How To Start As An Amazon Affiliate: A Step-by-Step Guide

Introduction

Amazon Associates, also known as Amazon Affiliate Program is the largest e-commerce company in the world, there's an awesome opportunity for website owners, bloggers, and all the content creators to earn money by just promoting your affiliate products.

How Amazon Associate Works

If you pick an awesome product of your choice with high market demand, high search volume, and a lower return rate, then you need to get links for the specific product you want to promote and past the products on your website. Whenever someone clicks on your special link and ends up buying something on Amazon you get a fixed commission of 20%. Your commission is based on what they bought.

How to Become an Amazon Affiliate in 5 Simple Steps

STEP 1: Sign up for the Amazon Affiliate Program

At the bottom of the Associates home page, you'll see a Signup button. Go ahead and click the button.

After you've successfully signed up, the next page will redirect you to sign in to the Amazon account you already have. And if you don't have an Amazon account simply tap the " Create your Amazon account" button, and that will lead you to a registration page:

When your account is set, go back to the Amazon Associates homepage and you'll be able to begin completing your actual application to become an affiliate of this great company

STEP 2: Enter Your Personal Details and Website Address

Starting with the account information page, you'll need to provide and double-check your personal details things like your name, address, and mobile number:

At the bottom of the page, you will select the primary contact for the account you are creating. You can decide to be a payee by opting for The payee listed above. Secondly, if there is another contact that can meet the requirements, one can choose the second option.

This is where you can list the web address you intend to use in advertising Amazon products. Go ahead and past the websites, blogs, social media accounts, and mobile applications: any channel where the essence of Amazon will be communicated.

STEP 3: Build your profile

On the profile page, you will be asked to enter information regarding to website, social media, or mobile applications. Before that, start with the creation of your associate's ID. This is either a personal name or the name of your website. Keep in mind: this ID will also show up in your affiliate links.

Next in, steel us about the content you create, and make brief notes on what you create in a few lines. In this way, Amazon gets to see the kind of products you will be promoting.

STEP 4: Select Your Payment Reference

Once you complete your profile, a page will then appear stating that your application is now formally officially in. You'll also receive a few tips concerning using your associate's ID and navigation in the affiliate program.

When the first sale comes through your website amazon will take a look at your application. Just a heads up:  If during the next 180 days, you can't achieve at least three sales, the application is waived off.

STEP 5: Generate Your Affiliate Links

After opening Amazon you need to choose a product you're interested in promoting, once you stumble upon a product you are eager to promote, Amazon Strip Tool steps in:

Amazon offers a couple of options to flaunt the product on your website: Text, image or Text and Image.

If you choose an image option, you will get an HTML code to add to the page or post where you wish to display the product.

If text only is more your jam, you can snag a link instead of the code:

After this, you can promote your products freely on any social media platform.