Monday, January 21, 2008

Amazon Affiliate Makes Bloggers Big Money

Amazon Associates?

Amazon Associates is an affiliate program from Amazon dot come. They provide plenty of ways to make money like adding a wishlist widget, or letting their widget search your content and display products that may be similar to what is offered in your blog or website.

Amazon is such a huge success on the internet, that its affiliate program is very well trusted. You will always get payout when they say they will pay you. Many bloggers make a lot of money selling products using this. I am working on my own new blog that will use amazon. I estimate it will make me about 500 dollars... a week.

Why is Amazon a bad affiliate?

Commission is considered low in comparison to other affiliate programs, however it may increase depending on your performance. It starts out at 4%. If you can sell one of those new electronic book thingys they got, that will nail you a cool 40 bucks though.

So its a great program overall. The draw backs are minor, but if you look past them, this can make you a lot of money on any blog, especially one on product review blog or something similar. I haven't been actively promoting this yet on any of my websites, but as of now, it makes me around 10-20 bucks a week. Pays for coffee! With heavy participation you can get a lot more money


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