Ok. You want to make money with Amazon and possibly start getting some payments from blogging right?
Alright. In this article I am going to go through the steps you are going to need to take in order to put yourself in a position to start making commission checks from Amazon.
Remember I cannot guarantee anything will work and I am also not making any income claims but this is what I have done for years and Amazon has treated me well.
Let’s start at the beginning as to picking what you will be writing and or blogging about. If it is something as huge as making money online or learning how to play poker, you can forget about this idea of getting paid from Amazon right now.
Those topics are simply too large and way too competitive. You might be thinking but yea that is where all the money is right? Where all the competition is right? Well yes but there is money also where nobody is looking.
The fact is yes and no. If I had to choose what to do all over again I would have started in a smaller area instead of SEO and Business Marketing. There are many smaller niches that can be taken advantage of and in the next few paragraphs I will go over how I choose my niche websites. This will be a condensed version of my article on keyword research.
First start out with the broad part of your topic. Let’s say it’s art for example. Art can be classified in many different way’s and if you are going to start a blog about how much you enjoy art and are expecting to receive commissions from Amazon, you are going to have to become a little more specific. From that broad section of art , choose a topic inside of that umbrella that you seem to enjoy the most. It could be anything from painting, etching to even sketching, but you are going to want to whittle the idea down.
Let’s move on and say you have picked sketching and you want to start from there. That is a great starting point and sketching can be broken down even further. In order to make profits from the Amazon.com website it will help if your articles are catered to the products that Amazon carries.
One of the first things I would do is gravitate towards the history of sketching and how it first came about. Next you can move on to the different types of strokes the pencil. Cover everything that you can think of and when you are done you can check out the Google KW Planner and see what is suggested there.
I have found that when looking to receive payments from Amazon I will not only make the items available for purchase along the side of the website, but I will integrate them into the content as well with contextual ads. I have found greater success by talking about a specific item and it’s uses then by just having a banner up.
This has to do with the psychology of the internet user now days’ as they are constantly being bombarded with marketing messages, so they get what is commonly referred to banner blindness.
When using this type of affiliate marketing model you will want to make sure that what you are writing about has some commercial intent behind it. The mindset I have when putting together one of these websites is number one, how big is the affiliate marketing industry in this specific niche and number two would be, how can I teach while offering products to give me commissions at the same time?
When you go into building your website with those questions in mind it will help you make a more informed decision. So let’s talk about where the selling will happen. For me, you know I like to place affiliate marketing links within my content but it is the way that I do it that is so effective.
Sticking with the art subject, if you are writing about some famous sketch artist you could carry on a bit about his life and what his childhood was like. Then when you would come to the part of the article where you began speaking about his artworks and how they had become created you could also mention in the article that the same quality of paper is available at (Your Affiliate Link) and just continue on.
It is casual and un intrusive and even if you list it at the bottom again to remind the reader I have found that they are much more receptive to this then some banner breaking up the text like an ugly adsense ad.
A crucial part to making your affiliate marketing links work is to have enough content that it will not be the main focus of your article. The reader is going to need to feel satisfied with the article and not simply sold on some type of empty story that wasted their precious time.
That is why the articles must be at least fifteen hundred words or more. This length is expectable with Google and should be just enough to answer your reader’s initial questions about the issue at hand. Moving forward, it has been stated from many of the top sources within the SEO and affiliate marketer communities that placing a relevant and high quality picture around every three hundred words is optimal.
In regards to the picture I also will place affiliate marketing links within the pictures since it is human nature to click on them. This may seem a little sneaky and it is, but I am putting it out there because it works. So do with that information what you will. For the design of the article you are going to want to break it up into manageable chunks.
Nobody wants to just look at a full page of text. For me, it simply make my eyes hurt. Have a look around at the top blogs in your niche and see how there are structuring their pages.
On that note let’s talk about pages and posts for a moment as some of you may be confused as to the uses of them. It is my understanding that pages are meant to be the pillars of your website while the posts are meant to fade away with time. I don’t have any proof or reasoning any other way but it is only the way I see it and it works for me.
I would put affiliate links in both of them. In closing you need to make sure you cloak your affiliate links and place them only where they are relevant.
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