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Amazon Makes It Easy! By Arlene Martell James and I joined the Amazon affiliate program (called Amazon associates) years ago and have been receiving checks ever since. Lately, I have used Amazon.com to find some great products to offer my EpilepsyMoms.com site and they make real easy for me to add them.
Amazon has a cool logo. As you can see in the photo it is an arrow leading from A to Z, representing customer satisfaction (as it forms a smile). Amazon is popular - it's website attracted at least 615 million visitors annually by 2008. They offer a "search inside the book" feature which gives buyers a sneak peek and really helped sales. They also sell books on the increasingly popular Kindle reader. This is why I want Amazon on my site - they are well known and have a great reputation! Products added to my site:
Like any merchant, they pay me a commission every time a sale is made from my affiliate link on my site. What I like about Amazon, is that when someone makes a purchase, they also recommend 3 more products the consumer might be interested in that is similar to their purchase. What I am finding, is that once they are in Amazon, they start looking around at other products and although most of my sales are Epilepsy or kid related - I get lots of sales for items that are completely unrelated. It is very cool.
Adding products to my site is a breeze and they have a really cool toolbar they call a "site strip" to make it so easy. Choose from:
The site stripe is very handy. I can do a search for the product I want, then simply click "Link to this page" and it sets up the link for my automatically. They also have a feature called "link checker" which is used to check to make sure your Amazon links are valid. All the best,
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Amazon,
based out of Seattle
Washington, launched online
in 1995 as an online
bookstore. Today, it has
expanded it's product line
to include VHS, DVD, music
CDs and MP3s, computer
software, video games,
electronics, apparel,
furniture, food, toys,
beauty care, musical
instruments, lawn and garden
and much more. Amazon has
established separate
websites in Canada, the
United Kingdom, Germany,
France, China, and Japan.
Amazon's
Interface:
