14 steps to make money with amazon affiliate website

Choose your topic or niche according to your expertise and experience. You should select a niche that has a high volume market demand. Amazon has a varied range of products with multiple categories like books, cosmetics, electronics, electrical gadgets, kitchen items, and so on.

Related topic- Niche marketing strategies: Guide to niche marketing.

You will need a web hosting service to host your amazon affiliate website. But it’s next to nothing for an amazon affiliate marketer. You can get unlimited domain names with a small monthly fee that means you can run several niche-based websites at the same price.

You can select your domain name as your name or company name if you want to grow as a personal brand or a business brand. Another option is you can select a domain name that reflects your niche or topic of the website like CarAdvice, BestMobilePhones, etc.

If you are not a tech-savvy person, the best option for you is to register the domain name with your hosting service provider company. It’s very low cost up to 3 sites. You can select a lower-cost provider like NameCheap or GoDaddy to handle 10 to 15 niche-based websites as per your business growth plan.

WordPress is one of the most popular content management systems (CMS) available in the world. It has a free option and very easy to install on all types of hosts. Most of the hosts give a one-click installation feature for WordPress. WordPress simplified the content publishing process for content creators like article writers and bloggers.

Your website design is a big factor in your business. It shows your tastes, authenticity as well as your brand credibility. WordPress gives a variety of templates to design your website with a luxurious business look.
You can control your website design by customizing it with WordPress plug-ins. Always try to use an email marketing tool so that you can track your visitor’s mail address and build an email list to promote your products and services in the future.

Segmenting into categories and subcategories may help your article or blog to rank higher in the search engines. The higher your blog rank, the better visibility you will have.
Categories and subcategories also help readers to refine their searches more specifically on their needs or interests.

After setting up your website you will need to join the Amazon Associate program. It’s very easy and simple, just search the Join Associate link and click on it. Usually, Amazon visits the website before approving as an associate. It might take some time.
Amazon will suggest you add a disclosure note on your website that you are an affiliate of Amazon and you may get some compensation after each sale without charging any extra cost to the customers. It’s required for keeping transparency and may be required for some countries’ legal measures.

You will see a feature “bookmarklet” (Install Press This WordPress Plugin) at the bottom of your posting page dashboard on your CMS. Click and drag it to the Links toolbar. This process will allow you to update your blog with a single click.

Log in to your Associates Central, at the left navigation sidebar you will see the build-a-link feature, under static links, click on the item and drag it to the Links toolbar. This process allows you to create a link with your affiliate ID.

Inside your associate’s account, select your product you want to promote, then use the gray-colored Site Stripe and create a customized link for this item. Amazon also offers a lot of options to create product links and banner links.

In WordPress, you will see 2 parts of your link code in the posting link. Delete the first part “<Associate build-a-link>< /a >”. The remaining part is the link to the product of Amazon you want to review. Write the review and select the right category. Now you can publish your product review on your website.

You should have a good-looking and informational website before promoting it. The more content you will have on your website, your visitors’ experiences will be better. Don’t publish only promotional content, but publish a variety of valuable and informational content including news, articles, expert interviews, and more.
Try to publish several types of contents like written contents, infographics, video contents, etc. After creating enough contents covering at least 3-4 categories, then you can promote your affiliate website.

Now it’s time to promote your Amazon affiliate website. You can promote your website through different online channels in both ways, paid as well as free. Free options for promoting your affiliate website include joining the same niche communities, giving answers in Q and A platforms, guest posting to other similar websites, and many more.