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How To Get Links From Amazon

by: Henry James

Amazon has become one of the most productive e-commerce entities. Due to its reliable and profit-oriented affiliate program, the strength of Amazon has shot up very quickly. The Amazon affiliate program which was launched in 1996 has become an epitome of opportunity and profit requisites for its affiliates. You would surely like to get links from this grand daddy of all e-commerce affiliates programs present today.

If you want to get links from Amazon, you would have to sign up with the Amazon associates program. You can build affiliate links with Amazon through Amazon�s e-commerce service or through Amazon online associates tools.

It takes merely 5 minutes to get started with Amazon associates. You have to visit the sign up page and fill the mandatory details. These details include your name, address, website address, payment information and much more. After this you would get a temporary approval for your account with the associates. The Amazon staff would visit and review your website to verify if it meets their eligibility criteria or not. After being affirmative, they would send you a confirmation-of-acceptance email. The email would state your official acceptance into the program.

After you have been successfully accepted as a member, you would be offered options to choose from two payment schemes. The first one is the classic payment option. It is a flat payment of 4% on the items purchased by the visitors on the link provided by Amazon associates.

The other scheme is known as performance plan. The plan starts up from 5 percent on the total number of shipped products. It means that you get 5% commission, if your affiliate links generate between 1-20 shipped units. You would get 7.5% commission, if your links generate over 10,000 shipped units. Performance plan is the best option if you want to maximize your potential affiliate earning.

Amazon also pays in three varied methods for your efforts helping them sell their material. The methods include a check being mailed to you, an Amazon gift certificate, or direct deposition of your earnings in your account.

In order to generate revenue with Amazon, the real magic is all about choosing the accurate kind of link, for the appropriate products and further putting them in the right context. This is essential as any laxity on behalf of selecting the right link can lead you to a loss. About 5 different types of links are provided by Amazon.

These links are:
1.Text links: you can link to any Amazon page directly.
2.Product links: linking particular items of Amazon.
3.Recommended product links: link shows applicable products.
4.Banner links: type of Amazon promos.
5.Search box: providing search facility.

If you want to maximize your potentials of affiliate earning, you should choose the link which provides you with the highest potential reward. It implies that creating a link which initially offers you 2.5 %.

The product link is probably the easiest execution method. The Internet interface permits you to navigate the required products as well as creating the HTML code automatically.

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