Amazon.com Associates is the affiliate program for the billions and billions of things for sale on Amazon. Amazon.com has recently given it’s Associates site a facelift and rearranged it links and banners and widgets. They have done away with the little doodad that automatically made links out of your content. They recommend replacing it with an Omakase widget, which also looks at your content to pick items for sale from Amazon. Text links have always been the best performer for me.
The New Look of Amazon.com Associates is smooth and clean with headers and new groupings of the usual suspects of Widgets and Banner ads. There are recommended links and a Featured Tool and it all looks very good. Will it help me make more money? Only time will tell.
I like things like the Carousel Widget, but they tend to break the rule that people love to buy stuff, but hate to be sold stuff. They might take your advice and follow a text link where it looks more like you are making a personal recommendation and less like you are trying to make a buck. As with everything else online, a lot of it has to do with numbers as well. The more hits you have the better the chances are that someone will click on something.
And Amazon.com Associates gives you a lot of stuff to have people click on. One of the cool items I have found that I like to play around with is the Amazon aStore. The aStore is your own little shop in the Amazon universe. You can make the aStore about anything you can find on Amazon.com. These webshops don’t take long to whip up and bundling a few different items under one topic is easy do. I have a Beatles aStore which has Beatles Music, Beatles Clothing, Beatles Stuff, and Beatles Books. Using the Inline Frame I embedded my Beatles aStore into a Blogspot blog. There seems to be a world of potential in the Amazon aStore, but I have yet to figure out how to exploit that potential.
I have made some money as an Amazon Affiliate, but not enough to quit my day job. They make it easy and fun to create content for your site and create the opportunity for making money. Amazon sells everything under the sun, so the odds are good that you could find something to offer for sale that would fit in with the over theme of your site.
