How much money can you really
make by joining Amazon Associates
really? Well, if you realize that
Amazon is quite possibly the
biggest internet retailer in the
world and has an incredibly
trusted brand name, the
possibilities are limitless. If you
can find a way to get your
visitors to click on your referral
link to Amazon, they will
do the rest. Even if they don’t
find exactly what they are looking for (which they probably will) they might find something else. Amazon’s setup encourages visitors to keep traveling through the site by offering them similar products to the ones they are looking at.
How Much Money?
If you have a review website, or occasionally mention products for your visitors, you could make a lot of money online with Amazon Associates. I have personally heard stories of people earning over $14,000 in one month just from Amazon sales. Granted they have had a review blog for several years and tons of pages linked to Amazon, but you get the idea. Anything worth doing takes time.
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The only downside of the Amazon program is that you only have a 24 hour window to generate a sale. After that, you don’t get a commission. This means that you are going to have to attract some impulse buyers or some highly targeted traffic. They have such a good conversion rate that they don’t have to offer a longer cookie for their affiliate program.
Whether you are going to host Amazon referral links yourself, or just supplement your Infobarrel articles (they give Amazon revenue sharing), it is a good idea to join their program.