When it comes to making money online as an affiliate the first place most people go to see if it will work is Clickbank and that is their first problem. Most people go to Clickbank to find affiliate products and the biggest problem with this is they can’t find a product that converts well that is not being promoted by each and every affiliate marketer out there. My advice is to use Amazon as your affiliate program of choice and the reason is because you will be able to make more money a lot quicker this way.
The first thing you need to do in order to make money as an Amazon affiliate is start a website that is based on a general product. For this article we are going to use mens electric shavers as our product just so you can get an idea of how you can make money. Now that you know what you are going to promote and you have a website to promote it from you need to establish a goal and to start we are going to begin with 20 dollars. The reason I choose 20 dollars is because that should be around 4 items sold per day which means you will need to get around 200 website visitors to your site.
How to set up your website
The first thing you need to do is setup your website and in order to do this you want to create a homepage that has 3 links to your Amazon affiliate page with all the different shavers on it. My suggestion is to make a homepage that is around 600-800 words in length and make it very appealing to read.
The next thing you will want to do in order to stuff your site with great content is write 10 more articles and make them each a different page. The reason why you need to do this is so people have more to read then just one 600 word article. What I suggest doing is on the bottom of each page you should put a link back to your homepage that way people will always be able to have a way to click on your affiliate link.
The final thing you need to do to your website is write at least 3 articles each week and post them into your websites blog. The reason why you need to do this is to keep search engines coming back for more content and to show people that this site is not stagnant and it has more than just what you read last week.
How to make 20 dollars per day
The very last thing you will need to do once your website is all done is write at least 5 articles each week for the first 2 months and submit them to article directories. The reason why you need to do this is to get some backlinks out there and to get some traffic flowing back to your site. What most people don’t understand about this method is that it all comes down to the unique content you are writing and the amount of articles that you put out each week. My advice if you want to make money quickly is to write more articles than just 5 per week, try writing at least 5 a day and see where that gets you.
Brendan
10. Apr, 2012
Do you write all the articles on the object you are promoting(mens electric shavers)?? Or do you promote a different product an article(eg. iPhone one article then a book another article)
Just wondering can you give me a name of one of these sites to give me a better idea.
Thank you.
Adam
10. Apr, 2012
Brendan,
When I write for promotional purposes I write on any topic that will be easy to rank for on Google. For instance, some times I will write about a “Black mens shaving machine” while other times I will write about “Yellow multi-speed blenders”. The trick is to find words that people are searching for without much competition so that you can get organic traffic from Google, Yahoo and Bing. This method will require a decent amount of articles but I have noticed that after 100 article I started to see at least one sale each day and that has kept up for around 8 months so far.
If you need any more help just comment below and I will be glad to walk you through my process a little bit more.
Adam
Brendan
11. Apr, 2012
What’s the name of your website and for the articles are you just describing the product in your own words?? And how long those the article have to be?
Adam
11. Apr, 2012
Brendan,
For security reasons I don’t like to give out my site names. But all you need to do is just write an article without a product in mind each time and publish it with 3-4 links to Amazon and its products. The articles that I write are all 400 words long, this way you have no more than 1 link per 100 words.
Do you already have a site that you are working on? If you do, just let me know what it is in the comment section below and I will check it out and then delete your comment as opposed to publishing it. This way I can help you get your site setup the right way.
Adam