Sending customers to Amazon can be profitable.
"Make money advertising Amazon Products" reads the heading on Amazon's Associates sign-up page. Websites around the world profit by sending customers to Amazon. You can monetize your website by becoming an Amazon Affiliate. After becoming an Amazon Associate, simply place links to Amazon products on your site. Amazon will pay you when your referrals result in sales. You do not need to be a Web developer to add links affiliate links to your Web pages. Amazon builds the appropriate HyperText Markup Language, or HTML, code for you when you choose products you would like to advertise.
Instructions
Sign Up
1. Visit the Amazon Associates Web page.
2. Click "Join Now for Free." A sign-up page will open. Enter your email address in the text box provided, and click "I Am a New Customer."
3. Click "Sign in Using Our Secure Server" to proceed to the next page. Enter your name and birth date in the designated text boxes. Think of a secure password for your new account, and enter it in the password text box. Click "Continue."
4. Enter your name, address, city, state, ZIP code and phone number in the appropriate boxes, and click "Next: Your Website Profile."
5. Fill out the profile information as requested, and continue to click "Next" as the site walks you through the sign-up process. When you finish, the site will display your "Associates ID" number. Copy this number, and keep it in a safe place.
Create Affiliate Links
6. Decide what you would like to advertise on your website. For instance, if you run a health site, you may wish to advertise books about running. Make a list of keywords related to your desired product category.
7. Click the "Links & Banners" button at the top of the page, and select "Product Links" from the drop-down list. The "Product Links" page opens. This page allows you to choose products that you would like to advertise.
8. Enter one of your keywords, such as "running," in the "Search" box. Click "Go." The site will return a list of products related to that keyword. Prices, photos and descriptions appear next to the products.
9. Review the products and choose one you wish to advertise. Click the "Get Link" button next to that product. The site will open the "Customize and Get HTML" page.
10. Click one of the link types. Choose "Text and Image" if you would like your site to display an image next to the product link. Choose "Image Only" to display an image without text. If you only want text to appear, choose "Text Only."
11. Locate the generated HTML code at the bottom of the page. Click the "Highlight HTML" button. Right-click the HTML code and select "Copy" from the drop-down list.
12. Paste this code into your Web page's HTML code to create your Amazon affiliate link.
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