How to Get Traffic From Amazon.Com
Amazon.com is one of the world's largest online retailers, and most webmasters and publishers would welcome traffic from the Internet giant to their own websites and blogs. Amazon doesn't usually link to other websites, and even its third-party sellers market and sell their goods through the main Amazon site. The only way for independent webmasters to get traffic from Amazon.com is to register with the site's Amazon Associates affiliate program and set up an online aStore. The aStore is part of Amazon, but you can select the products range and market the store separately. One of the benefits of setting up an aStore is that you can include a link to your own website or blog, and this will deliver traffic from Amazon.
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Instructions
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Launch your Web browser and go to astore.amazon.com. This opens the aStore for Amazon Associates sign up page.
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Click the "Join Associates" link under "Don't Have an Account?" if you're not currently a member of Amazon Associates. You must be a member of the Associates affiliate program to build an aStore. Complete the online application form and wait for the membership confirmation email from Amazon.
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Click the "Build an aStore Now" button. Enter your Amazon Associates ID and password into the input fields on the login page, then click the "Sign In Using our Secure Server" button.
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Type your preferred aStore tracking identification into the "Add a new Tracking ID" input field. You can choose any word or code, because Amazon will automatically link this to your account. The purpose of entering a tracking ID is so that users can separate aStore sales with affiliate sales from other sources. Click the "Continue" button. This opens the "Create aStore Pages" page.
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Add products to your aStore by clicking the "Your aStore Link" in the main pane. You can select individual products by entering relevant keywords into the search field and clicking the check box beside each product to add it your aStore. You can also select Amazon Listmania products lists, and entire Amazon product categories and sub-categories. Each time a visitor buys a product from your aStore, Amazon will pay you a percentage commission.
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Click the check box beside "Enable a Link Back to my Site in Navigation" to select and enable this option. Type the name of your website or blog and the full Uniform Resource Locator address for the site into relevant input fields. This configures the link from the Amazon aStore that will send traffic to your website or blog.
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Click the "Continue" button to select the layout, design and color theme for the aStore with the supplied color-picker took and layout templates. Click the "Preview Store" link to see how the design looks in your Web browser. When you're happy the design, click "Continue." Select sidebar widgets for the aStore from the available options; for example, you can include an Amazon Wishlist in a sidebar widget. Click "Continue." Copy the link code from the text field. You can use this code to publicize the aStore and include a link from your own site. Click the "Finish" button to complete the process.
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Tips & Warnings
The amount of traffic you receive from the Amazon aStore link will depend on the popularity of your aStore. You can edit the aStore at any time by logging into your Amazon Associates account, clicking the "aStore" tab and selecting the "Edit" button beside the aStore.
