How to Become an Amazon Affiliate Member and Promoter – Making money on Amazon

by Emmy | Nov 12, 2020 | Amazon, eCommerce Business

After going through this page, by the end, you should have learnt how to become an Amazon affiliate promoter and even start making money from Amazon.

Amazon is the No.1 Affiliate platform to start making money fast. You don’t have to create nor own a single product. Simply by becoming an Amazon Affiliate member gives you access to millions of products to promote and make money.

What Amazon Affiliate Program Means and How it Works

The Amazon Affiliate program, or Amazon Associates, is an affiliate marketing program.  It’s free for website owners and bloggers to become Amazon Associates. Amazon affiliates advertise products from Amazon.com on their sites and social media platforms by creating links. When customers click the links and buy products from Amazon, they earn referral fees.

But sometimes shoppers may only come to view the items on affiliate’s blogs or social media platform and will not buy immediately. Well, there is still hope that the shopper may likely still purchase those items in as much he/she has added those item(s) on the Amazon shopping cart and the earning/credit will also come to the affiliate if the purchase was made within 24hours.

There is a Standard 24-hours and the 90-Days Cookies, and they work differently. See explaination below.

The Amazon Affiliate Cookie – How it Works

The standard Amazon affiliate link gives you 24 hours for a customer to make a purchase, in order for you to earn your due commission.

This means that if a customer clicks your link and orders ANYTHING (almost anything), within a 24 hour window, you’ll earn a commission on those items. It’s a universal cookie, meaning that even if the customer clicks through your link to view a baby stroller, but ends up buying a new kitchen set, some dumbbells, and a ribbon for their dog, you’ll still get paid for all of those items.

Sometimes though, a customer doesn’t immediately order a product, especially if it’s a high-ticket item. To make up for this, Amazon will extend your cookie by another 89 days if the customer adds a product to their cart. In other words, if they add it to the cart and then leave Amazon, you’ve got 89 more days to hope they come back and finish checking out.

See the full Myth of Amazon Cookie and how you can apply it to never lose any commission. Learn more here.

How to Become an Amazon Affiliate Member or Promoter

Make sure that you have an active website, blog, app, Pinterest page, Facebook Page, or YouTube channel. And your approval will be faster enough if you’ve pre-populated that site with content, so it appears active and authentic to both users and Amazon.

In the process of your application, there is a point where you’ll be requested to explain or describe the purpose of your website, the audience you’ll target, and how you’ll bring in traffic.

Once you’ve gotten the above information, the next will be to head over to Amazon main website knoan as Amazon Associates to create the amazon affiliate account.

It’s free and easy too to complete the process. Papharps, the guides below also shows image screenshots to let you know what to expect when you’re creating yours.

How to Sign up for Amazon Affiliate Membership Account

1. Visit the Amazon Associates main page

• Open a new tab on your browser, go to Amazon Affiliate Page also known as “Amazon Associates“.
• Click “Sign Up” or “Join Now for Free” – just as the case may be on your end.

2. Create Amazon account to gain Login ID

Clicking the link above will take you to Amazon login page, but click “Create your Amazon account” to open the first phase of the form.

You will be requested to provide your name, email address, and create a login password into your Amazon affiliate account (and other Amazon accounts you may want to have access to in the future).

3. Enter your account information.

You will need to fill in your information the way you want it to appear on the payout Check. Your Name, phone number, address location, state, zip or postal code, and your country.

Then you can select if the name above will be in charge of collecting the check whenever it arrives. But you will have to select if its a different person – and the information of that person will also be required.

4. Fill your Websites and Mobile Apps.

Here you are meant to enter your website address(es), apps, YouTube channels, Pinterest page, etc.

Please note that these are pages you will be promoting the Amazon affiliate items.

5. Enter your preferred store ID.

You are only allowed to have one Store ID. You can assign the id you want. Usually the same as your primary website name. Note that even when you add a new blog to your amazon Associate account you won’t creating a separate store ID any more because this store ID covers for other sites.

Then explain what your websites hope to accomplish and select Amazon topics your links will likely target.

6. Clarify how you drive traffic to your site.

There are important things Amazon would want you to explain in a simple terms;

• how you drive traffic to your websites,
• how you use your website or apps to generate income,
• how you usually build links, and
• how many visitors your site brings in each month.

The options are there for you to select the best option(s) that explains your practices

7. Provide your phone number.

Enter your phone number and click “Call Me Now,” then wait for the immediate call from Amazon.

A four-digit code will be called out to you, and once that is complete, your account will be approved. Then click “Finish” to complete this process.

8. Choose your preferred payment method.

You’ll choose whether to enter your payment (credit card) and tax ID information in now or later. Then proceed to your dashboard.

9. Start Creating Amazon Affiliate links.

Now you’ve created your account, you’ll be sent to your personal Associate homepage.

And now your dashboard is set you. This is where It’s also you’ll search for relevant products to link to from your content and find your performance dashboard (including an earnings overview, monthly summary, and total clicks).

Click on the link title in case you still need more explanation on “How to Create an Amazon Affiliate Link“.

Amazon Affiliate Login Account

1. Visit the amazon affiliate login page >>HERE<<
2. Enter your email address and password then click on the “Sign In” button
3. A verification code may be sent to your Amazon account registered email, get the code to verify that you’re the owner of the account you want to log in to.
4. Then hit the Sign in button to access your Amazon Associate Affiliate dashboard.

Conclusion:

Always have it in mind that you need a website/blog running already. And create strategic social media pages to enable you to become an Amazon Affiliate Member and a profitable and Promoter.

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