So you want to make money from amazon Associates You may have seen some people out there Claiming to get rich from it But are they legit and does this method Still work And more importantly can you actually do It In this video i’ll answer all those Questions plus i’ll give you a clear Seven-step action plan for how you can Make money with amazon associates But first i just want to say that i’ve Been doing affiliate marketing since 2008 I’ve built and sold multiple online Businesses And i’ve made well over seven figures From amazon associates And i’m saying this not to brag but to Warn you you need to be careful who you Take advice from on this topic I’ve seen a number of guides out there Advocating tactics which break the Amazon terms of service And can get you banned now with that Said here is my seven step guide to make Money from amazon associates Number one choose a niche that will Actually work for amazon associates Now pay attention closely here because If you get this wrong then None of the other steps are going to Work for you now how do we find niches
That work on amazon Well we look for evidence of sites in That niche that are commercially Successful In my first few years of doing this i Spent forever trying to come up with Brand new niches and topics No one had ever covered before and i Came up with the Not so wise idea to start a site about Micro Sim card cutters these were three dollar Devices that would let you Cut down an old full-size sim card into Micro sim card size Nobody was doing it so i jumped right in And i even ranked Number one within a few months and Here’s an archive shot of the content of That site back then Pretty bare bones but you know what i Never even made more than ten dollars Per month from it The products themselves sold for about Three dollars which meant My commission was less than 20 cents and The truth was Hardly anyone needed them or bought them So the lesson here is Don’t try to invent a new niche most Likely that’s not going to be Commercially viable Instead find an existing niche that you Know works because there are
Commercially successful Sites in it go on a site like problogger Jobs where commercial websites Advertise to recruit writers see what Kinds of sites you can find Out there most of them have their name Listed below the job heading Today for example we can see there’s a Cooking site here We have this outdoor site which covers Of hiking camping even skiing There’s a pet site here oh and here’s a Really interesting one on Pressure washers now obviously we want To go and look at these niches in a Little bit more detail After we generate the idea use this Approach to generate a list of Commercially viable Niche ideas then go through each of them Look at the type of competition in that Niche As well as evaluating your own personal Interest in getting into that niche You can expand on this tactic further by Looking for anywhere where commercially Successful websites Will post some kind of listing a good Example would be flippa or Empireflippers.com Where commercially successful sites are Advertising themselves for sale And even if you don’t know the exact Website from all of these listings you
Can still get a really good idea of what Is going to be commercially successful Once you’ve chosen a niche move on to Step number two which is Build an affiliate site you’re going to Want to build a website so you can Attract visitors to it from Google and then you can send these Visitors through to amazon and make a Commission Every time a visitor clicks on one of Your affiliate links and goes through to Amazon They are tracked using cookies no not The chocolate chip cookies that you had For lunch But web tracking cookies amazon uses These to understand if someone buying a Product was referred By you and then we’ll pay you a Commission for it now back when i Started doing this Building a website was actually quite Difficult and you needed a lot of Technical knowledge But these days it’s super easy you don’t Need any coding Programming or even design skills to Create a fantastic looking website So here are the steps to build your Website first you’re going to need a Dot-com domain name Here are a few of my friends websites We’ve got epicgardening.com
Expertphotography.com and jewelry.com Notice that they’re all dot coms and Also notice that they all sound Very authoritative and educational like We’re actually going to get some value And learn something if we go visit them Avoid anything that’s not.com avoid Hyphens Avoid numbers and avoid anything that Just sounds a bit scammy i’m thinking Something like Buy cheap iphones dot info i would never Click on that website next you’re going To need some hosting and i just want to Say right here that if you’ve ever read A guide about building a website and They’ve recommended you To use bluehost to host your website They do not have your best interests at Heart Bluehost actually pay the highest Affiliate commission for people Recommending them As a hosting company in my experience Bluehost are not the best hosting Company for beginners The company we use is siteground.com It’s about 16.00.com domain name at About 6.99 per month for the first year For your hosting Their setup process is super easy just Click start a new website And then click wordpress wordpress is a Free content management system that
We’ll be using Think of it as like the foundations or The walls of your house You can customize what it looks like and Feels like inside and Outside but you need these foundations And this structure to hold everything Together You’re also going to need a wordpress Theme to help you structure the design Elements now there are tens of thousands Of themes out there But the truth is that these days a theme Is not nearly as Important for the design of your site Than it used to be These days you want a fast flexible Theme that lets you customize things the Way you want My two go-to themes are generate press And cadence Now i want to let you in a little secret Here i Suck at web design like i’m really Really bad at it So how can someone like me create Amazing looking websites Well i cheat i use a number of Tools that do all of the graphical Design work For me first i use coolers dot co This is a free color picking tool which Will help you to create A beautiful color palette which goes
Together And you can use across your site there’s A random generator where you can lock in Colors you like And it will automatically pick good Colors that match that Or you can explore some popular color Combinations that other people have Already chosen Steve jobs was famously picky about Using beautiful fonts Now you can be too you can use font joy Which is a free Font picking tool it works the same way Coolers does where you can lock in Different fonts that you like and it’ll Pick other fonts that go with that My recommendation is to pick something That looks modern that’s most likely Going to be a sans-serif font Which means the font doesn’t have these Little things on it and finally Canva will do 99 of the graphic design Work you’re ever likely to need for your Site It can do logos featured images and just About anything else you’re likely to Need There’s a pro version available for ten Dollars a month but start with a free Version it’ll take you most of the way If you want to see a super detailed Guide for all this site setup stuff then Check out this post on authority hacker
Where we go into a lot more detail about All of these steps and by the way if You’re watching this on youtube Make sure you subscribe to our channel More than half of you watching this Aren’t actually subscribed yet so do us A favor Click the subscribe button and ring that Little bell for us please The third step is to sign up to amazon Associates it’s very important that you Only do this After you’ve chosen your niche and built Your site it’s really simple just go to Associates.amazon.com and click Sign up you’ll need to log into your Normal amazon account if you have one or Create one if you don’t have one yet Then go through the various steps to Register for amazon associates You’ll need to enter your payment Information as well as your website Url and enter a description of what your Website does You’ll be asked to create a store id This is kind of like a public username For amazon associates So fill in the rest of the fields on the Forms be truthful for example you Probably don’t have any traffic to your Website So just be honest and select this option Now one cool thing about amazon Associates is you actually get
Commission For any product that someone purchases On amazon Even if it’s not the direct product that You recommended them to buy My friend kate who runs parked in Paradise recently made 240 dollars when Someone bought a metal detector through One of her links Now her site has nothing to do with Metal detectors at all so that was a Nice bonus Once you’ve been through and signed up To amazon associates you’re in You now have 180 days in order to make Three sales on the program after that Point If you make those three sales amazon Will manually review your site and just Make sure that you adhere to all the Quality guidelines that they’ve set out One really important thing here is make Sure you have the amazon disclaimer Featured on every page of your site Either somewhere at the top of a post In the footer in the sidebar somewhere That is visible on every single page of Your site Step four is publish commercial content Commercial content is content which Talks about Products which are for sale on amazon Now you’ve probably seen a lot of Commercial content yourself
When you’re researching products you’re About to think about purchasing Think of single product reviews best of Or Roundup reviews versus posts or Alternatives posts these are all Examples of commercial content Now single product reviews can be very Very lucrative But also very competitive let’s take This example of best Vacuum cleaners notice all these big Sites targeting this keyword We’ve got multiple national newspapers Here as well as some hugely popular Authority sites I would not want to be competing with These guys with my brand new site But let’s look at this other keyword bob Sweep versus roomba You can see first of all that there’s no National newspapers here And most of the sites are really on Topic they’re about vacuum cleaners Many of them are also fairly new Websites too now of course Far fewer people are going to be Searching for this keyword than best Vacuum cleaners But by targeting this lower competition Keyword And actually having a chance to rank for That keyword It gives us an opportunity to make some
Money early on Now when it comes to actually creating Content my best piece of advice i would Say is consider Search intent think of what the person Who’s typing this keyword in Already knows and don’t repeat the same Information to them Give them the information that they now Want to learn That means don’t tell them what a vacuum Cleaner is if you’re doing a vacuum Cleaner review They probably already know you can get a Lot of insight to this by Looking at the pages which are currently Ranking for that keyword Google is serving those results because It thinks that these are the most Relevant results To that query so they’re obviously doing Something right So go through all those posts and list Out everything they’re covering and make Sure that your article addresses All of those points as well remember We’re not trying to copy the existing Articles that are ranking that’s not Going to work What we’re trying to do is make Something better that still touches on All the relevant points that they’ve Identified before Step number five insert amazon
Associates links Now this part is easy just make sure That you’re logged into amazon Associates Then when you navigate to amazon.com You’ll see this site stripe bar appear At the top of your browser You can go to almost any product on Amazon.com and click up the top To get a text link make sure you use the Full link And not the short one you’ll thank me Later when you come to sell your site And transfer it to new owner Then simply copy that link go over to WordPress where your article is Select the text you want the link to be And then Paste that link on there and it’ll Automatically create that link for you It’s best practice these days to add a Rel equals sponsored Tag to your link for these types of Links as well you generally want to be Adding affiliate links at the very start At the very end and the first time you Mention a new product Within your article now don’t worry too Much about the fancy Tables that you see on a lot of sites Have you can add these in Later as your site starts to grow you’ll Probably want to add images too Just a word of warning here don’t
Download the images from amazon then Upload them to your article Amazon doesn’t like you doing this and You can actually get banned for it Instead what you need to do is create a Hot link to an image Using site stripe you’ll definitely want To use the larger image sizes here and Even the biggest ones are Not that big so you have to be a little Bit creative about how you fit them into Your article Wrapping text around the image and Aligning to the left or right Can help things look better step number Six use Search engine optimization to grow your Site seo is a mix of Niche and keyword research on page Optimization And link building links are like votes When you create a website with some Content on it You’re saying to google hey i have this Piece of content about This topic and google knows that because It comes to your site and it Checks it out but it doesn’t yet know if It can trust what you’re saying The way it establishes trust is to look At which other websites on the internet Are linking to your website Generally speaking the more websites That link to you and certainly the
Higher quality websites that link to you The better so how do we get lots of high Quality sites to link to us Enter harrow harrow stands for help a Reporter out It’s a free three times per day Newsletter Where journalists and publishers are Looking for sources To answer questions for their articles Now for many of these you don’t even Need to be a topic Expert you just need to be someone who Has an opinion about a topic When your answer gets used you’ll get a Link out of it here’s a query i answered Recently Asking for book recommendations and Here’s the response i sent back to them Notice i’m getting straight to the point And i’m writing in such a way that if The journalist wants to They can copy and paste one or several Of my paragraphs And use them directly in the article and That’s exactly what this journalist did Here is the live link so here we are Step number seven The winning formula now the winning Formula to make your site really take Off Is stick to the basics and execute Repeatedly That means more content and more links
That’s really All you need to do avoid shiny object Syndrome here And focus on the core of what makes this Business model work That is content and links along the way You can make small improvements to Various parts of your process For example you can add in those Graphical tables at the top of your Commercial content Or you can improve your site speed but Just understand that all of those things Are just tweaks or optimizations that Are going to Improve things by a few percent here or There the Underlying driver of what is going to Make your business successful Is content and links and if you’re doing Those two things then Consistency and time is all it takes to Be successful Now to set some expectations here most Likely you’re not going to make much Money In the first six months this is a Marathon not a sprint we’re building a Real business here And that takes time the first dollar is Always the hardest But if you can make one dollar then you Can make ten thousand And remember the amazon sites sell for
Around 40 times what they make each Month So a site making ten thousand dollars a Month is actually worth about Four hundred thousand dollars which is a Serious amount of money So guys i hope you enjoyed this video if You want a more detailed guide to Everything i’ve talked about here And more go check out the accompanying Blog post i wrote i’ll link to it Up here and in the description of this Video now that you’ve watched this video You know how to do it it’s on you Go and get started [Music] You