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Amazon Affiliate Program ! Is It A Valuable Monetization Option?

Posted by admin | November 8, 2008 .

Amazon is world’s biggest online store with large product catalog and high conversion rate. Amazon.com is also one of the pioneers of affiliate marketing and it is easy to recommend their products because of the reputation of the brand. But still people have mix opinions about Amazon associate program as they offer low commission and quarterly payments.

Strong Points About Amazon Affiliate Program

  • Amazon contains huge number of products in their system from books, music instruments to expensive and luxurious electronics and beauty items.So what ever is your website niche,you can refer products from Amazon.com.
  • There are many ways to link Amazon products especially with site strips you don’t need to go to your associate central, just go to the product page and get your HTML. Moreover you can also include customizable widgets and attractive banner ads on your site. Bloggers have some more linking options as there are many wordpress plugins are available for associates.
  • Amazon offers many payment options to affiliates! you can receive your payments through direct bank transfer, check or through gift cards.
  • Amazon is famous, trusted and well reputed brand that can maximize your referral conversions.

Why Amazon Associate Program Is Not For Every One?

Amazon.com pays very low commission to its affiliates (4%) where as other top affiliate program offers about 20 to 25% commission. You can not expect much with one or two sales, you will have to make sales repeatedly to get some reasonable revenue and ultimately every thing will depend on your traffic. If you make multiple sales of a total value of 1000$ then the commission you earn is 40$, on the other hand side you can easily get 75$ to 100$ per sale with high paying programs.

In short Amazon is a quality monetization option that can add a lot of value to your site but you cannot earn much revenue especially with medium and low level traffic.

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