How To Make Money Affiliate

How do you make money using amazon as an affiliate?

Any good websites for info on this topic?
Can u leverage amazons product data thru there api as a tool to make money through amazon?

It is getting more and more difficult. There are 2 basic ways, with variations of others.

1) Use Pay Per Click advertising to send customers directly to amazon pages with your affiliate link. You would use Google Adwords, MSN AdCenter or Yahoo ads to send customers there. This method is probably going to die on or around May 1st, because Amazon recently banned direct linking. There are ways around this, but it complicates matters.

2) You can create content sites with Amazon ads embedded within it. In fact, there are some very nice packages that will do this for you almost completely automatically. The beauty of these packages is that they let you mix Amazon ads with Adsense and other programs, so you distribute your income over many different sources. Here’s a popular one:

http://www.watersworld.com/redir/Amazon.html

WARNING. Don’t think that you’ll become rich by throwing up a web page with one of these tools. These are just tools, like a hammer. You must use the tool correctly. You’ll have to drive traffic, and that’s a whole different subject!

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