Become An Amazon Affiliate

Becoming an Amazon affiliate means that you are accepted into the program whereby you can send visitors from your web site to Amazon and if they purchase a product from Amazon you earn commission.

This program can be a real money earner if you own an information based web site and perfect for Site Build It users. Amazon has literally thousands of products that you can recommend to your visitors. You can earn up to 10% of the retail price of the product in commission and once you have placed your recommendation and Amazon's link on your site there is no more maintenance or customer service work at all.

Just to give you a quick example here of how this works. If you have read any more of this web site you will know that I own a very successful hobby web site on dolls houses. There are several dolls houses that Amazon sells that I recommend to my customers. To refer my visitors to Amazon I simply put a recommendation like the one below on my web site:

Finished Doll House

This house has lots of decorative detail throughout the interior and exterior. The outside of the house is papered in a beautiful pink colour with a checkerboard roof that is covered with real wooden tiles. The inside of the house is decorated with a tasteful blend of pastels & bright hues precisely painted--dainty flowers, graceful stripes, ceramic-looking tiles & wooden floors, and two staircases of beautiful mahogany. This house is extremely good value for money and you can also add lighting to the package. Click Here to find out more!

When visitors to my web site view this recommendation and click on the link to Amazon and purchase I earn commission.

One of the best things about being an amazon affiliate is that you earn commission on every product that a visitor purchases. For example if my visitor clicked through the above link on my dolls house web site, decided not to purchase this dolls house but purchased a different dolls house, some dolls and some home furnishings she had been looking for I would earn commission on all of these products. This really does mean that your commission adds up quickly.

I earn thousands of dollars from this program and so can any good information web site!

You can sign up for the Amazon.com associates program at: http://affiliate-program.amazon.com/

Amazon affiliate has several programs based in different countries but I recommend starting with Amazon.com as this is the program that will most likely give you the best return. I am based in the UK but the largest proportion of visitors to my web site are from the USA and I earn the most commission from Amazon.com

After you have signed up you can choose if you want to be on Amazons Classic or Performance fee structure. Always choose Performance. This means that the more products you sell the greater percentage of commission you earn.

More about Amazon:

Amazon has several different departments. You don't need to know everything about all of them but if you want more information here it is: