As we have discussed in earlier posts that affiliate marketing is one of the best and most used method to earn money online. The concept of affiliate marketing is very simple; “Selling the products of others to get your sales commission”. In this article i will briefly discuss that how can you make money online by selling products of Amazon.
What is Amazon All About?
Amazon is a website where you can sell or buy any type of products including jewelry, books, electronics, households, toys, gifts or any thing that you can think of. If you want to sell any of your used or new products then you can make an account on this website. The Amazon people charge for this service from the buyers and in this way they earn profit.
Amazon also gives the facility to website owners or Publishers to help Amazon and sellers to sell their products. So, if you are running a website and want to be affiliated with Amazon then simply make a free account and start right away. After you become a free member you are given a unique Referral ID that you can use to refer people to different product pages of Amazon. Whenever someone visits your website, clicks on a link with your Amazon ID, visits Amazon and buys some products; you earn a commission.
For the first few sales, your sales commission is 4%. As your sales increase, the rate of earning also increases as follows:
For 1 – 6 Products’ Sale: 4.00%
7-30 Products’ Sale: 6.00%
31-110 Products’ Sale: 6.50%
111-320 Products’ Sale: 7.00%
321-630 Products’ Sale: 7.50%
631-1570 Products’ Sale: 8.00%
1571-3130 Products’ Sale: 8.25%
3131+ Products’ Sale: 8.50%
For some products like Laptops and computers there is a flat commission of $25/product.
Tips to Earn Money From Amazon:
1) The very first step is to make a website where you will place Ads to sell Amazon products. My suggestion is NOT to make a General website covering different categories. Instead, select a specific niche. For example you can choose electronics category and then choose the sub-category Laptops as your main topic of website.
2) There are many software and plugins that scrap data from Amazon and fill your website pages automatically. The problem with these methods is that you are simply copying the data from Amazon and making a thin affiliate website, that Google don’t like at all. The thin affiliate website is a website with very little or no original content and just fills pages by copying or scrapping the content from other websites. These types of websites used to work few years ago, but this is not the case today. All pages of your website must have fresh, unique and hand written content and you should embed your buy now links within content. You can also add products images that are clickable and take the visitors to amazon site.
If you follow this advice and create unique content on your website, you will get good Google ranking and lots of visitors. And some of your visitors will become the buyers. But if you are going to make another thin affiliate site with all copied scrap from Amazon, then you are not going to be successful. Simple to say “Make a website useful for your visitors and recommend them good related products.”
3) If you want to earn most from Amazon, don’t use other earning methods on your website like Adsense or other affiliate programs.
4) You should use NoFollow tags for all the links that are going to Amazon. Otherwise you will be sending all of your Link Juice and site’s authority to Amazon that will harm your search engine rankings.
I hope that you have enjoyed reading this article that will help you to make money online from Amazon.
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