to earn money from them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Table of contents<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n Before you dive into reading this guide, we are assuming that you have already completed two things: started a blog<\/a> and picked a profitable niche<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Amazon Associates<\/a> is one of the first online affiliate marketing programs, launched in 1996. Amazon Associates holds the biggest share of the affiliate marketing business with 45.77%<\/a>. The program has an established track record of developing solutions to help website owners make money by advertising millions of products from Amazon<\/a>. When website owners and bloggers who are Associates create links and customers click through those links and buy products from Amazon, they earn referral fees. It\u2019s free to join and easy to use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n There are plenty of ways that you can establish revenue when you start a blog or build a website<\/a>. However, Amazon Associates represents one of the best-known methods for making money online<\/a>. The whole process is easy to understand.<\/p>\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Just create an account with Amazon Associates (account approval usually takes 24-48 hours), acquire individual affiliate links and include them on your website. When visitors click these links and make the purchase, Amazon will give you up to 10% of each sale. Importantly, this does not only refer to the actual item you are linking to, but to any other product that the user purchases from Amazon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Now all of this sounds exciting, right? Well, the whole journey takes time, and making the right decisions along the way. Therefore, let\u2019s take a look at how you can earn money with Amazon Associates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Amazon will give you a percentage fee for each item that was sold and referred through your affiliate link. A user can buy any product within a 24 hour period (or 30 days if they added an item to their cart) via your affiliate link, and you will receive the commission for that sale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Amazon offers different fee rates<\/a> for various product categories. Here is the breakdown:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What is the Amazon Associates program?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
How much can you make as an Amazon affiliate?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n