Amazon.com affiliate program seems getting lot of negative reviews because of their 4% commission rate and also 24 hour cookie. I was told by so many webmasters Amazon Affiliate program is one of the worst Affiliate programs you can find. But i don’t think this has much truth in it.
First their 24 hours cookie problem. It means you will get paid only if your referrer buy something within 24 hours since he has clicked your Amazon product link. Now this is kinda bad I agree.
Then their low affiliate commission rate, which is 4%. they have a flat rate for list of consumer electronic stuff. But for other products like books, DVDs and many other things you can earn upto 8.5 % and at Endless.com gives you upto 15% ! So its not bad at all. Specially if you niche is about books, Manga / Anime, Games and Movies. Even for things like cameras Amazon affiliate program is one of few which you can use.
Reason for so many webmasters false with Amazon affiliate program is because they use it for wrong type of sites. You can’t earn money from Amazon Affiliate program using every site you have like with PPC networks.
This works well with sites which has loads of returning traffic. If your site visitors trust you, then they tend to buy things through your link. So You can earn money from Amazon affiliate program using blogs. You can recommend products and make reviews about what you like.
There are few good things about Amazon affiliate program. Amazon.com is more like a household name. people buy things from it ! This is a big advantage. Also they have soo many different things, which means you might earn money from none related items to your Amazon link. for example someone who used a link from your book review site might buy a plasma TV !
So Amazon.com affiliate program is not bad as it might look. You need to know how to earn from it. Also it needs loads of traffic. I have always able to keep clicks/sales rato at 2%-5%. Sometimes even 10%.
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