When it comes to monetizing a WordPress website, Amazon affiliates it's a good option. In this tutorial of CourseWpress.com you will learn the basics of Amazon Associates.
What is Amazon affiliates?
The people of Amazon on their website define Amazon Affiliates as a marketing program of ... membership. And not for nothing is it considered one of the most successful affiliate programs on the web.
How does the Amazon affiliate program work?
The dynamics behind a affiliate program like Amazon is simple. It is based on paying on commissions by sales generated.
In other words: they pay you a percentage of the price of the product, when it has been sold thanks to you.
How do they know that a product was sold because of you?
Easy.
When you register for the program from its website:
affiliates.amazon.es
The platform assigns you a unique ID, this ID will identify the products that are sold from your affiliate link.
Affiliate link?
Yes, an affiliate link is a link or Url from the page of a product on Amazon that at the same time carries your affiliate ID.
The affiliate links in most cases they are displayed as text. These are the typical links what do you usually see under some anchor text with hook.
Although at the same time there are affiliate links that can be inserted in the form of banners. And despite its eye-catching — come on, a banner looks more than text — it doesn't work as well as one might expect.
Text type links continue to be more effective.
Copywriters, one; designers, zero.
How do I sign up for Amazon Affiliates?
Signing up for the Amazon affiliate program is easy.
Of course, before you must have one amazon account.
Registration in the affiliation system is managed through:
Or from:
Click on:
Join for free or Join now for free, if what you like is the Anglo-Saxon Amazon.
You add all the data that Amazon requests, the address of your website or your websites:
Important fact: Your website or blog must have quality content and in considerable quantity.
How much is a considerable amount?
It varies according to which cases. But Amazon will reject your site if you only have one Article on your blog.
How to have Amazon Affiliates in WordPress?
The first thing is to have a website, blog or platform with content.
If you are a regular at CourseWpress.com Surely you already have a good blog, assembled with quality articles. The next thing is to register in the Amazon program and, once you have signed up for the program Amazon Associates You only need to show the Amazon products that you intend to promote on your blog. To achieve this we have several tools that we explain below.
Amazon Affiliate WordPress plugins and tools
Amazon Associates Link Builder
It is the official plugin that Amazon makes available to us to display products with affiliate links on our website.
This plugin is gratuitous, you can install it from the WordPress plugin repository. In the link below:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/amazon-associates-link-builder/
In case you don't know how to install a plugin, we prepare this tutorial for you:
Plugins in WordPress: what they are and how to install them
This plugin is guaranteed to be a official product from Amazon. And although it is still in beta phase, has more than 40,000 active installations and with it you will be able to:
- Create product links your affiliate ID link.
- Access real-time information on products such as: price, characteristics, descriptions,
- Create product links not only in text form but at the same time in banners or in widgets.
Amazon Auto Links - Amazon Associates Affiliate Plugin
What an automation plugin affiliate links does is get rid of the task (difficult for more), of looking for links of products manually. Imagine having to search for products in Amazon to add them to your website by hand. One by one. Not only is it difficult, but at the same time it is a somewhat useless exercise. Every time Amazon updates the price of the product, make a discount or promotion you will have to update it again. Not to mention that you must remove it in case Amazon has run out of stock.
This is a simple and powerful plugin that takes care of managing Amazon affiliate links.
The advantage that AmazonSimpleAdmin about other plugins in the same category is that it makes it possible to show the links from almost anywhere on the page or post:
- Before or after the certain paragraph
- Before or after certain content or image.
- Enter post, images, paragraphs or comments.
- Etc…
Other plugins that will help you
There are tons of tools in WordPress that make affiliate marketing work easier. Apart from the plugins listed above, we recommend that you look and try the following:
- ThirstyAffiliates Affiliate Link Manager
- Ad Inserter - WordPress Ads Management with AdSense Header Integration.
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