How to Make $4k-$5k per month CONSISTENTLY with the Amazon Affiliate program in 2021
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 know in the comment section below if you like
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