Three Step Guide To Making Money With Amazon

Following the steps in this article will allow you to start seeing some results from your affiliate marketing with Amazon products. Making money with Amazon is a three step process, picking a product, creating content and promoting that content to generate traffic.

1. Choosing a Product

Amazon has literally millions of products to choose from. You could make a career of choosing and promoting only products from the Amazon Marketplace. Narrowing down your choice is as easy as looking at Amazon bestsellers for whatever category you may be interested in. Go to Amazon.com and click on a category, then take a look at the bestsellers for that category.

For example, in the Pregnancy and Maternity category one of the bestsellers is "Fetal Dopplers". This product has many positive reviews and Amazon is telling up that it is selling well. This would be a product to investigate, first we need to check out some search data. Are people searching for keywords related to this item? Is there a lot of competition for those keywords?

We want to check out the search traffic for "fetal dopplers". Using Market Samurai we find that the phrase "fetal doppler" gets 6,600 exact match searches per month. Based on this criteria alone this looks like a good niche to get into. But, let's not get our hopes up yet. We have to look at the competition and see how difficult it will be to organically rank for "fetal doppler". Using the SEO Competition module in Market Samurai we can do exactly that.

Opening up the SEO Competition module we'll see that the top 5 sites for "fetal doppler" may be pretty easy to beat. #1 is an Amazon product page with only 10 back links. The remaining 4 sites are top level domains but with relatively low page rank and under 1000 back links. The number 2 site may be more time consuming to beat as it has 800+ back links but it will just take a little more time. So with this information I would definitely target "fetal doppler" as a niche I could compete in and be profitable with little effort.

2. Creating Content

When it comes to creating content for your Amazon affiliate sites you want to keep the customer in mind. If you were searching for a "fetal doppler" would you want to come across a site that has copied reviews from Amazon, or a site that has comparisons of the leading home dopplers on the market with pros and cons of each? Being an affiliate doesn't mean you sugar coat everything and promote everything under the sun. You need to give good information to your users.

Amazon has tons of information available for you to use as an affiliate. Taking a look at the product page will give you a starting point for your content. Take the content from Amazon and rewrite it in your own words using some review content rewritten as well to create a keyword rich piece of content the search engines and your visitors will appreciate.

Basic on-page SEO rules apply when creating your content. Make sure you have your keyword in your title, url, header and description. With Wordpress this is a snap when you use the FREE All-in-one SEO plugin.

Don't have your own sites? You can create Squidoo lenses to promote specific products and start generating income with no hosting or domain name costs at all.

3. Promoting Your Content and Traffic Generation

So we've got our product chosen and have written our review, now what? You have to get people visiting your site to be able to convert them into buyers. Well your content is optimized for your keyword but nowadays that's not enough. Now we have to focus on off-page optimization, specifically back links and even more specifically keyword optimized anchor text back links. Whoa! Wait a minute, you might be thinking, this is getting too complicated for me. Relax, it's not as hard as you may think.

Let's focus on our "fetal doppler" page that we made. We want to let the search engines know that this page is about "fetal dopplers", so we'll create links back to this page using "fetal doppler" and related keywords as the anchor text. Anchor text is the text used as the clickable part of a link.

So where can we create these all powerful anchor text back links? Well, first of all, on our own site. Yep, that's right. Create content on your own site about fetal dopplers and link "fetal doppler" and related phrases to your product review page.

There are thousands of link building tactics out there and many different ways to go about link building but my favorite is with article syndication. Article syndication allows you to create instant traffic as well as long term SEO benefits of back links for your content. Create articles and syndicate them to the major article directories linking back to your product reviews.

After article syndication you can submit your content to RSS directories and social bookmarking sites as well as using "link networks" such as Unique Article Wizard and Linkvana to boost your back link profile and increase your search engine rankings for more traffic.

Mose "product keywords" have so little competition that you'll be ranking in the top ten of the search engine results for your keywords after completing only these steps, benefiting from the all important search traffic for your keywords.

By: Jesse Livings

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