subject: How To Make Money Blogging With The Amazon Affiliate Program [print this page] How To Make Money Blogging With The Amazon Affiliate Program
The Amazon affiliate program abounds with niche products that can be used as a means to make money blogging. The really nice thing about using blogs to promote Amazon affiliate program products is that they are so easy to set up. You can build and launch an entire self supporting source of income in a day and it can literally become a small cash machine that is hands-off thereafter. All you have to do is find a method that works and copy it over and over again for micro-niche products with low competition. How is this done, you ask? Simple. Through Amazon affiliate program product reviews. Here is the technique step-by-step.
First, find yourself a micro-niche. When I say micro-niche, I am referring to a product whose name gets between one and two thousand exact match searches per month. Search for that keyword in Google and check the number of competing pages for that term. We are looking for two things. The first is a competing page count of less than one million and a series of results on the first page that are not heavily keyword optimized meaning that you do not see your keyword of interest heavily spread throughout the titles and excerpts. If you find it, this is a niche that can be dominated. The right micro-niche finder can help.
Once you have found your niche keyword, purchase an exact match domain name for it. If you can, buy the dot com version of the domain name. If the dot com version is not available, you can use the dot org or the dot net of even the dot info since we are going to set up a review site on it.
After you have acquired your domain name, get hosting your four niche review site. Free hosting is discouraged for review websites because you want to make sure of several things such as uptime, available bandwidth and the ability to set up an autoresponder if you will be using your site to build a list of targeted prospects.
Once you have a domain name and hosting, reset the Domain Name Servers (DNS) listed with your registrar to those of your new hosting service which your hosting service will provide.
After your servers have refreshed and access to the domain name is available via a web browser, install the Wordpress blog PHP script under your root domain using the Fantastico De Luxe script installer in your control panel. Fantastico is pretty much standard these days.
Next, write about ten articles. In only one of these articles will you actually be reviewing that product. Next, post them to your blog. The review that you post should be fairly long.
Generally, around 800-1000 words is normal and your reviews should provide value to your visitors. Key to writing a good review is performing extensive research for each product you are reviewing before you actually write the article and then provide all the details you found while researching the product. You will need also to create a few supporting posts on the same blog that will be linking internaly to the review post. That way you will boost rankings of the review post.
Next write ten more articles on this subject and submit them to the top article directories. This will help drive traffic and build your backlinks.
There are plenty of webmasters making money this way. If you are going to pursue building niche review sites, the key is to be persistent and stick to it while at the same time keeping a close eye on your analytics to see what works and what doesn't. If you stick to this program, you can definitely make money blogging with the Amazon affiliate program.
