How to Get Hits As an Amazon Affiliate
You can use Amazon.com's Associates affiliate program to generate revenue for your website, but getting visitors to click affiliate links is often a challenge for webmasters. Unlike programs such as Google AdSense that pay you each time a visitor clicks an advertisement, Amazon pays its affiliates on a commission basis. You can use Amazon's link generator to create links to specific product pages tagged with your affiliate ID. You then receive anywhere from 4 percent to 10 percent of each order, depending on the product. Since affiliate commission depends directly on how many orders you refer each month, you should get as many of your visitors to click Amazon affiliate links as possible.
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Create unique and engaging content to attract visitors to your website. No one wants to read a bland product description or overhyped claims of product performance. For instance, if you are promoting baking products, you could create an article entitled "Top 10 Baking Mistakes" and link to baking products on Amazon. Write product reviews on your site that target the needs and questions of the average person directly, or post a video of an Amazon product in action. Avoid generic content visitors can find on any other website.
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Use search engine optimization (SEO) to drive targeted traffic to your website. Identify keywords related to the Amazon products you are promoting and optimize your website to rank well on search engines for those terms.
Use your keywords several times on your Web page, especially in headers, the HTML title tag and the descriptive "meta" tags. Obtain back links from other websites with your keywords as the anchor text, or link title. Writing engaging content will help immensely with this.
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Place affiliate links "above the fold." This Web advertising term refers to the first portion of your Web page visitors can see without scrolling down. Your affiliate links will be most visible here.
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Place affiliate links within and around your content as well. According to Google, advertisements at the end of articles get more clicks. Each site is different, so move your links around to see where they perform best. Some Web analytics software packages can create a heat map of your website that shows where most visitors click.
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Tips & Warnings
Network with other Amazon affiliates to learn more tips and tricks.
Don't post Amazon affiliate links in places for which you don't have approval, including message boards and bulk emails. Amazon must approve each site you post links on.
Do not encourage visitors to click affiliate links. This is a violation of the "Associates Program Participation Requirements."
Don't mask links or "trick" visitors into clicking links. This is also a violation of your agreement with Amazon.
