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How to Boost your Amazon Affiliate Earnings

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Amazon Affiliation is surely the simplest and safest way to make money online, I explain the operation in detail.
If you're in the middle of web marketing (and more specifically SEO), you've probably heard about Amazon Affiliation or someone around you has tried it. Much like drop shipping and Amazon FBA, Amazon Affiliation is a very fashionable way to make money online.


On the other hand, if you are outside of this universe, this article is for you! You will discover a whole new world and an incredible way to generate income thanks to your content (blog, site, Facebook page or other). If today more and more people are interested in this phenomenon it is simply because it is surely the easiest way to generate income thanks to its website but also because it does involve no financial risk.
But what exactly is this? Can we really live? Can everyone do it?

First, what is affiliation?

Affiliation is the fact of getting a commission when you recommend a product to someone and that the purchase is made "thanks to you" in a way. This is nothing more than the word of mouth method except that you are paid for your recommendation. To take a concrete example, it is as if you recommend this excellent restaurant around the corner to your neighbor and after his meal, the restaurateur had come to offer you 10% of the total bill. Well, say that it's a bit strange but on the web, this mechanism is particularly buoyant.

The easiest way to make money?

In my opinion, affiliation is the least risky business online because you can do everything on your own and incur no costs. Apart from the cost of a domain name and your hosting, say 60 € in the year, you start in the affiliation will cost you nothing, 0 €.
If you have already tried drop shipping, you know as I do that without advertising Facebook or Instagram, it is very difficult to generate traffic to its site and therefore sales at the end of the tunnel. In our case, your traffic will come almost entirely from search engines and will be completely free. No need to advertise continuously to hope for sales because, with the work of SEO you have done, visitors will flow to your site passively, just like your income.
The same thing with e-commerce or Amazon FBA, you have no stock to buy to start Amazon membership and you save yourself the expense of several hundred or even thousands of euros.
Attention, however, the mechanisms are simple and safe but I did not say it was easy. Succeeding in affiliation requires a certain amount of work and perseverance!

What is Amazon doing in there?

If we take the example of the previous restaurant, Amazon is the restaurateur: it will pay you between 3 and 10% commission on all purchases of customers that you sent him. Note well "on all purchases", ie if you recommend a camera for example and the user decides to buy the memory card and the cover that goes with it, you are also paid. Since Amazon is particularly good at offering a whole bunch of related or resulting products from previous searches, it's a safe bet that if you buy the user will have several products in his basket. This is called "cross-selling" and it's a real asset to you, the affiliate.
If we talk so often about "Amazon affiliation" is because their affiliate program is surely the best installed in the field of e-commerce in the world. With just a few clicks, visitors can find links to products on Amazon and earn a commission on each sale they make.
Ex: if you have a blog where you recommend your personal readings to your visitors, you can already earn money with Amazon Affiliation! To do this, simply register for the "Amazon Partners" program and start adding links to Amazon inside your content. This does not change the user experience and it will pay the same price as if it went directly to Amazon without going through your site. The only difference is that at the end of the operation you will receive a commission on the book as recommended but also on all purchases made by this visitor on Amazon within 24 hours after clicking on your link (c is the duration of the cookie set by Amazon).
This process is so simple to implement that it has become a great way to generate additional income or to live as I do. For that, it is essential to choose a niche because, on Amazon, not all products are equal in terms of commission. Here is the summary table of the commissions according to the category of product:


This table is updated continuously, do not rely on it but go see directly on their website: https://partenaires.amazon.fr/help/operating/schedule

Logically, you might think that recommend expensive products like laptops, TVs or smartphones is a good plan but the reality is a little different. I quickly explain why:
  • As you can see in the table, the commission rates for "High-Tech" products are the lowest in the program at 3%. If you bring the sale of a TV to 500 €, you will receive "only" 15 €.
  • Expensive purchases tend to be well thought-out by Internet users who prefer to compare offers rather than compulsively buying. The 24-hour period after the click is more likely to expire and your conversion rate (number of clicks/purchase made) can be impacted.
  • Returns tend to be higher on expensive products than on low-cost products. When a product is returned to Amazon, the commission you were assigned is simply canceled by Amazon.
If you compare the rate of commission of luggage or watchmaking, the sale of a product, say a watch, 150 € can bring you as much as a TV 500 €! When choosing the theme of the site on which you want to start the Amazon affiliation, it is necessary to ask all these questions to avoid completely missing.

Can we really live and how long does it take?

Yes, this is my case now and it is also one of many people who have built a whole business model around the affiliation (with Amazon or not).
On the other hand, I prefer to explain to people that I form that it is better to start by aiming for a supplement of income like 500 €  per month rather than sums like 5000 € or 10 000 € per month to avoid becoming discouraged. To obtain an almost passive income of 500 € / month is a beautiful objective and can, for example, make it possible to pay in full a rent, before to see further and little by little to be able to live totally of it.
I give this sum because I consider that by giving a little of his time and his energy can easily reach these results in 6 months. It is obviously possible to earn much more over the same period but I consider that a beginner does not necessarily have the time or cash to industrialize the process.
Of course, with these estimates, I assume that you start from 0 and that currently, you have no traffic generating site. If, on the other hand, you already have a site with a few visitors, it is possible to generate income  now for
What you must remember
In summary, Amazon Affiliation is a simple and safe way to start making money online. You are paid every time a user visits your site before making a purchase decision on Amazon, and this, on his entire shopping cart. It is said that you monetize your audience.
I like to say that it's simple and risk-free since the minimum investment to get started is the purchase of a domain name and hosting. From there you can logically do everything yourself or delegate some of the work if you want to speed up the process.
While in dropshipping / Amazon FBA you will have to start by buying your Facebook, Instagram or other advertising traffic, the Amazon Affiliation is based entirely on free traffic from Google.
 "Simple" and without real risk
  Almost zero initial investment
  Within reach of everyone (being comfortable with the computer/web tool is still recommended)
  Passive income
  Unlike drop shipping, no need to advertise Facebook, Instagram
  If you start from a blank page, income is not immediate
  "Simple" does not mean miracle, it takes a lot of work
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