Effective Strategies for Amazon Affiliates

So you're a new affiliate for the Amazon Associates program, and you want to find out what's the best way to share your links online to start earning affiliate commissions. But if you watch my Do's and Don'ts video for Amazon affiliates, you'll also know that Amazon has certain Do's and Don'ts for how they allow their partners to share their links online. to share their links. For example, you can't share your Amazon affiliate links anywhere in emails, in eBooks, in PDFs, in private communities or private conversations. So where can you share your links and how can you promote Amazon products? products effectively so that you get clicks and conversions and you don't risk getting kicked out of the affiliate program. Keep watching to find out. Hi there, if you're new, my name is Anna and I help bloggers increase their passive income through affiliate commissions and smart blogging strategies. Speaking of smart strategies, here are 10 places where you can share your Amazon affiliate links online. The number one best place to share Amazon affiliate link is on a website or within blog content. And I'm not just talking about putting it anywhere on a website that you can share your create or just blogging about amazon products i'm talking about placing amazon affiliate links within content targeted at solving someone's problem so in other words instead of going out there and sharing your amazon affiliate links saying buy this help me out here's a deal that you might not even be interested in you connect to an audience looking for answers information or inspiration online and you give them free value and tips and within that you strategically place Amazon affiliate links. For example, on one of my blogs, I wrote a post on the best way to remove ticks and fleas from dogs. In there, I recommend some super affordable and effective products at removing ticks from dogs. The article goes on to share how you can prevent ticks from attaching to your dog in the first place, how to get rid of them if you do encounter that problem. So I include a few flea treatments and inserting affiliate links for it in the first place that act as a reminder for those dog owners currently reading. that might have forgotten to get the flea treatment this month so the article overall is meant to answer the question how to remove ticks from dogs but it also provides value on top of that so here's my advice write how-to articles that solve very niche problems and questions and because blog posts are public and they're online for anyone to see you are allowed to embed as many affiliate links as you want and you can even do so in multiple formats so you can include text links you can include the images and so on and this won't break any of amazon's rules if you don't have a website or a blog yet it's literally never been easier to start one just follow the steps in my tutorial on how to start a profitable blog i have both a youtube video on this and a free course that you can enroll in below and i personally recommend a self-hosted wordpress blog this means it's an independent blog you get full control you can monetize however you want and it's not built on a free platform but wordpress itself is a a free builder that's super customizable so you can create blogs that look nothing like other blogs out there or you can replicate some really smart designs that work for profitable blogs wordpress also comes with a library full of plugins that you can install and they add specific features that you want to your blog for example for my pet blog all the amazon affiliate links that you see are built with the lasso plugin and they create super branded looks for affiliate links that don't look as spammy and they also allow you to automatically automatically show the Prime badge and the price for each of these products. So when it comes to building an affiliate website, these are the two main things that you need. First of all, you need blog hosting and the second one, you need a good affiliate plugin for displaying and sharing and tracking your affiliate links. Although you can just start by embedding affiliate links from Amazon to a blog without having a plugin, Lasso does help you get around some of those other Amazon pesky affiliate rules that don't allow you to display the price unless you update it every 24 hours, which Lasso automatically does for you. And they also notify you when products are out of stock so you can change the product recommendation so you don't get all this traffic coming to a blog, clicking on a link that's out of stock and then leaving without making a sale. You can also see the Lasso affiliate plugin in action on this coffee blog that I love that I'll show you right here. And basically you can see the difference on how they branded their display boxes versus how it's branded on my main blog or on my pet blog. So you can basically cut. customize it so it looks nothing alike and it fits your branding and it fits the purpose and you can even create links or comparison tables my link for lasso is below if you want to give it a try it is an affiliate link but i pay for this tool out of pocket every single year and it is so worth it because it has increased my affiliate conversions and sales not to mention that my websites just look a little bit more professional and clean and people can easily spot affiliate links instead of trying to find just a little little text links that I include in blog posts. But if you want to manually add your Amazon links to blogs, I also have a tutorial on how to do that with the size stripe. and just overpress blog. So you can do that if you want to take that path. If you're new to Amazon affiliates, here's a super quick crash course tutorial on how to grab your Amazon affiliate links. Log into your Amazon associates account. You need to create one before this step, but it is free to do and you don't have to wait for them to approve you. Once you're logged in, go to Amazon as normal as you're browsing as a shopper, pick a product and look out for this site stripe. Once you find that, click on get link, usually for the text option or one of the. the other two if you want to embed it as an image as well. Once you have that, follow my other tutorial, go to your blog and include it in there. That is also how you grab the link to share on any other of the nine steps that follow. Speaking of which, the second place where you can embed Amazon affiliate links is in gift guides or product comparison posts. These kind of posts and content really convert because once again, they address a specific need. Not to mention that there is user intent to buy. So both people who are looking at at gift guides and people who are looking at different product recommendations and comparison articles are looking to decide between one of the products in there to buy. You'll see an example of that on in this article on the best french press coffees and it basically goes through all the features and the different needs that somebody who might want to get into brewing their own coffee at home and it addresses that specific need and it compares a couple of the top ones that they consider to be the best. And you've probably probably been there whether deciding which iPhone to buy, which vacuum cleaner to buy, or anything else that you have bought and have given a little bit more consideration to, you probably have done some research and landed on some of these product comparison posts. That's why they convert so well. Gift guides are also surprisingly effective. For example, my gift guide of what to buy quirky owners or moms. You can create this type of content on almost any platform. So having it set up in a blog format definitely definitely works very, very well. But if you put together any type of video content, you can talk about that. If you post on YouTube, if you just have an online community or an email list or newsletter. And the reason why I say they work a little better for blog posts is because you're able to insert the Amazon links for every single product as people are reading through it. While it might be a little harder to do that for video content, for example, or on specific platforms, you might only be able to leave one link rather than link to the whole product. I'm going to walk you through how to share Amazon affiliate links for all these other social media platforms. Try to find either product comparison posts or gift guide ideas that work for your niche and create some content for it, especially leading up to things like the holidays. But once again, the trick is to keep these gift guides and posts very specific to your audience. That is truly the thing that's going to matter the most when it comes to conversions and sales through your links, because nobody's searching for best iPhones to buy on my pet blog, right? Even something something like best gifts for dog owners is way too broad. Instead, what I did is I wrote specific gift guides for specific dog breeds or dog lovers, and you can do the same for almost every top thing. Best gifts for a gamer boyfriend or best gifts for a coffee lover under $50. Moving on, the third best place to share affiliate links, especially from Amazon, is in resource pages or libraries. So you might have noticed that bloggers and content creators creators who tend to make a killing with affiliate sales tend to mention a product more than once. This not only works to reinforce that they believe in this product, they're a true advocate for it, but it also serves them well because different members of their audience sees their content at different times. If they have a blog, it's much easier to keep these links organized and mention them when relevant. So for example, in those gift guide posts or in those how to blog posts, you can just mention the product, but for creating any other sort of online content, that gets a little trickier. Take for example, Instagram fashion content creators. This one in particular has 30,000 followers. 30 to 40 links in her link tree added all together at once in a jumble of things. If you happen to come across one of her reels, which again are shown at random and you can see it months after it's been posted, you would have to scroll through these 30 to 40 links to find the link to a skirt that you just saw in one post. So it's not only hard for them to keep the list updated, but also keep it relevant to what people are looking for. The best thing you can do to solve this issue is to create a resource page or library. This is basically a sh- shop page of all your favorites and it allows you to include multiple products but only have one link to share. So it's much easier to guide your audience to find a click on that link and for them to browse through that page because ideally you would keep it a little bit more organized and it would be much more. For people to kind of scroll through that page in the categories you've created in there. Amazon influencers kind of get a shortcut to that and they get that influencer shop page. But this isn't a feature that's available to Amazon affiliates. Go figure. But you can still. still create a dupe of it using Amazon links, but on your own website. That's exactly what I've done for my blog. And the news is you can create that page for absolutely free. You can build it with Elementor, which is a free drag and drop plugin. It allows you to create stunning pages and all you have to do is go into plugins, go search add new plugin and search for Elementor. Once you activate the plugin, you can create a page and just click edit with Elementor. Name your page something intuitive like my favorite pics or Anna's recommendations. Try to keep Amazon out of the title because Once again, Amazon and their rules don't want you to use their title on pages that obviously are not Amazon pages. I like to add multiple columns to make everything tidy and make it easier for people to kind of scroll past without having to scroll past 20 lines of product when they can be organized into like five columns. And you can paste the Amazon HTML code to get the images straight from Amazon as well as embed those text links to buttons or text. Remember that if you want to display the price or the prime. badge you will need to do it through the lasso plugin you can do that manually but you can organize it in sections such as under fifty dollars under a hundred dollars if it's a bit more vague and there you have it once you build this page you can come back to it edit anytime you like it update it in terms of what you're promoting or the categories that you've added without having to change the main link that you're sharing so the link for the page will always stay the same you can embed it onto your socials or somewhere in your content once and then edit the page itself anytime you need to the The fourth place where you can add Amazon affiliate links is on your website menu. So now that you've created your favorites page or your resource library, you need to help people find it. When you create pages on a blog, especially a WordPress blog, they don't display anywhere on a website unless you add it to your menu. So the easiest way to get people to find your research page is added to your main menu. You'll see that I have my resource library linked in my menu and the coffee blog has something as their buying guides, big and bold. there again, making it super easy for people who are like, yeah, we're here to purchase something, go and find it. And you'll notice that a lot of content creators will have similar setups such as a shop, my favorites page or a what to buy link. Again, you can get creative with that, but the goal is to make that page easy to find. The fifth place where you can share Amazon affiliate links is on your blogs sidebar. That is a place that gets a lot of eyeballs and traffic because it's shown automatically on the side of every single article or post you have on your blog. So it's a great opportunity to either promote specific products or have a banner leading once again to your resource page where you have all of them neatly organized. These home decor bloggers have both. They display a couple of their favorite home finds in the sidebar with direct Amazon affiliate links embedded. And they also have a button to their entire shop or resource page for people who want browse for more. My recommendation is to create a tall banner for it, like a Pinterest size banner, like this one on a recipe blog. Just say something like shop my favorites or check out my monthly picks. Try avoiding writing Amazon in there as you can get kicked out for it as an Amazon affiliate. But in this particular example, they're an Amazon influencer, so they're allowed to do it. Moving on to number six, the next place where you can add direct Amazon affiliate links is in your YouTube video descriptions. So if you post video content instead of blog content this is something that you can really use to your advantage the amazon sidestripe allows you to copy a shortened link of the amazon affiliate links that look really clean and breezy and that you can easily embed and paste into any video description box so it is important to use their shortened version but avoid avoid avoid using any other shortener like bitly or any other redirection website to display those instead as amazon forbids it you'll see for example example, this home decor creator, they have multiple of the products that they're talking about neatly organized and linked in there. She also organized them by room, which is a really interesting approach and probably works very well for her niche. Or this fashion creator who lists the items she tries on in this fashion haul in order in her description, adding a little text behind it to tell people what the link is about. Also super important. Don't just dump 20 links and let people figure out which link is which. If you talk about a problem that can be solved by a product. product, link it in your video description. You want to keep those links towards the top of your description, just because sometimes people do not scroll all the way to the bottom. Even if you don't happen to mention any products in some of your YouTube videos, you can still add something like a mini list. of your favorites towards the bottom of your description. I make this part of my usual YouTube description template. So there's one little section like that towards the bottom, but those are a few general, but curated recommendations for my audience that I think would be a good fit. So for example, If you have a channel all about productivity, you can still have a little mini list towards the bottom of your video description, sharing your favorite productivity tools, including a few Amazon productivity planners or timers or whatever else it is. While you're talking, ask people. people to check the video description for those handy links. And once again, keep in mind, you can only add Amazon affiliate links to videos that are public, no private or unlisted videos. The seventh place where you can add Amazon affiliate links is in your YouTube comments. So beyond the video description, you can engage with people in the comments and leave Amazon affiliate links there. Sometimes people don't expand the description of the videos at all, but while they're watching the video, they will just browse the comment section. How many of us do that? I know I do. So take advantage of wandering eyes and include a few strategic affiliate links in there. You can actually pin your own comment to the top. So the first thing they see when they scroll to the comment section and you can have a call to action for people to check out a couple of your top recommendations. Again don't clutter this with all the affiliate links you have for that video. Just focus on one or two affiliate links. If you pay attention you can see YouTube content creators do that all the time in their videos. They draw attention to one specific link. that they want people to click on after watching the video. The eighth place where you can add Amazon affiliate links is within your YouTube links. When you have a YouTube channel, they allow you to add several links to your channel. These show up when people check out your channel homepage or details. You can, of course, use this space to bridge that community to reach you out on your other social media platforms or your blog, but this is also a brilliant place to add your resource page or shop my favorites page. People who end up on this page page are usually very engaged and they want to learn more about you. So this is a brilliant spot to add a few links either, like I said, to your resource page where they can browse for more because it feels more like you've done the job and you're not just asking for a sale, but you're helping them discover good products, or if you're really passionate about a specific product, you can also add a direct Amazon affiliate link. The next place where you can add Amazon affiliate links is on any public social media profiles and posts. Anywhere online where you have an account. where other people can see your posts, even if they don't follow you. Those are all places where you can embed Amazon affiliate links. This includes public Instagram profiles, the bio links on Instagram, any Instagram story links, public Facebook posts. So again, these need to be visible to everyone, not just your Facebook friends. Public Facebook groups. So again, even non-members can see the posts. Private groups are a no-no from Amazon because they can't track the links. Tweets, your TikTok profile, and so on. Most of these social media media platforms only allow you to add one link in your main profile. So the smartest way about this is to use Linktree or one of the alternatives. These are basically mini pages where you can link to different resources. I actually created my own Linktree alternative, just using Elementor and making super simple buttons and a blank page. If you have a website and you have Elementor, you can build that for yourself, or you can use one of these kind of free Linktree alternatives. Just remember, you cannot send Amazon affiliate. links in private conversations or any private communities. And the 10th and final place where you can promote Amazon affiliate links is in public groups or forums. So for example, if you start your own Facebook group and it is a public group, you can share Amazon affiliate links in there. You can also do it in other people's public groups, but make sure to check out the group rules. Some of them don't allow affiliate links or promotion, but of course the best way to offer value and get clicks and sales when promoting Amazon affiliate links is to do it as a. service to people. So answer questions and post the Amazon product as a solution. If these groups tend to be private groups, so therefore you cannot share your direct affiliate link, the best way about it is to link to a blog post that you have answering those questions. So for example, I'm a member of a bunch of dog owner Facebook groups and whenever I see posts about people asking what's the best way to prevent or get rid of fleas instead of sending them an Amazon product, I answer the question and say, well, this is what worked for me and I actually have an entire article written about it. So that way I share the blog post link and I have Amazon links embedded in there. But because I'm not sharing the direct Amazon links, that means I can promote that specific blog post article anywhere I want. Once again, the idea is not to just comment on every post, but look out for targeted posts or questions. And you can do so just by browsing through them or use the search function within these Facebook groups to find what people are asking. If you don't have a lot of blog content out yet, you can still lead people to your resource. library just make sure that it organized. So if there's like reoccurring themes of things that you're promoting or people that are asking, make a little category or subcategory. And there you have it. These are 10 strategic places to share your Amazon affiliate links. You might have noticed a trend with these or with my advice. The goal here isn't to populate the internet with your affiliate links and just hope for the best because you're not going to make consistent sales by tricking or begging people into using your links. The goal is to create insightful content. informational content, even entertaining content, and help your audience make informed decisions about their purchases. And if you take my advice and create a resource library or shop my favorites page on your website first, you are free to share that link that is full of Amazon affiliate links anywhere online where Amazon doesn't allow you to share their direct links. So it's basically a big loophole that kind of goes around all these amazon rules without breaking them you can share these links in emails pdfs ebooks paperbacks in private conversations anywhere else that you want so give that a try and don't forget to also disclose your Amazon affiliate links. If you've just joined as an Amazon affiliate and you still need a little help making those first three initial sales so that you are qualified and that they approve your affiliate account, hop on into my free Facebook group for bloggers because we have a little help thread out there where people help each other makes those three sales. And if you enjoyed this video and learn something new, hit that like button and subscribe for more passive income tips and amazon affiliate tips in particular thank you so much for watching and for supporting my channel and i hope to see you soon

For example, you can't share your Amazon affiliate links anywhere in emails, in eBooks, in PDFs, in private communities or private conversations. So where can you share your links and how can you promote Amazon products? products effectively so that you get clicks and conversions and you don't risk getting kicked out of the affiliate program.

Keep watching to find out. Hi there, if you're new, my name is Anna and I help bloggers increase their passive income through affiliate commissions and smart blogging strategies. Speaking of smart strategies, here are 10 places where you can share your Amazon affiliate links online.

The number one best place to share Amazon affiliate link is on a website or within blog content. And I'm not just talking about putting it anywhere on a website that you can share your create or just blogging about amazon products i'm talking about placing amazon affiliate links within content targeted at solving someone's problem so in other words instead of going out there and sharing your amazon affiliate links saying buy this help me out here's a deal that you might not even be interested in you connect to an audience looking for answers information or inspiration online and you give them free value and tips and within that you strategically place Amazon affiliate links. For example, on one of my blogs, I wrote a post on the best way to remove ticks and fleas from dogs. In there, I recommend some super affordable and effective products at removing ticks from dogs. The article goes on to share how you can prevent ticks from attaching to your dog in the first place, how to get rid of them if you do encounter that problem.

So I include a few flea treatments and inserting affiliate links for it in the first place that act as a reminder for those dog owners currently reading. that might have forgotten to get the flea treatment this month so the article overall is meant to answer the question how to remove ticks from dogs but it also provides value on top of that so here's my advice write how-to articles that solve very niche problems and questions and because blog posts are public and they're online for anyone to see you are allowed to embed as many affiliate links as you want and you can even do so in multiple formats so you can include text links you can include the images and so on and this won't break any of amazon's rules if you don't have a website or a blog yet it's literally never been easier to start one just follow the steps in my tutorial on how to start a profitable blog i have both a youtube video on this and a free course that you can enroll in below and i personally recommend a self-hosted wordpress blog this means it's an independent blog you get full control you can monetize however you want and it's not built on a free platform but wordpress itself is a a free builder that's super customizable so you can create blogs that look nothing like other blogs out there or you can replicate some really smart designs that work for profitable blogs wordpress also comes with a library full of plugins that you can install and they add specific features that you want to your blog for example for my pet blog all the amazon affiliate links that you see are built with the lasso plugin and they create super branded looks for affiliate links that don't look as spammy and they also allow you to automatically automatically show the Prime badge and the price for each of these products. So when it comes to building an affiliate website, these are the two main things that you need. First of all, you need blog hosting and the second one, you need a good affiliate plugin for displaying and sharing and tracking your affiliate links.

Although you can just start by embedding affiliate links from Amazon to a blog without having a plugin, Lasso does help you get around some of those other Amazon pesky affiliate rules that don't allow you to display the price unless you update it every 24 hours, which Lasso automatically does for you. And they also notify you when products are out of stock so you can change the product recommendation so you don't get all this traffic coming to a blog, clicking on a link that's out of stock and then leaving without making a sale. You can also see the Lasso affiliate plugin in action on this coffee blog that I love that I'll show you right here.

And basically you can see the difference on how they branded their display boxes versus how it's branded on my main blog or on my pet blog. So you can basically cut. customize it so it looks nothing alike and it fits your branding and it fits the purpose and you can even create links or comparison tables my link for lasso is below if you want to give it a try it is an affiliate link but i pay for this tool out of pocket every single year and it is so worth it because it has increased my affiliate conversions and sales not to mention that my websites just look a little bit more professional and clean and people can easily spot affiliate links instead of trying to find just a little little text links that I include in blog posts. But if you want to manually add your Amazon links to blogs, I also have a tutorial on how to do that with the size stripe.

and just overpress blog. So you can do that if you want to take that path. If you're new to Amazon affiliates, here's a super quick crash course tutorial on how to grab your Amazon affiliate links. Log into your Amazon associates account. You need to create one before this step, but it is free to do and you don't have to wait for them to approve you.

Once you're logged in, go to Amazon as normal as you're browsing as a shopper, pick a product and look out for this site stripe. Once you find that, click on get link, usually for the text option or one of the. the other two if you want to embed it as an image as well. Once you have that, follow my other tutorial, go to your blog and include it in there. That is also how you grab the link to share on any other of the nine steps that follow.

Speaking of which, the second place where you can embed Amazon affiliate links is in gift guides or product comparison posts. These kind of posts and content really convert because once again, they address a specific need. Not to mention that there is user intent to buy. So both people who are looking at at gift guides and people who are looking at different product recommendations and comparison articles are looking to decide between one of the products in there to buy.

You'll see an example of that on in this article on the best french press coffees and it basically goes through all the features and the different needs that somebody who might want to get into brewing their own coffee at home and it addresses that specific need and it compares a couple of the top ones that they consider to be the best. And you've probably probably been there whether deciding which iPhone to buy, which vacuum cleaner to buy, or anything else that you have bought and have given a little bit more consideration to, you probably have done some research and landed on some of these product comparison posts. That's why they convert so well.

Gift guides are also surprisingly effective. For example, my gift guide of what to buy quirky owners or moms. You can create this type of content on almost any platform.

So having it set up in a blog format definitely definitely works very, very well. But if you put together any type of video content, you can talk about that. If you post on YouTube, if you just have an online community or an email list or newsletter. And the reason why I say they work a little better for blog posts is because you're able to insert the Amazon links for every single product as people are reading through it. While it might be a little harder to do that for video content, for example, or on specific platforms, you might only be able to leave one link rather than link to the whole product.

I'm going to walk you through how to share Amazon affiliate links for all these other social media platforms. Try to find either product comparison posts or gift guide ideas that work for your niche and create some content for it, especially leading up to things like the holidays. But once again, the trick is to keep these gift guides and posts very specific to your audience. That is truly the thing that's going to matter the most when it comes to conversions and sales through your links, because nobody's searching for best iPhones to buy on my pet blog, right? Even something something like best gifts for dog owners is way too broad.

Instead, what I did is I wrote specific gift guides for specific dog breeds or dog lovers, and you can do the same for almost every top thing. Best gifts for a gamer boyfriend or best gifts for a coffee lover under $50. Moving on, the third best place to share affiliate links, especially from Amazon, is in resource pages or libraries. So you might have noticed that bloggers and content creators creators who tend to make a killing with affiliate sales tend to mention a product more than once.

This not only works to reinforce that they believe in this product, they're a true advocate for it, but it also serves them well because different members of their audience sees their content at different times. If they have a blog, it's much easier to keep these links organized and mention them when relevant. So for example, in those gift guide posts or in those how to blog posts, you can just mention the product, but for creating any other sort of online content, that gets a little trickier.

Take for example, Instagram fashion content creators. This one in particular has 30,000 followers. 30 to 40 links in her link tree added all together at once in a jumble of things.

If you happen to come across one of her reels, which again are shown at random and you can see it months after it's been posted, you would have to scroll through these 30 to 40 links to find the link to a skirt that you just saw in one post. So it's not only hard for them to keep the list updated, but also keep it relevant to what people are looking for. The best thing you can do to solve this issue is to create a resource page or library. This is basically a sh- shop page of all your favorites and it allows you to include multiple products but only have one link to share. So it's much easier to guide your audience to find a click on that link and for them to browse through that page because ideally you would keep it a little bit more organized and it would be much more.

For people to kind of scroll through that page in the categories you've created in there. Amazon influencers kind of get a shortcut to that and they get that influencer shop page. But this isn't a feature that's available to Amazon affiliates.

Go figure. But you can still. still create a dupe of it using Amazon links, but on your own website. That's exactly what I've done for my blog.

And the news is you can create that page for absolutely free. You can build it with Elementor, which is a free drag and drop plugin. It allows you to create stunning pages and all you have to do is go into plugins, go search add new plugin and search for Elementor.

Once you activate the plugin, you can create a page and just click edit with Elementor. Name your page something intuitive like my favorite pics or Anna's recommendations. Try to keep Amazon out of the title because Once again, Amazon and their rules don't want you to use their title on pages that obviously are not Amazon pages. I like to add multiple columns to make everything tidy and make it easier for people to kind of scroll past without having to scroll past 20 lines of product when they can be organized into like five columns.

And you can paste the Amazon HTML code to get the images straight from Amazon as well as embed those text links to buttons or text. Remember that if you want to display the price or the prime. badge you will need to do it through the lasso plugin you can do that manually but you can organize it in sections such as under fifty dollars under a hundred dollars if it's a bit more vague and there you have it once you build this page you can come back to it edit anytime you like it update it in terms of what you're promoting or the categories that you've added without having to change the main link that you're sharing so the link for the page will always stay the same you can embed it onto your socials or somewhere in your content once and then edit the page itself anytime you need to the The fourth place where you can add Amazon affiliate links is on your website menu. So now that you've created your favorites page or your resource library, you need to help people find it.

When you create pages on a blog, especially a WordPress blog, they don't display anywhere on a website unless you add it to your menu. So the easiest way to get people to find your research page is added to your main menu. You'll see that I have my resource library linked in my menu and the coffee blog has something as their buying guides, big and bold.

there again, making it super easy for people who are like, yeah, we're here to purchase something, go and find it. And you'll notice that a lot of content creators will have similar setups such as a shop, my favorites page or a what to buy link. Again, you can get creative with that, but the goal is to make that page easy to find.

The fifth place where you can share Amazon affiliate links is on your blogs sidebar. That is a place that gets a lot of eyeballs and traffic because it's shown automatically on the side of every single article or post you have on your blog. So it's a great opportunity to either promote specific products or have a banner leading once again to your resource page where you have all of them neatly organized. These home decor bloggers have both.

They display a couple of their favorite home finds in the sidebar with direct Amazon affiliate links embedded. And they also have a button to their entire shop or resource page for people who want browse for more. My recommendation is to create a tall banner for it, like a Pinterest size banner, like this one on a recipe blog.

Just say something like shop my favorites or check out my monthly picks. Try avoiding writing Amazon in there as you can get kicked out for it as an Amazon affiliate. But in this particular example, they're an Amazon influencer, so they're allowed to do it.

Moving on to number six, the next place where you can add direct Amazon affiliate links is in your YouTube video descriptions. So if you post video content instead of blog content this is something that you can really use to your advantage the amazon sidestripe allows you to copy a shortened link of the amazon affiliate links that look really clean and breezy and that you can easily embed and paste into any video description box so it is important to use their shortened version but avoid avoid avoid using any other shortener like bitly or any other redirection website to display those instead as amazon forbids it you'll see for example example, this home decor creator, they have multiple of the products that they're talking about neatly organized and linked in there. She also organized them by room, which is a really interesting approach and probably works very well for her niche.

Or this fashion creator who lists the items she tries on in this fashion haul in order in her description, adding a little text behind it to tell people what the link is about. Also super important. Don't just dump 20 links and let people figure out which link is which. If you talk about a problem that can be solved by a product. product, link it in your video description.

You want to keep those links towards the top of your description, just because sometimes people do not scroll all the way to the bottom. Even if you don't happen to mention any products in some of your YouTube videos, you can still add something like a mini list. of your favorites towards the bottom of your description.

I make this part of my usual YouTube description template. So there's one little section like that towards the bottom, but those are a few general, but curated recommendations for my audience that I think would be a good fit. So for example, If you have a channel all about productivity, you can still have a little mini list towards the bottom of your video description, sharing your favorite productivity tools, including a few Amazon productivity planners or timers or whatever else it is.

While you're talking, ask people. people to check the video description for those handy links. And once again, keep in mind, you can only add Amazon affiliate links to videos that are public, no private or unlisted videos. The seventh place where you can add Amazon affiliate links is in your YouTube comments.

So beyond the video description, you can engage with people in the comments and leave Amazon affiliate links there. Sometimes people don't expand the description of the videos at all, but while they're watching the video, they will just browse the comment section. How many of us do that?

I know I do. So take advantage of wandering eyes and include a few strategic affiliate links in there. You can actually pin your own comment to the top.

So the first thing they see when they scroll to the comment section and you can have a call to action for people to check out a couple of your top recommendations. Again don't clutter this with all the affiliate links you have for that video. Just focus on one or two affiliate links. If you pay attention you can see YouTube content creators do that all the time in their videos.

They draw attention to one specific link. that they want people to click on after watching the video. The eighth place where you can add Amazon affiliate links is within your YouTube links.

When you have a YouTube channel, they allow you to add several links to your channel. These show up when people check out your channel homepage or details. You can, of course, use this space to bridge that community to reach you out on your other social media platforms or your blog, but this is also a brilliant place to add your resource page or shop my favorites page. People who end up on this page page are usually very engaged and they want to learn more about you.

So this is a brilliant spot to add a few links either, like I said, to your resource page where they can browse for more because it feels more like you've done the job and you're not just asking for a sale, but you're helping them discover good products, or if you're really passionate about a specific product, you can also add a direct Amazon affiliate link. The next place where you can add Amazon affiliate links is on any public social media profiles and posts. Anywhere online where you have an account. where other people can see your posts, even if they don't follow you.

Those are all places where you can embed Amazon affiliate links. This includes public Instagram profiles, the bio links on Instagram, any Instagram story links, public Facebook posts. So again, these need to be visible to everyone, not just your Facebook friends.

Public Facebook groups. So again, even non-members can see the posts. Private groups are a no-no from Amazon because they can't track the links. Tweets, your TikTok profile, and so on.

Most of these social media media platforms only allow you to add one link in your main profile. So the smartest way about this is to use Linktree or one of the alternatives. These are basically mini pages where you can link to different resources.

I actually created my own Linktree alternative, just using Elementor and making super simple buttons and a blank page. If you have a website and you have Elementor, you can build that for yourself, or you can use one of these kind of free Linktree alternatives. Just remember, you cannot send Amazon affiliate.

links in private conversations or any private communities. And the 10th and final place where you can promote Amazon affiliate links is in public groups or forums. So for example, if you start your own Facebook group and it is a public group, you can share Amazon affiliate links in there.

You can also do it in other people's public groups, but make sure to check out the group rules. Some of them don't allow affiliate links or promotion, but of course the best way to offer value and get clicks and sales when promoting Amazon affiliate links is to do it as a. service to people. So answer questions and post the Amazon product as a solution. If these groups tend to be private groups, so therefore you cannot share your direct affiliate link, the best way about it is to link to a blog post that you have answering those questions.

So for example, I'm a member of a bunch of dog owner Facebook groups and whenever I see posts about people asking what's the best way to prevent or get rid of fleas instead of sending them an Amazon product, I answer the question and say, well, this is what worked for me and I actually have an entire article written about it. So that way I share the blog post link and I have Amazon links embedded in there. But because I'm not sharing the direct Amazon links, that means I can promote that specific blog post article anywhere I want. Once again, the idea is not to just comment on every post, but look out for targeted posts or questions.

And you can do so just by browsing through them or use the search function within these Facebook groups to find what people are asking. If you don't have a lot of blog content out yet, you can still lead people to your resource. library just make sure that it organized.

So if there's like reoccurring themes of things that you're promoting or people that are asking, make a little category or subcategory. And there you have it. These are 10 strategic places to share your Amazon affiliate links. You might have noticed a trend with these or with my advice.

The goal here isn't to populate the internet with your affiliate links and just hope for the best because you're not going to make consistent sales by tricking or begging people into using your links. The goal is to create insightful content. informational content, even entertaining content, and help your audience make informed decisions about their purchases.

And if you take my advice and create a resource library or shop my favorites page on your website first, you are free to share that link that is full of Amazon affiliate links anywhere online where Amazon doesn't allow you to share their direct links. So it's basically a big loophole that kind of goes around all these amazon rules without breaking them you can share these links in emails pdfs ebooks paperbacks in private conversations anywhere else that you want so give that a try and don't forget to also disclose your Amazon affiliate links. If you've just joined as an Amazon affiliate and you still need a little help making those first three initial sales so that you are qualified and that they approve your affiliate account, hop on into my free Facebook group for bloggers because we have a little help thread out there where people help each other makes those three sales. And if you enjoyed this video and learn something new, hit that like button and subscribe for more passive income tips and amazon affiliate tips in particular thank you so much for watching and for supporting my channel and i hope to see you soon

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Effective Strategies for Amazon Affiliates