The problem with blogging is most people don’t tend to earn anything with their blogs at all.

And the reason behind this is they somehow feel that the magic would happen on its own without them doing anything about it. They’re not geared towards a means of earning from their blogs. Amazon is one such way to make a great deal of dough from your sites and in this post I am going to be extrapolating on Amazon affiliate marketing and how you can set things up on this platform for you.

What is Amazon affiliate marketing?

Amazon is a marketplace of products and they host thousands of products in every category imaginable. The products are often delivered within 2 days and have huge discounts going for them.

Amazon associate is their affiliate marketing program through which anyone can set up a site, add reviews about products and start earning fat commissions.

What niche should you choose and how to find whether it’s profitable or not?

The highest commissions are in the home improvement niche. In 2016 Amazon whittled down commissions for most categories. Outdoor sports and home improvement seem to the most lucrative now along with kitchen products.

Then there’s interest or passion that factors in. When you start a niche blog ensure you’re interested in the topics you’re going to write about. Only then would you be able to write in a way that engenders interest from readers.

Because interest often carries you through when you do not have much going on in terms of earnings. As you keep writing this interest should grow further and become a force that drives your blog ahead.

How To Rank your Amazon site

The key is SEO. Bloggers come and go and hundreds of blogs are started and abandoned as quickly as they were started. What keeps something going is technical knowledge.

When you take care of SEO google and other search engines would trust your site more than they do others.

Produce better content

Almost everyone can write thousands of words siphoning off content from product descriptions and reviews others wrote.

But to actually make a dent what you need to be able to do is write review content from experience. This experience that stems out of actually using these products, testing them on different parameters and measuring the results to see what you can come up with. This is key to winning purses and hearts.

Do not copy Amazon reviews directly but instead read them to extrapolate on what you should test after.

People will be more trusting of you when you list both advantages and disadvantages, merits and demerits of the product you’re reviewing.

Always feature products that have lots of reviews meaning lot of people used them. This is called review mining and can provide lots of insight into what you should write about.

Update Regularly.

Update the posts regularly to include month and year. Do this at the start of the month every month you get to take advantage of the recency bit in the search algorithm.

Also include new information in the blog posts that can turn out to be useful to those visiting it. Digging for new stuff when you have dozens of articles can be a pain the ass and doing it every month makes it a chore. But when you get the greenback the effort doesn’t seem wasted at all.

3. Use links with the keyword.

Write satellite topics and use exact match anchors to link to the target blog post with the these keywords.

With this you’re leveraging the link juice present inside the blog to rank target posts higher. Internal linking often gets ignored but that’s tantamount to having a good weapon and letting it rot away because you didn’t know about its presence.

By sprinkling exact match keywords and their variations throughout the post you get to rank higher for the posts.

How To Increase The Conversion Rate

Conversion rate often remains a mystery for bloggers. They don’t think much about it and as a reason it remains hidden out on the horizon. By making the call to actions much more appealing and distinct you’d be able to affect the conversion rate in the right way.

Apparently useless things like button size, colors and other such factors can influence how many clicks those call to actions draw to themselves.

The button size shouldn’t be too tiny so as people don’t even notice what it is about. Also the size shouldn’t be too high so as to take up the entire space. It should be just apt.

Increase the number of call to actions

Buy buttons shouldn’t be limited to textual links alone should also be used for images. Actually not using them on images isn’t an option since according to Amazon’s affiliate agreement you’re bound to use image links from Amazon itself and not download the image and link to it instead.

Getting a click results in a 24 hour cookie on your affiliate code meaning you will get commissions for any products the person buys using your ID.

-Use A Link Localizer

This is for people who see a lot of their traffic coming from other countries where Amazon exists. Countries like UK, some in the EU, and India are where Amazon retails and if you see a large proportion of non-US traffic and traffic from these countries you are losing a boatload of money by not localizing the links.

Even a tiny percentage of traffic when properly utilized can result in a great amount of earnings.

When somebody from the US clicks on the link they’re taken to the us version of the store. From UK the UK version of the store. From Canada the Canadian version of the store.

EasyAzon, Geni.us plugins are different plugins you can use to this end.

Go to niche relevant forums to promote your site. If you’re promoting say drones you will find hundreds of niche-specific forums on the said topic where you can participate in conversations and tell people about your site as well.

Make it easy for people reading your posts to get in touch with or visit your site. Use signatures if they’re allowed on the forums. When people that you’re in there for genuinely helping them it can make a lot of difference in how they see you and guarantee visits to your site in return.