WHAT IS AMAZON AFFILIATE PROGRAM?

WHAT IS AMAZON AFFILIATE PROGRAM?

Make money with your blog? Wouldn't that be great? At the same time, if you're there, that's good for! I will explain to you how to make the most of the Amazon affiliation! All the advantages, the limits but also unknown tips to finally monetize your blog without taking your head!

To begin with, what is Amazon affiliation?

Affiliate is probably the most popular method with advertising to generate revenue on your site. The principle is simple, you recommend one or more products (present on Amazon in this case) in one of your articles and you receive a commission on each sale! Imagine promoting a $ 300 camera and selling 100 per month with a 3% commission. Result? You will receive 900 €! Not bad is not it ?

Why use the Amazon Affiliate?

Already, who does not know Amazon? Not only is it number 1 in e-commerce in France, but it also has a solid reputation in terms of its sales department!

Obviously, if you recommend a product on Amazon, people are not going to have doubts about the seller and therefore you will not lose sales this way!

Then, Amazon invested a fortune to convert as many visitors as possible into buyers! All you have to do to take advantage of it is send them visitors. No customer management, no sales to manage and it's super easy to set up!

And then of course, with this affiliate program, you don't have to worry about paying commissions ...

Suffice to say that the result will not be the same if you sell watches (10% on fairly high amounts) or if you sell iPhones cases (3% on ridiculous amounts ...).

Note also that Amazon regularly offers promotional offers to its affiliates. For example, if you promote their premium service, you can earn $ 3 per subscription for the 30-day Amazon Premium trial. The latest offers can be viewed here

When are the commissions affected?

Commissions are received 2 months after the items have been ordered. If you sell 5 products in November 2016, you will not earn commissions on those products until January 2017.

Why this delay? Quite simply because if the product is returned by the buyer you will not receive anything! Amazon therefore allows the 30 days to pass during which the return is possible.

So you understand, you only earn commissions on products shipped AND not returned!

There is also a minimum that must be met for Amazon to pay you your commissions.

If you have chosen payment by bank transfer or Amazon gift voucher, the minimum amount is 25 €

If you have chosen payment by check, the minimum amount is € 50

ow to join the Amazon partner club?

I haven't talked about it before, but this step being very simple, I won't dwell on it.

To register and become an "Amazon affiliate", you just have to go to https://partenaires.amazon.fr/ and follow the instructions, it is well explained! (well normally 🙂)

How do I find products to recommend?

Once connected to the site https://partenaires.amazon.fr, you will arrive on your personal interface which will directly offer you to search for products

Once the product is found, click on "Get a link"

Another method that I find much better is the Amazon Partner Toolbar. This is present on all pages of the Amazon site if you are connected to your partner account:

The big advantage is that you are browsing the Amazon site directly to find the products that interest you and in an instant you can generate your affiliate link.

How to promote Amazon products on your site?

Once you have found the products to offer to your audience, all you have to do is highlight them on your site. This is an essential step to optimize your affiliate sales and boost your revenues.

Amazon offers many ways to promote its products on your blog or your site, but you will see that some are clearly to be avoided!

For each possibility, the result will be HTML code that you will just have to copy into your articles to display them.

Amazon banners: manual work to be expected

It is possible to use banners offered by Amazon on specific categories but once again these are blocked by AdBlock ...

Make an affiliate link to an Amazon search

In some cases, it may be interesting to provide a link to a search to which you have applied specific filters to best target products of interest to your readers.

To do this, all you need to do is go to the Amazon site, do the research you want to share, and once you've set it up, simply click on get a "text" link in the Amazon Partners toolbar.

For example, here are the best SEO books

On the other hand, what you can do is save the image offered by Amazon which is often well done and put it on your site by applying a classic affiliate link to the desired category. Like that, you get Amazon's banners without the blocks

Publish quality content

In order for your visitors to be inclined to buy the products you offer, they must trust you. So forget about the uninteresting content with affiliate links everywhere, it won't work!

Offer well-targeted products

And finally, if you don't specifically target the products you offer to your audience, your conversion rate may be very low.

Take the time to think about what your readers are looking for. What problems do they want to solve? And then you can offer them the ideal product!

Some rules to follow to avoid losing your account

It is imperative that you mention on your site your participation in the Amazon Affiliate Program.

“[Insert your name] participates in the Amazon EU Partner Program, an affiliate program designed to allow sites to earn compensation through the creation of links to [insert name of relevant site (Amazon.co.uk /Amazon.de/ de.BuyVIP.com/Amazon.fr/Amazon.it/ it.BuyVIP.com/Amazon.es/ es.BuyVIP.com)]. "

You cannot have multiple Amazon Partners accounts

All your links must be placed on sites that belong to you.

No affiliate link must be present in your emails, pdf, ebook, ...

You should not use any URL shortener other than Amazon's

Your site must of course be legal and not offer Adult content

The list is not exhaustive and I strongly advise you to read the general conditions and appendices