tiny bit late today reason being is i had to get my hair done and i just had a one-on-one
and then i popped on with you guys and so uh what we're talking about today is we have got um
uh amazon prime day coming up and so this is big affiliate it's almost bigger than um
affiliate or a black friday okay so when we think of amazon really your big huge days with
amazon are going to be those days that of course everybody's naturally already going to amazon
something that we need to understand about amazon is that they have a 24 hour cookie
and so if you know what a cookie is uh then you're tracking if you don't know what a cookie is
uh in this you know capacity what cookie means is it's the the tracker the little pixel um that
tracks people uh after they have clicked on your link so they click on your link to go to amazon
and then anything that they put in their shopping cart and purchase from amazon within that 24 hours
now mind you if they've cleared their cash or whatever if they have uh deleted their browsing
history then that would also delete this cookie okay so that's that's a thing that you you need to
understand that but most people don't do that that often um so i as long as they have clicked when
they click on your link as long and anything that they have purchased within the next 24 hours you
are going to get a percentage of and so you'll see a lot of amazon affiliates get all haywire crazy
whenever it comes to black friday you know around the holidays is where they get extra crazy because
the likelihood of somebody clicking on one of their links because they're researching toys
to buy their kids and things like that whenever they're researching that they're going to click
on one of those links well shoot anything they buy within the next 24 hours which is likely going to
be some stuff is going to get attributed back to that person and they're going to get a cut of that
okay so uh prime day is kind of like christmas in july can we just call it christmas in july
that's really what prime day is now people that get uh the benefits from prime day have to have
a prime subscription so we're going to be going into how to gracefully be able to cultivate that
while we're talking about other things right and we're going to do that here in the next few
videos that i do but today what i'm really focusing on is the basics where do you get
your link right first of all have you signed up for amazon affiliates that needs to happen okay
if you haven't done that that's that's step one you know obviously obviously so
uh what we're going to talk about today and i'm going to walk you through is where how to find
the link because it has recently changed how to find your affiliate link for things in amazon
and then how to verify that link because i have done this i have accidentally
used the wrong link and i'll tell you how it could happen i've accidentally used the wrong link put
it out in something i was like nobody's buying this like every i got 50 likes on this link i
know people are buying it but it didn't show that anybody was buying it and that's because when i
went to verify the link it was not associated with my account for some reason so whenever we
grab our links we want to make sure that we verify the links before we send them out into the world
sound fair that's what we're going to talk about right now sarah do they need to have purchased the
thing from your link in order to get the benefit nope they just need to have clicked on your link
which is why i like to use low-cost items because it gets them over to amazon and then they'll start
shopping around it's like target right target gets you in with the cheap milk and then you end up
with a shovel and a freaking new amazon fire stick and i don't know a little hot wheels
for your kid you end up with all sorts of weird stuff before you leave target it's the same idea
it's wise not to share really expensive things unless they're really really discounted
in which case you've got you know price to value differentiator where you're just like whoa i
have to do this um anyway that's gonna be in the upcoming videos today we're just looking at links
so here we go uh ding was that my phone or my computer
things are making noises behind me i'm just going to continue so let me go to the interwebs here
here we go okay so here is and i'm just keeping my personal and the reason i have this screen
so little is because i'm uh keeping my personal information private because that's what i do
i'm a mom and i keep my personal information private right we should all do that so anyway uh
how you find your link first of all make sure that you're logged in so when you go to
the way that i log in i seriously take the longest route every single time i do it
i search and i google search amazon affiliates and the very first thing that pops up is where
you log on to amazon affiliates so that's what i do i go there and i log into my account okay
so whenever you're logged into your account what you're gonna do is you're gonna search for the
thing that you're going to share okay so um let's just say well yesterday i shared a fasting book
i'm on day two of fasting by the way i am doing a 30 day water fast you may think i'm crazy and
that's totally cool but i have all the energy in the world and i am now uh like i said almost
40 i'm 40 some hours in and the first three days are the hardest and i'm like what it is not hard
so anyway um let me go to the fasting book so i think it's fasting guide let's just say that in
books okay so what you do a lot of people make this mistake is right now they would
go to because up here is where you get your link so notice it says amazon associates site
stripe so right here where i'm you know circling it get link text what that would do you guys is
it would go to this whole honking page now is that what you want no what we want is we want to click
on the book itself which i totally do suggest this book by the way but you click on the book itself
and then when you're only on the product page you go to get link now
do you want to grab an image freaking no you don't do you want the text and image no
so what we just do you guys is we just use text okay guys just use text i can go into why later
or you could take my hour long master class which is going to make you a master at these things
that is in my group is in the the link is in the description of this video to go into my group
it is pinned to the top this does not mean you need to stay in my group forever if you don't
want to if you want to leave after you watch the class no big deal go ahead and do that but you may
want to stay because there's awesome stuff there but make sure that you take that it's an hour long
class and you'll be making money by tonight okay get link text there it is y'all there is my link
there it is that is what i copy paste into the comments of my post that i made
now if you're like why the comments um please go take the master class uh so
you just copy and paste this link okay so that's what i'll do here i'm gonna copy it
now what i want to do is i want to verify that it's the right link because like i said before
i've used the wrong link before and i lost money and was it maybe 20 bucks yeah but still you know
it was 20 bucks that amazon could have given me instead of keeping in their own pockets
and listen jeff bezos you're cool and all but i'll take my 20 bucks you know what i'm saying
so anyway uh what you do is you just log into amazon associates uh somebody asked earlier
what's the difference between amazon affiliates and amazon associates nothing just the way that
i talk that's really all that it is so what we do is we go under tools here on the top
guess which one you're going to click on i bet you know
link checker so when you click on this you guys you literally are just going
to copy and paste that link that you already copied once and you're going to go to check
link and this one will show up green so success the link tags to a valid tag or sub tag for your
associate id if it doesn't you're going to get a red x here i've seen it before like i said a red x
here and it's going to say that it's not connected in which case you make sure that you're in the
right browser the only way that that can really happen is if you're in maybe an incognito browser
also i am notorious for having a million tabs open the only reason you can't see them right now is
because i'm literally on my husband's computer and he's the opposite of me and so um i have a bunch
of tabs open so it's very likely for me to be logged in or logged out on one browser or another
and so i always go to check my link but also because i don't want to be making a post and then
have it really just go to nothing that's not the point so there you go that is how you check your
link let me go back here hopefully that was super helpful to you guys let me go back to where i can
see me um i hope that was super helpful for you guys this is 101 amazon affiliate find your link
and verify your link now the next couple of days we're going to be going into how to gracefully
be able to share our stuff so people are actually clicking on it and it's not just like
here's a hula hoop here's the link and people are like what is happening over there has
your account been hacked like are you okay you know um blink twice if you need help so anyway
you guys i love you so much i will see you later have the best