Amazon Associate Program

Today, I have registered Amazon Associate program to enhance my chances of earning some money from my blogspot blog. This post is going to take an overview of the Amazon Associate program, its main features, benefits and usage.

I am using blogger platform for blogging so this post is specifically targetted to integration between Amazon Associates and blogger. From blogger, its literally few clicks to enable Amazon Associate on your blog and start advertising Amazon products on your site with links, banners and widgets from Amazon.

Amazon claims that its associate program is one of the first online affiliate programs launched in mid 90’s. The associate program works when webmasters or bloggers create links and ads through which customers click, visit Amazon to buy prodcucts from Amazon and endless.com, as a result associates earn referral fees. The referral fees can go as high as 15% which is quite tempting.

Banners, links are available for refreshing and stylish ads to present Amazon products to targetted audience. Amazon also provides an option to create a professional online store in few minutes which can also be linked to an existing website.

Slideshow Widget, Deal Widget, Wish List Widget, MP3 Clips Widget , Amazon Video on Demand Movie and TV Preview Widget are few of the more popular widgets.

Reports can be tracked on daily basis and best of all, this amazon associate program is free.

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Two noteable sites and and their description in the post is as follows:

PlanbookEdu.com – This is a site for school teachers, designed to make their lesson planning easier. It originally launched in January of 2003 and the new version was re-launched this past July. There are currently over 3000 registered users, with 171 paying $20/year for premium features. That works out to $3420 for 2008. In 2007 there were 84 paying users ($1680). The only marketing I did this past year was sending an email to the registered users announcing the new version.

RSStalker.com – This site gets approximately 50 hits a day from actual users…and over 50k hits a day from various RSS aggregators. Once a user has setup their feed there is no reason to go back to the site. If they buy a product using a link in the feed I get a commission from Amazon. In 2007 RSStalker sold 1049 items, generating $68,368.62 in revenue for Amazon and $3,358.20 in commission for me. The 2008 numbers are very similar: 1070 items, $76,875.06 revenue, $3,675.17 commission. Not much growth, but considering the economy that’s not too bad. Plus in 2007, two orders of 30 iPods each accounted for almost $700 in commission.

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