Make Money With Amazon

I’m sure you’ve already known something about Amazon, it is so popular that even kids know it. There are more and more people using it to buy and sell. This is where money come from. Remember one thing, where there is people, there is money. Here is a guide on making money with Amazon.com, read it carefully and you will be benefit from it.

1. Learn some basic HTML

You have to do this to keep your costs down and still get what you want. Even if the site is basically laid out for you, you’re going to need to know how to insert images, create hyperlinks, and do some basic text formatting. The best place to learn HTML is W3Schools.com, there are tons of tutorials you can learn.

2. Choose your topic

You’re going to be doing product reviews and recommendations, so pick a topic that you enjoy and know something about. If you can’t stay passionate about the topic, that will show, and it also won’t hold your interest. Choose a narrow enough niche to be distinctive, e.g., bands from your city, left-handed guitarists, music for a certain kind of dancing, authors of a certain religion, books about arts & crafts, etc.

3. Choose your domain name and web hosting

Make it keyword-rich, not clever. Think how people will find your site in the search engines. Keep it short and easily remember. For domain name provider, I recommend Godaddy.com, for web hosting, I recommend CirtexHosting.com.

4. Launch your website

You can launch a website in minutes with software like WordPress, which is the best blog software, you will find it is a perfect to build professional blog and you will love it quite soon. After installing WordPress in your server, you can begin to build your niche site.

5. Sign up as an Amazon Associate

It’s simple and free. Just visit Amazon and click on the Join Associates link at the bottom of the page (here’s a direct link for your convenience). Your site should already have at least the basic setup done, even if you don’t have any content there yet. There are many options to make money with Amazon, you can see details in your account after you join them.

6. Create your blog posting bookmarks/links

There are two links that are going to be essential for you to make this easy. First is the blog posting link. In your blog software, on the posting page (see their instructions), at the bottom of the page there should be a “bookmarklet”. Click on the link (and hold the mouse) and drag it up to your Links toolbar in your browser (assuming Internet Explorer), or your Favorites menu. This will allow you to blog a product with one mouse click.

7. Create your Amazon Build-A-Link bookmark/link

This will make it easy to build the link with your affiliate ID built in. Log in to Associates Central, look in the left navigation sidebar, go to Build-A-Link, and under Static Links, find Individual Items. Click and drag this onto your Links toolbar or Favorites menu.

8. Build your first link

Go to Amazon and find the product you want to review. Scroll down to Product Details and find the ASIN or ISBN. Double-click on the number itself to select it, then right-click and choose Copy. Click on your Amazon Build-A-Link link. Right-click in the search field and choose Paste. Change the selection from Served Link to You Host. Click Go. Your selection should show up. Click Get HTML. Choose the kind of link you want, select the highlighted text and copy it.

9. Blog your review

Now click on your blog posting link (Press It! by default in WordPress). If you’re using WordPress, you should now see two pieces of link code in your posting form, the first one ending with “Associates Build-A-Link >< /a >”. Delete through that point. The second part is a link to the product with your Amazon Associate ID built in. Now just write your product review, choose the appropriate categories for it, and hit Publish.

10. Build out your site

Before you promote your site, you need to write some good and useful contents on your site, so others will like them. For example, you can write some product reviews which related to your topic.

11. Promote Your Site

The best free way to do this is to communicate with other bloggers writing about similar topics, and to participate in online communities where your topic is discussed. You can join the biggest blog community Blogcatalog and begin to promote your site to them.

12. Begin To Collect Cash

The left thing you can do is begin to collect cash and put them into your pocket ( deposit into your bank account will be better ).

13. Last word

The better thing of Amazon is that they have a eStore program, you can build your own affiliate shop with it, choose quality products to fill it. It allows you to customize the looking and layout, you can build your very personal eStore with this program. Here is a video tutorial teaching you how to do that:

Now you have all tools in your hand, whether you can make money or not, it all depends on yourself.