My First Payment from The Amazon.com Affiliate (Associates) Program

I was reviewing my latest bank statement today and found an automatic payment to my account for $11 and a few cents. I was pleasantly surprised to find that the payment was from the Amazon.com Associates Program--which is Amazon's free affiliate program--even though the payment was relatively small (relative to the payments I get from the myriad other affiliate programs I participate in.)

This payment was exciting for me because it is the first cash I've ever earned from Amazon.com, and I've been with the program for some years now!

Why did it take so long for me to make this small amount of money with the Amazon affiliate program? Well, it's primarily because the program is nothing but pay-per-sale, which means I only get paid a commission when Amazon.com ships an item to a customer who I referred to the Amazon.com online catalog of goods. For obvious reasons, making money with any pay-per-sale affiliate program is much harder than making money with a pay-per-click or pay-pay-lead program.

But that's not to say that you can't make good money with Amazon.com. I know people who are making thousands of dollars per month with Amazon.com's associates program, and they are making that kind of money by putting up highly focused websites, and getting traffic--that is, paying for traffic via programs like Yahoo! Search Marketing (List your site with Yahoo! Sponsored Search and your business could be at the top of search results on Yahoo!, MSN or Alta Vista.), and getting traffic via organic search engine rankings--that is highly targeted to those websites. And these days, it's much easier to make money with Amazon than is was years ago when I first signed up, because Amazon.com has transformed itself from being the Internet's most popular online bookstore to the online megastore that it is today, selling everything from consumer electronics, to furniture, to jewelry, pet supplies, DVD's--and the list goes on.

I am excited about my future with the Amazon program, as I think there's real potential in it. If you are interested in becoming an Amazon.com affiliate, click here.

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