Become an Amazon affiliate with your blog

There are a large number of ways to bring in revenue with your blog. Of which advertising is the most common method. However, with companies like Amazon, you can also recommend products through your website. On which you can earn a commission. In this article we explain how this works.

Amazon is one of the largest internet department stores in the world. Here people can order anything from the latest book to the biggest television. Since they are active in the Netherlands, you can now also become an affiliate for this marketplace. But which steps are required to do so? And how does this work exactly? It can be done as follows.

Create an Amazon account

To become an Amazon partner, you need to create an account for Amazon. You can do this directly via the following link. Then follow the steps indicated to become a member. This Amazon account can then be used to place personal orders on Amazon. Or to subscribe to Prime.

Register your website on the affiliate network

After you have successfully completed the steps to create an Amazon account, you can start by signing up the website to the network. Make sure that in addition to just filling out the website, you also include a clear description of what your website or blog is about and what topics you cover.

This prevents your website from being rejected because of insufficient information.

Cookie, purchase and revenue

Affiliate earnings work by including links on your website, once a visitor clicks on them they are redirected to Amazon. A cookie is then created for the session. This cookie is valid for 24 hours, after which it expires and it is no longer relevant whether a visitor makes a purchase or not. You no longer earn on it.

As soon as a purchase is made through your link on Amazon, this will be added to your affiliate account. With this affiliate account you can see in the reports how many clicks there have been, how many products have been ordered and which ones. And once they are shipped you will receive a percentage of this. This percentage is between 1% and 10%. It depends on the product you manage to sell.

Putting links and advertisements on your website

To use Amazon's affiliate network on your website you can use the tools that Amazon offers for this. This is Sitestripe as it's called with them. And it allows you to link to any product or page, which is then automatically tracked. In your hosting itself, all you have to do is place that link.

There are also intelligent ads available that allow you to show a nice, and relevant, ad on your website. For example, if you have a product group on your website that you are talking about. Then you can have ads shown of the popular products in that target group. And thus possibly reach more people just by placing a link.

180 days to generate 3 purchases

Once you are through the process the counter runs, you have 180 days to generate 3 purchases through your links. Have you not generated any purchases after those 180 days? Then your account will be rejected and deleted. So it is important that you do get this.

That is why it is often not advisable to become an Amazon affiliate when starting your website. But then to register it at a later stage. This way you avoid having to do the whole process again. And thus save yourself a rejection.

Furthermore, Amazon is a good way to generate income from your website. Since the conversion rate is very high on websites like Amazon. There is something for everyone. And Amazon does a great job of converting you into a paying customer.

Are you using affiliate networks to generate revenue in addition to the familiar ads? We would love to hear about it! Anyone can generate income from a website in many ways.