Earn Money From Amazon
1. Niche Selection Is Crucial
I’ll get to the actual methods I use on my websites in the next tips, but the first
thing I want to say is that the niche you choose is the absolute most important
decision you can make. This literally will make or break everything you do. So if
you want to make money with Amazon’s affiliate program
You must target physical product focused niches and keywords
It’s much easier to make money using Amazon’s affiliate program if the people
coming to your website are looking for a specific product that your website
discusses. No matter how many times I say this, I still see people with completely
unrelated blogs trying to make money with Amazon.
2. Link To Products Inside Your Content
Roughly half of my Amazon income comes from basic text links posted inside the
content body area of a blog post or page.
Example: Check out this cool helicopter. I’ve been covering these RC helicopters for
months and I’ve never seen this one priced for under $30 well off its $129.95 list
price.
Simple text links in the content of an article are the most effective way to get web
visitors to click. People trust the body of the content on a page more so than any
other area of the website and I know this because the tracking data I’ve collected.
3. Make Product Images Clickable Affiliate Links:
The second best thing I’ve found next to a simple text link is
to use images of the product you’re talking about and make
them clickable like this cool usb missile launcher:
Roughly 15% of my total Amazon income has come from
simply making all of the product images on my websites
clickable affiliate links.
4. Link To Amazon.com As Many Times Possible
I alluded to this in the previous few tips but I want to make sure you understand
that each link inside one of your articles is another opportunity for a visitor to
click through and make their way onto Amazon.com.
It’s common for me to link to Amazon five to ten times in a single article
I’ll link even more frequently if I’m doing a product review and comparing
multiple products at once.
5. Product Review Articles Convert The Best
Doing a quality product review for a product directly related to your niche is a
very easy way to garner higher click thru rates and increased sales, ideally if your
review is higher quality.
Ideally you contact the manufacturer’s marketing team or PR agency and get
them to send you a demo unit of the product to review, but this takes a lot of
effort and may not be worth it on a smaller traffic site (at first).
You want to convince the reader to investigate their purchase options by the
time they finish reading an article, which is why I’ll always include links to all of
the products mentioned in a review at the end of the article. That way it’s an easy
transition from learning about the product during your review and then at the
end it’s time to make a purchase.
6. Build An Email List
You’ve probably heard this a hundred times by people telling you to build an
email list from the blogger and internet marketing crowd, but building an email
list is way easier on a physical product oriented website.
Why? People don’t have their guard up when they are researching a physical
product to purchase (when compared to other purchase decisions online i.e.
digital goods). So what I like to do is offer some type of freebie like a buyers’
guide or some type of information that provides more details about the products
they’re researching.
I could attribute at least five to ten percent of my total income due to my email
lists because I like to focus on promoting products heavily to my lists during the
holidays which leads into my next tip.
7. Write Sales And Promos During The Holidays
In past years I’ve made between $500 - $1,000 a day every day during Black
Friday Week, Cyber Monday and Cyber Week. It is lower during other holidays
like Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, Presidents Day, Valentine’s Day etc. but you can
still promote various sales during these holidays as well. I target every holiday
because Amazon creates an actual dedicated sales page every time one of these
holidays come around. The deals shared on these pages are generally really good
too.
So what I’ll do is put together an article of all the top products that are on sale in
my niche using the tips I’ve shared earlier like linking as many times as possible,
making the product image clickable and then sending out an email to my list etc.
to get even more conversions.
For the structure of these articles I like to target a frequently searched keyword
such as “Cyber Monday (My Niche) Discounts” etc. because I know people search
for “Cyber Monday” and “Black Friday” millions of times each year but they also
search a longer form version like “Cyber Monday (My Niche) Discounts”
8. Sell More Products To Make Incrementally More Money
This one sounds simple enough and it really is. The more you sell with Amazon
the more you make AND the higher percentage you earn. During holiday months
I’ve hit around the 8% mark which is double the 4% rate you start with for
shipping only 1 – 6 items per month. Even if you sold just 7 items you get bumped
up to 6% and the best part is that this increase in commission percentage is retroactive (meaning once you reach the next level you get to apply the higher
percentage referral fee to every product you’ve sold during the entire month).
9. Sell Large Quantities Of Inexpensive Products To Boost Your Payout
On High Priced Products
One thing I do is have websites that are set up in lower competition niches where
the items typically aren’t as expensive and where it’s easier to sell these products
in larger quantities ($50 or less). Then I have other niche sites that sell more
expensive products at much higher prices ($XXX – $X,XXX) that are sold less
frequently. So this way I get to use the increased quantity of sales from these
lower priced product websites to help me get up into higher payout brackets so
instead of making 6% on that high end item I’ll get 8% instead.
10. Use Multiple Tracking ID’s For Each Website
By default Amazon assigns you one tracking ID like lmwlw-20 but you can
create additional tracking ID’s here up to a total of 100. If you hit that total you
can always ask for more so feel free to be liberal with your creation of tracking
ID’s for your websites.
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