hey guys and welcome to blog tip tuesday where i share helpful blog tips every single tuesday
in today's video we are going to talk about how to make money with the amazon affiliate program
like four to five thousand dollars per month stay tuned so i can tell you guys all about
it and everything not to do so you don't get kicked out of their program which is pretty
easy to do and just so you guys know i make the most money on my blog with affiliate marketing
and it is my absolute favorite way to make money online amazon associates was the very first
program where i made money with my blog and i made a whopping 59 cents and honestly that was all the
motivation i needed to say okay this blog thing can really work just to know that someone trusted
what i said clicked on my referral link and made a purchase was everything after that i was hooked
and a year later i made six figures with affiliate marketing now for those of you who are
not familiar with affiliate marketing it is when you refer a product or service to someone using
a unique referral link if they make a purchase using your link you earn a commission let me give
you an example of how the amazon affiliate program works so say for example someone reads one of my
articles they click on a product i recommend from amazon now it's going to be my referral link which
i'm going to show you how to do it in a second but it takes them to the amazon website if they make
a purchase within 24 hours i get a commission because i caused that reader to visit amazon's
website and they made a purchase and do you know what i love most about amazon's affiliate program
so say that reader said oh yeah let me buy some pots for sally's open house coming up or whatever
i will also get a commission on those pots and anything else she buys and if that reader doesn't
even purchase the product i recommend it but still buy something else during their visit when they
click on my link within 24 hours i still earn a commission and as many of you know you can buy
practically anything on amazon so the higher the price or the more things they buy the more money i
earn this is amazon's way of saying thank you partner here's a little kickback for bringing
people to my website and encouraging them to make a purchase but they are not that generous because
they offer one of the lowest commission rates out there when the pandemic hit they slashed their
commission rates to almost nothing here is a chart of their current commission rates now they put
products in categories so think about some of the things that you recommend to get a general idea
about what your commission rate will be now i know the chart is pretty small so i will put a
copy in the description below so you can check it out after this video now when amazon slashed
their commission rates many bloggers gave up on them but i can't and i won't because
each month more than 197 million people visit amazon and of those 112 million people are amazon
prime subscribers which means that they can get most products in a day or two with free shipping
and it also means if they need to purchase something they are most likely going to try
and purchase it from amazon because they can get it so quickly i know because that's what i do
and even if you don't use amazon it doesn't matter to make money you need to think about what
platform most people are going to buy from because you're not writing for yourself you're writing for
other people so even though they have crazy low commission rates you still can make a living off
of this affiliate program alone because my good friend debbie gardner she makes a consistent four
to five thousand dollars per month with amazon commission now i'm going to discuss how to do that
shortly but let's first talk about how to actually apply for the amazon affiliate program and a
tip that most people don't know so to first apply to amazon's affiliate program go to this link and
i'll put it in the description below so you can just easily click on it now you want to go through
the process of signing up the one requirement that you need to have in order to apply to the
amazon associates program is that you need to have a functional website now if you don't have
a website i'll link my step-by-step guide in the description below so you can check it out follow
it create your website and it is pretty easy to do i really do have to tell you guys now when you are
putting in your information you want to make sure that you link both your website and all the social
media accounts you're going to use when you're promoting your amazon links this is very important
once you're signed up you are in the program for a trial period until you have three qualified
sales so qualified sales mean that you need to have at least three people purchase from one of
your affiliate links within the first 180 days so once you apply the clock starts ticking the race
is on to get people to purchase from your links now if you don't get enough sales by 180 days
you will get rejected but you can always apply again and try again but let me tell you something
trying to get your friends and family to click on your links and purchase from amazon
it doesn't work trust me i tried it i have no idea how they know who your friends and family are
but they know so don't even waste your time trying to go that route and trying to get those three
qualified sales from people you actually know they have to be from strangers so once you officially
get in the program amazon's going to ask you for your social security number for tax purposes but i
don't like giving my social security number out to anyone and you shouldn't either so to avoid this
if you live in the united states you can apply for an ein number which is an employee identification
number with the irs completely free very easy to do all you have to do is go to the irs.gov
and click on i'm going to show you guys right here it's going to say apply for an employee id number
just click on that and go through the process and they will auto populate you your own
unique employee identification number now once you have that number you want to use that for
any and all affiliate programs that you start to apply to okay so once you get in the program
even for your trial period you're going to need to know how to get amazon links to use on your posts
so let me go ahead and show you right now from my computer okay so when you first join the amazon
associates affiliate program you want to go to tools and then go to download site stripe once you
have it on your computer and every time that you go to amazon you will now see something that looks
like this and this is what site stripe is now this is one of the products that i want to recommend on
my website so i'm simply going to go if i want to just get the text where someone would just click
on the text i'm going to show you if i click on text copy this link put in my blog article
here's an example right here where i did that i just click on it and then it will automatically
take me to amazon now cookies are going to start tracking this so if that user makes a purchase
or puts anything else in their shopping cart i'm going to get a commission for that because they
are using my unique referral link same thing if they i want to get an image i can go right here
to image again a small version medium or large i can copy that information right here and put
it in my blog article and it will appear there same thing if i want to get a text and image
i could do that as well so these are your options and this is how you can easily implement this into
your blog articles okay now that you know how to apply and insert links into your articles you need
to make sure you don't make these mistakes so you won't get kicked out of the program now the first
thing you need to do is make sure that you're using proper disclosures so whenever you use
your amazon affiliate links you need to properly disclose that these are amazon affiliate links
so i have a very helpful article i'll put in the description below so you can easily just copy and
paste the verbage and put it in your blog post so you will be remaining in compliance with amazon
you can also get kicked out of the program if you use amazon links in places other than your blog or
social media accounts so like your emails ebooks courses closed facebook groups you have to have
your links in a place that amazon can actually crawl those links and they can't do it in those
places that i just mentioned now you also can't share prices in your blog post about the amazon
prize that you're recommending so the way that i get around this is by saying and this product
is so great it's under 20 or something like that i'm not saying what the price is i'm just saying
you know the range and that is acceptable okay so now that you know how to apply get your links
and what not to do now here's the part where you can learn how to make money with amazon and it's
all about having a strategy so like i mentioned before how my friend debbie gardner is making a
consistent four to five thousand dollars per month in amazon commissions and it's all because of the
types of articles she writes the way she writes her articles using her amazon links and just
her overall strategy to getting traffic to those articles now for those of you who don't know who
debbie gardner is she is the one who taught me all about seo through her ebooks and that is how i now
get over 200 000 pages per month and was able to make six figures the second year i started my blog
so now whenever she comes out with a new product i purchase it she created this ebook on revamping
your old articles and how to revive them i purchased that and do you know what happened my
articles that were losing rankings in the search results they went back up so when she came out
with another product about how she makes four to five thousand dollars per month with amazon i just
got that and that is why i'm doing this video you know how you learn something new and you just want
to share with somebody who cares well for me that's you guys and this new e-course she just
created is gonna be another game changer for me and i know it could be the same thing for you guys
so in the e-book she covers the types of articles that you should write if you want to drive sales
to amazon better ways to get that click which is everything they need to click on to get to amazon
buyer intent user intent has to use links in email and pdf legally which for me is gonna be a game
changer because i'm focusing on email a lot more this year tips on holiday posts how to get better
conversions how to use and analyze tracking ids for more growth now i had no idea how to do any
of this stuff but now i do and that is why i'm sharing this with you guys she gives a ton of her
top tips in this book and i know if you implement her strategies you can have the same success that
she is and it's only 67 that's one of the things that i love about her is that she doesn't charge
an arm and a leg for stuff like this because she knows that most people can't afford it and
my whole mindset has changed just about purchasing products and courses when someone told me how are
you going to expect someone to invest in a product that you're recommending if you can't even invest
in yourself so by continuing to invest in myself i'm going to make more money and if you guys have
been following me for a while you know that i don't recommend a lot of courses or anything like
that because you can find a lot of information on the internet for free and i'm only going to
recommend things to you guys that is worth the money and also remember this is a tax write-off
so remember to keep all your receipts for anything you spend money on in regards to your blog so i'm
gonna put her e-course in the description below so you guys can check it out and i hope this video
gave you something to think about and if you use the amazon affiliate program today i'd love to
know how it's working for you are you doing pretty well or is this something that you want to make
more money in and if you don't are you interested in using the amazon affiliate program let me
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