Amazon Associates Program
In my post about Flipkart affiliate, I shared with you the Step by Step process on how you can make Rs 24,983.94/- in a month from Flipkart Affiliate. In this post I will show you how to make money from Amazon Affiliate Program in India.
I make money online every month using Amazon affiliate program, its simple, easy to use and pays well. How well? You might ask. Last month I made Rs 47,598.10/- using Amazon Affiliate Program so I would say it pays pretty well. Checkout my Amazon affiliate earning screenshot below.
Can you too make this kind of money from Amazon Affiliate Program? YES YOU CAN.
I am going to show you the step by step process, which you can follow to make this much and much more money from Amazon Affiliate program; also you should read how You can increase your income & easily make $40,000 in a year.
Since Amazon is still relatively lesser known brand in India, let's start with a brief look at what exactly is Amazon.
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Also Read – What is Affiliate Marketing and How to get started
What is Amazon?
Amazon is an online shopping site. It was founded in 1994 in United States by Jeff Bezos. Amazon is a worldwide leader in e-commerce and offers online retail, digital content, computing services, consumer electronics and much more. If you have never heard or seen it, here’s a link to the site – Amazon.in
Amazon was started as an online book store (same as Flipkart) but soon diversified into various other consumer products. It has individual website catering to various counties like Amazon.co.uk for UK and Amazon.in for India etc.
Notice Amazon’s logo above, it’s simple and clean. See the yellow line in the logo that goes from A to Z , that’s designed to depict a smile 
. What’s more the smile also signifies that Amazon philosophy, that the company is happy to deliver everything to everyone, everywhere in the world. A philosophy that’s helped Amazon reach out to all corners of the world.
What you will learn –
- What is Affiliate Marketing
- How you can earn Rs 50,000+ per month from Amazon Affiliate
- How to find a Profitable Niche
- How to create a Niche Website and How to Promote it
- Amazon Affiliate Program Sign up Process
- Most Important – My Successes Mantras
What is Affiliate Marketing
Affiliate Marketing is big business worldwide. To earn well from Amazon Affiliate's India Program, you need to have good understanding of what is affiliate marketing.
Knowledge of affiliate marketing will help you gain better understanding of the process and provide you with the much required confidence that YOU can make money from affiliate marketing.
Also this understanding will help you in finding the appropriate affiliate marketing opportunities in your area. Let me put the concept of affiliate marketing in very simple words here.
Affiliate marketing for you; is a way of making money by selling or promoting other companies products and services for commission.
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Affiliate Marketing is simply selling someone else’s services or products and in return, you get paid a commission for doing the sales.
How you can earn Rs 50,000+ per month from Amazon Affiliate program
To earn money from Amazon Affiliate Marketing, you will require certain resources. This will require some investment from your end, in terms of money and time. However rest assured that your investment will be recovered in a very short span of time.
For making money from Amazon affiliate Program each month you need to have these things –
- Profitable Niche or Segment – This is the topic on which you will be creating your website or blog and you will be selling products related to this topic via the Amazon Affiliate Marketing program.
- Domain & Hosting – To create your blog/website on and host it at.
- A blog or a website – To write about the topic, and its related products. This is where your sales will come from. I use Ultimate Azon Theme to build my niche affiliate sites, check it out here.
- Quality Content – It is essential in order to get people to your blog/website and motivate them to make purchase via your affiliate link.
- High rankings in Google – This will help you reach out to more buyers
- Traffic which converts – People visiting your blog/website should purchase the product you are selling.
How to find a profitable Niche
Finding the right Niche to work with is very crucial. Your niche forms the base of your entire money making operation from Amazon Affiliate, hence it is very important to get this right.This is the idea generation stage where you will need to research, analyze and find the most profitable segment for your website.
Follow these steps to find profitable niche for your website/blog–
- Go to Amazon website and browse through the various different departments listed on it.
- List down all the departments in which you have some knowledge or skills.
- Within each department there are many categories of products. Drill down these categories and list your chosen categories that you are comfortable working with.
- Find how much commission Amazon offers on these selected Categories.
- List down these commission % against the categories you have chosen.
- Now lets go back to the amazon website and drill down each of your chosen categories.
- Navigate to your chosen Category, on this page you will be able to see ‘Bestsellers' mentioned next to the category name. This will help you find the best selling products in this category, if buyers already love a certain product, it will be easy for you to sell it too. So click on Bestsellers and we will try to narrow down the products further.
- On this page, you will be able to see 3 different sections labelled as -Bestsellers, Hot New Releases, Movers & Shakers. You need to focus on 2 of the sections, namely Bestsellers; which lists most popular products in this category based on sales numbers & Hot new releases; which lists the best selling new and future products in this category.
- Study both these sections and you will get some great product ideas to play with. Look for products with high MRP and lots of reviews. Higher the MRP more the commission % you can earn and more the reviews more popular is the product. You can choose to work with any one product listed in these sections, or work with a bunch of products listed here.
- The benefit of working with products listed in either of these sections is that, you already have product popularity on your side. You know buyers like these products and are more inclined to buy them over other products in the same category.
- At this stage you can chose to work with 1 or many products, or with a complete category as a whole. You have done all this research in order to find a profitable niche that will earn you good amount of affiliate money. So in order to take the final call, you will need to look in at a few more points.
- You need to find what is the current competition for your chosen product? Are there any current popular sites about your chosen product or category?
- How many monthly searches are happening in Google for your chosen product or category?
- Can you write quality content on your chosen product or category?
Once you filter your segment using this, you will have some profitable niche on which you can launch a website/blog.
Below is the list of some good niche sites –
- Baby Diapers
- Body Building
- Smart Phones
- Best Laptops
- Weight loss
- Maternity
- Kids growth
How to create a Niche Website and How to promote it
Step 1: Book a Domain
After you finalize your niche,now its time to book a domain. You can choose a generic name or find a keyword rich domain that’s upto you. There are pro and con of either type of domain, its your call which type of domain you are comfortable working with. I prefer going for a keyword rich domain.
I use GoDaddy.com to book my domains, as I find their service quite efficient and hassle free an you can get domains at as low as Rs 99/- for a whole year.
Step 2: Buy Hosting
Once your domain is in place, now you need a good hosting service. I suggest working with either Hostgator or Bluehost hosting. Both of them offer good quality. I use Hostgator for my website hosting and I never faced any issues with them.
I strongly recommend working with WordPress to create your 1st blog. WordPress is very user friendly and has tons of helpful plugins to make your blog easy to manage.
Step 3: Create your WordPress Blog
Now its time to get WordPress blog up and running. You can follow the video below video for step by step instructions on how to create a WordPress Blog.
Step 4: Content Creation
With your blog ready, it now needs filling up. You need to add quality content to your blog. For this you 1st need to find topics on which to write on.
You can take help of Google auto suggest or ubersuggest.org which will provides you with popular keyword suggestions which you can use to design topics to write on.
Try to design most of your content on topics/questions buyers would ask/ research before buying the particular product you have chosen to work with. When answering the question ensure that your conclusion are very clear and precise.
You need to make your thoughts and choice on the topic clear. Most potential buyers are looking for answers, and decisions. You content should never end by saying ‘ You can choose to buy either product A or product B'; it should always end by saying ‘ I would suggest buying product B'; give a clear decision at end of the content.
Some content ideas for you:
- 5 things you need to know before you buy Product A
- Review of Product A
- Comparison between Product A and B
If you are not very good at content writing you can hire good content writers from sites like odesk.com or freelancer.com
If you choose to do a single product based niche site, the biggest advantage you have is in terms of content. You don’t have to spend lot of time in creating content. Create 8-10 pages of good content; after that you can concentrate all your efforts in promoting the website.
Step 5: Promote your Website/Blog
To promote your blog put Social Sharing buttons in your blog and ask your audience to share it; as I am asking you to share this post . Go and share this valuable post on all the social media to give your social friends value and knowledge.
Use Free as well as paid methods to promote your niche website. For Niche website it is important to rank in search engine hence you will have to spend good amount of time doing SEO for your niche website and once it ranks on top for the keywords you will make good amount of money every month.
Also Check 16 Amazon Affiliate Example Sites by Doug Cunnington
When to Scale Your Amazon Affiliate Niche Site Business By Doug Cunnington
Amazon Affiliate Program Sign up Process
Watch my video below to learn how you too can sign-up for Amazon India's Affiliate Marketing Program. The process is quite simple and will require only 10 minutes of your time.
You can go on affiliate-program.amazon.in to complete your sign up.
Also you can check out the tools i use to get success – Click to check My Money Making Machines .
My Successes Mantras
Below are the things which you need to keep in mind while creating a niche website; these will help you increase your conversion rate so that you can earn more money from it.
- Below are my tips on how to make money from Amazon Affiliate, these are the things which I realized that one needs to know and follow if he wants to make good money from Amazon.
- Always remember affiliate marketing is not pure selling; visitors know amazon website and they can buy from it directly; why they have come to your website and not gone to amazon is because they need some help / guidance / recommendation as to which would be the right product for them. Hence make sure you help them in your content.
- Create content which adds value to the buyer; if he/she is able to make a decision after reading your post; he/she will surely buy products using your buy button.
- The best way to make money from Amazon affiliate is to compare main product with 2-3 other products which people usually stuck when they make a buying call. Compare and show them how the main product is better and if you are successful in doing so; you will get the sale.
- People like to take opinion on products before they buy anything, if it’s possible to get reviews on site that will increase conversions.
- Don’t make false claims just to sell your product; if you are not confident about the product; you won’t be able to sell it; hence choose a product which is really good and you can recommend it with full confidence instead making false claims about a product to make it sell.
- At times you may feel low as you are not making money but always remember that Winners never quit and quitters never win.
- Traffic is the most import factor in making money from affiliate programs; hence you have to make sure you promote your website in all possible ways; use SEO and Social media to its fullest extent.
- Links within text gets you maximum conversions when you compare it with a banner ad or buy button; hence I recommend using contextual links more.
- You need to be very careful when you choose your topic; choose topics which are pre-buying. If you choose topics which are related to post buying then there are very less chances that you will make any money. Eg. Which one to buy Samsung Galaxy S3 Neo or Nokia Lumia 730 Dual SIM? Will convert more than how to take better pictures with Samsung S3 Neo
- During Diwali or any festival sales goes up hence make sure you do heavy promotion during these days as conversion ratios is always high at such times.
- Make sure you only put affiliate links of the products which are highly relevant to our post otherwise it will be opportunity lost.
I have collected few great post on Amazon Affiliate Marketing, click below to read them.
Read More –
Turning My Online Store Into An Amazon Affiliate Site – Shabbir Nooruddin
A Beginner Guide To Make Money From Amazon Affiliate Program- MoneyHomeBlog
How to earn online with Amazon Affiliate Program – WebEmployed
How to Setup Amazon Affiliate Websites on WordPress – Jon Haver
Amazon Affiliate Websites – Why You Should Start With Them – Dom Wells
Make Money From Amazon Affiliate Building Niche Site – Al-Amin Kabir
My Latest Source of Income: The Amazon Affiliate Program
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Excellent article about Amazon Affiliate. I am going to try it on my blog.
I read this blog about a month ago, gave it a shot. Did it step by step on the directions you shared and am happy to say, I love the results. Very satisfactory! Will keep doing it, very easy money.
After reading the blog, I found that it is one of the easiest ways of money making. Thank you for providing the step by step information regarding amazon affiliate. This article is definitely going to benefit me because i have recently created my login in amazon affiliate and i was searching on google to get more info and i got your blog. you have provided the information in a very systematic order.
Very useful information regarding amazon affiliate, I am searching from long time. now its time to implement it in my website.
I have been trying to make money using affiliate marketing but never tried amazon, after reading this post i am motivated enough to start it.
Very informative article on Amazon affiliate marketing.I have started using the strategy in my site.Thanks.
I have created a blog on wordpress and had earlier signed up for amazon affiliate prog. But try as i did for pasting the link for amazon products.. it just didnt work. later I read in the forum that they do not encourage amazon products to be directly adverised on wordpress. So what do I do?
Great article. I liked that and I am sure it will help many people. Thank you for sharing
Sir can i also earn money as I have a new blog in education niche.
Really very good article to earn money by affiliate route of Amazon. I will certainly start. Thanks a lot.
I was not aware of your website.
I have many wordpress websites but have never tried affiliate marketing.
I have an amazon affiliate account.
I will try and report.
Thanks for your research (and effort to publish this piece)
Title “in 30 days” is intriguing
Title “in 30 days” is intriguing
very useful informayion.i had one,but i didnt try to promote.thank you
Hi Shashank
Thanks for the post
I would like to know your Blog (by uaing that block you made 50,000). By seeing that i will get more knowledge .
Thanks
First of all thanks for the tips. I have one question: Suppose I have created a site on mobile phones and receiving 1000 Visitors per month and let assume that I am using flipkart and amazon affiliate programs. Can I expect 1% conversion rate for mobile niche and 10 sales for each 1000 visitors from search engine.
Do u have any experience in this niche? Kindly let me know if you have worked with mobile niche.
Hi, I would like to know, how would the payment mode of Amazon be if we generate enough income for them. Do they pay with cheques or do electronic transfer? And what is the credit period. Awaiting your revert. Thanks
Sir, Give me your affiliate website. After going through your affiliate websites the concept will be more clear.
I would like to be affiliate of Amazon and Flipkart
Regards
Ajit
I have started my affiliate marketing since one month but i have not earn anything from it.as i don’t have knowledge how to sell product on my web ? or on Amazon . I have nice traffic around my blog. so please help me to sell product ?
Excellent articles so far for affilaite marketing
I want to ask u about amazon,Im amazon indian affiltate & if some american buy product from my link then will I get paid for that
I have started my affiliate program since 25th JAN2016 . I am adding the product in my wish list & promoting on social media ,like face book, twitter, & pinintrest . I am also using email list to send the products to my friends. The products which are promoting are current, having more reviews & best seller.So please tell me is it correct method ? or I have to adopt any another method?
Exact article which i was looking for. Clearly explained.
thanks dear great info I am doing the same. I hope I will get more revenue after your article
I am using Amazon affiliate marketing these tips of your will help me in making money. thanks..
Sir. please tell me it is a without investment buisness or not investment.
Does Amazon affiliate work if you do not have a website but only a facebook page for the products?
PLEASE give me knowledge about ”How to put link [association] link on my site?
Thanks for your great informative article.
First of all thanks Shashank for giving this wonderful post. 24 lacs a year? You really inspired me! Started following your guide. will continue this session after some days with results 🙂
hi shashank i joined in affliate programme can you please send me step by step details how can i post or promote a link in other websites .
thanks
gs
Thanks for your great article. I didn’t know about we can earn such as money from Amazon.
Hi Shashank,
This is a great post. I really like the way of explanation. For sure Amazon Affiliate program is one of the best ways to make money.
Thanks
Sir,
I would like to become affiliates for Flipkart, Amazon and Snapdeal.
One question is whether we can use one website/url to be come affiliate for all the above three.
Thanks and Regards
Siva Mannar
Great article. People always skip the research bit and then wonder why they’re either not selling anything or are earning pennies in commission.
Also, people aren’t aware of the tools Amazon actually provide their affiliates. Don’t forget, they want you to succeed too, after all, they’re making the most money!
Once again, great article, thanks.
hi shashank..
i really enjoyed your article learned some new things..
i am new to affiliate marketing..
which affiliate will be better for Indians?? amazon.com vs amazon.in??
i m in confusion
Great content man. Liked it and enjoyed it a lot. Also shared it to unlock the remaining part.
By the way which plugin you used to lock the selected areas in article?
few years I am trying to learn affiliate marketing but there is no helpful articles about affiliate marketing. I liked your article, Thank you for your help.
Thanks
hi shashank,
Since SEO is very important for ranking of website, do you advice taking course on SEO for a newbie ? Please advice.
Hi,
I have a .in domain. Will I see amazon.com products in my .in domain? How will amazon.com users know that I am selling products?
Thanks
Hello Shashankji,
I would like to ask you is it “Cooking Essentials” under Home & Kitchen niche is good for promoting? Is it profitable?
Please give me reply.
Thanks,
Nikhil
Hello shashank
I want to know in which website your doing affiliate marketing… in this blog i didnt saw…
I just created a WordPress blog thinking of selling health products…. I am not sure, whether it will work or not but steps and tips you mentioned here looks very promising… I can’t wait to see the progress….
Thanks for this great content….
Ugyen
Great article. Clearly explained
visitor link pe click karne ke badh affiliate ka time period kitna hota hai
Was searching for this details for starting my affiliate site
First to say thanks for sharing this great article. Affiliated marketing is good way to make money online. I am just start my blog and make good commission. So it’s nice resource to make money fast. Your article is must helpful for newbie blogger like me.
The amazon affiliate marketing is very useful and profitable.
Your website looks neat and your information are more valuable. keep it up.
Great info you have here. I’ve recently launched my affiliate website and hopefully I am doing the right stuffs. Glady I found your site. Those ideas are helpful to me. Thanks!
This was extremely helpful and I am very grateful for this information. I’m a beginner with Amazon Affiliate marketing so this tutorial will be quite useful and is greatly appreciated!
Thank you for your great post i want to start amazon business . i agree with you Affiliate marketing is good way to make money online.
Excellent article, Shashank.
Just a quick note; I know your audience is mostly Indian, but you can also promote Amazon.com products no matter where in the world you are. Payoneer will give you an American “virtual bank account”, which you can use to get paid from amazon.com. You can then transfer your earnings from your Payoneer account, to your proper bank account.
You probably knew that already, but I thought I’d mention it for other people who maybe don’t know. 🙂
Keep up the good work.
Thanks for the really informative post. I would like to build a site.
Any pointers on how I could go about doing this?