A lot of people dream about making income online. Better yet, if it’s passive income. Who wouldn’t like spending just a few hours a day (or a week) to work on their online business, and watch as the dollars roll in every day, every month? It’s the ultimate goal for many people.

Which begs the question, is it really achievable? If so, how can you do it yourself?

One of the most popular online income opportunities lies in affiliate marketing. And the most popular among all (after Clickbank and ShareASale) is Amazon’s affiliate program – also known as Amazon Associates.

What is Amazon Associates

Amazon Associates is the official name for Amazon’s affiliate program. Anyone can register to be an Amazon Associate and earn an affiliate commission from almost any product available in Amazon.

Commissions are paid based on clicks that lead to a sale (within 24 hours) on Amazon through an Amazon affiliate link. There is a commission fee structure that varies from 1% to 10% based on different product categories.

For example, if your affiliate link points to a product that costs $25 and has a fee of 5%, your affiliate commission will be $25 x 5% = 1.25$.

The majority of Amazon Associates share affiliate links on their own blog or website, while others share it through their YouTube videos.

Most affiliates operate in large markets for Amazon Associates like UK, India, Canada, USA, and Australia.

(Click here to learn about how to get started and register for an Amazon Associate account)

Why choose Amazon Associates

Let’s be real. There’s no such thing as the perfect affiliate program out there. Different programs have their own pros and cons, and it all depends on what you want to market, promote and ultimately sell.

It also depends on what is your goal. Are you looking for a modest secondary income, or do you want to quit your full-time job and be a full-time affiliate earning passive income? It’s possible either way, provided you work hard, be patient, and do it right.

Other than Amazon Associates program, the next two biggest and most popular affiliate networks are Clickbank and ShareASale. But why should you go with Amazon instead? Here’s a summary:

• Consumers and online shoppers trust Amazon’s brand.
• Millions of people browse and shop on Amazon every month.
• The variety of products offered on Amazon is massive.

Those three reasons alone are strong enough for most affiliates to earn a decent amount of income through Amazon. Though admittedly, one of the biggest drawbacks to being an Amazon Associate is its relatively low affiliate commission fees compared to other affiliate programs. But don’t worry, there are ways to work around it.

Is $1000 monthly income as an Amazon Associate possible?

Earning a thousand dollars a month through Amazon is not as easy as most people think, but it’s definitely possible! Lots of people have done it and still do it on a regular basis. But of course, seeing that kind of numbers in your Amazon Associates dashboard will take time and a lot of effort.

Some even make five figures every month from relatively small Amazon affiliate websites, like this one:

You may be able to hit $1,000 in Amazon affiliate income in a month, or maybe it’ll take over a year for you to get there. For some, they may even struggle to get past a few hundred dollars a month. There’s no guarantee to this exercise nor a fool-proof plan.

The beauty about aiming to get your first $1000 is that it’ll be a specific, measurable goal that you can work hard towards. Once you hit that milestone, scaling your income to higher figures won’t seem that far out of reach.

Calculating your Amazon Associates commissions

Now, let’s do the numbers. The best way to look at this is to work backwards, using average and estimated clicks and conversion rates:

• Percentage of web visitors that clicks on your Amazon affiliate links = 10%
• Estimated conversion rate on Amazon = 2%
• Average commission fee for all products promoted = 5%
• Target total commissions for 1 month = $1,000

Let’s then assume that your website is getting 100,000 visits a month. Based on the estimated numbers above, you should be receiving around 200 converted clicks on Amazon (that resulted in a sale).

If the average price of your promoted products is $25 with an average commission fee of 5%, your total commission for 200 conversions will be $250.

Since that is much lower than your targeted income of $1,000 per month, you’ll need to multiply your web traffic by 4x to at least 400,000 visits per month.

On the other hand, if your product’s average price is $100 at a commission fee of 5%, the total commission may reach $1,000.

As you’ll soon realize, there’s no exact science for how to get $1,000 per month on a consistent basis. But these calculations will give you an idea of a baseline that you can work towards, then improvise and improve further to achieve your targeted income figure.

Note: Amazon affiliate income rarely stays consistent month-to-month. It often varies, based on searchers’ behaviour, trends and seasonal fluctuations. Your monthly Amazon Associates profits will be a monthly average based on the cumulative total affiliate income for the year.

How to be a smart and successful Amazon Associate

From the commission calculations in the previous section and the commission structure of between 1% to 10% set by Amazon, you’ll notice that there is more than one way to scale your affiliate income. And there is always a smarter and more efficient way to do that.

Amazon affiliates can be broken down to two categories – those big sellers and the niche sellers. In essence, there are two primary ways to earn an income as an Amazon Associate:

1. Sell in larger volumes.
2. Sell higher ticket items.

The first option can allow you to sell more mainstream products or run a blog or website with a mass appeal to maximize the number of visits and clicks through your Amazon affiliate links. The second option will largely require you to sell niche products that are promoted through a niche or specialized blog or website.

Either option will require a lot of work, and it may take time. Most importantly, any work you put in will need to see one most important metric – a high amount of organic visits through search.

Creating a high converting website that attracts a lot of organic clicks

Being a successful Amazon Associate depends on how many clicks does your affiliate links get and how well they convert on Amazon.

That means you’ll need a website (to share your affiliate links) that can not only attract a lot of organic visits but also be designed in such a way that will help to maximize conversion once a user clicks on your affiliate link and land on Amazon.

Now, this is important especially if you’re planning to be an Amazon affiliate for the first time. Once you register and get approved to be an Amazon Associate, you will be kicked off the program if your account doesn’t record a sale within the first 90 days.

Which is why the first and most important part of the work needs to be done at the beginning – building a website that has solid SEO.

Why SEO is the key to affiliate marketing

If you’re looking for the largest amount of organic traffic at the lowest cost, there’s no better option than SEO.

Sure, you can use Google Ads or Facebook Ads to draw clicks to your blog or website, but the ROI will rarely justify the amount you’ll be spending on ads. On top of that, getting web traffic through paid ads are not scalable.

With SEO, once you do your groundwork and maintain it regularly, you’ll be able to see a consistent amount of traffic over a long period of time. And that kind of ROI is definitely suitable for affiliate products like Amazon.

As an affiliate marketer, the most cost-efficient type of traffic is SEO.

How to grow traffic to your Amazon affiliate website

If you’ve never built and grown your own blog or website, and if you’re new to SEO, don’t worry. It’s not exactly rocket science. But you’ll definitely need a lot of hard work, patience, attention to detail, and some basic analytical skills.

Once you’ve registered for a domain, paid for web hosting, finalized the layout or template for your chosen content platform (e.g. WordPress), the next and most important step is to start creating content.

To grow traffic to your website, you’ll need SEO. Your content needs to be optimized for search and be easily discoverable for people searching for your type of product. Most importantly, you need to have good, solid content.

Here are the steps that you’ll need to take if you want to improve your website’s SEO:

1. Identify your products or niche by researching on Amazon and Google Trends.
2. Begin with keyword research, before writing your content.
3. Use both high volume focus keywords and lower volume long tail keywords.
4. Create compelling content and focus on quality, not quantity.
5. Create social media channels (and find other channels) to distribute your content.

The steps may seem simple, but the process will be tedious and in most cases, it will take time to see an increase in traffic to your website. Especially if yours is still fresh and new. It can take months for all your SEO and content work to see a positive impact, so be patient.

Using a good keyword tool to skyrocket your Amazon blog

Once you’ve identified your niche or type of products you’d like to promote through Amazon affiliate, the next step will be keyword research. This process often takes a lot of time and detailed analysis.

You’ll need to dive deep in your niche or product category to find relevant, suitable keywords to use in your blog or website’s content. To do this, you can either use Google search or Google Keyword Planner. It works to a certain level, though you’ll only get a rough overview of what type of related keywords people might be searching for.

You won’t be able to get important data like keyword volumes, trends, and competition level. On top of that, doing manual keyword research without insight into its actual data can be very tedious and yield inaccurate results.

Instead, you can use Keyword Tool. It’s an incredibly easy-to-use tool that makes keyword research a lot easier and quicker. The paid version, Keyword Tool Pro, gives accurate and real-time data like keyword volumes, trends, cost-per-click (CPC), and competition level.

To start building your Amazon affiliate website’s content with the right type of keywords that people are searching for, you’ll need to:

1. Identify the niche or product category you’d like to target.
2. Do keyword research and find relevant focus keywords and long tail keywords.
3. Create content topics around your keywords.
4. Write your content (in no less than 1,000 words) and insert the appropriate keywords in the title tags, meta description, and image alt tags.

These steps are the core tasks that you’ll need to do in order to ensure your Amazon affiliate website is well optimized with the right keywords. As you can see, every single piece of your content needs to be built around its related keywords. And it all starts with keyword research using a tool like Keyword Tool.

How to use Keyword Tool to increase organic clicks to your Amazon affiliate blog

Keyword Tool is incredibly easy to use and packed with tonnes of data that will be useful for your SEO efforts.

There are many ways to use the tool, such as:

• Finding high volume keywords to maximize the number of organic clicks to your website.
• Identifying long tail keywords that are lower volume but has higher conversion rates.
• Understanding keyword trends, and thus, gaining an insight into searcher habits and consumer behaviour (for a month-to-month and yearly overview).
• Gaining insight into the competitiveness of different keywords, in order to improve the optimization efficiency of your desired keywords.

These are all the type of valuable data and insights that you’ll be able to get by doing keyword research using Keyword Tool Pro. To help make this process easier for you, here’s a simple step-by-step guide on how to make the most out of the tool:

1. Choose a niche (or product category)

Let’s say you’ve decided to go with the organic baby products niche. You’ve done the numbers and it looks like that’s a fast-growing and popular niche. But what is the search trends like in this category?

Head over to Keyword Tool and key in “organic baby products” to the search bar:

After pressing enter (or clicking the search icon), the results page will show you the total number of unique keywords and the monthly trend over the past 12 months. It also shows the average cost-per-click (CPC) and competition level. Then, scroll down to see the list of generated keywords based on your organic baby products niche:

2. Study the keyword trends (to understand search seasonalities)

Keyword trends can show you many things, like what do people search for and when. It shines a light on to search behaviour and consumer habits, especially when you’re looking for the type of keywords that an online shopper would use to either find a product to buy or learn more about it (before purchasing).

As you can see, your chosen category keyword (or focus keyword) of “organic baby products” has a decent volume of 4,400 searches per month. Now, let’s look at the overall trend for your focus keyword. Click on the blue colored chart icon to expand that keyword’s trend chart:

Comparing the previous chart showing the average trend of all the keywords shown in “Keyword Suggestions” and the chart above for the focus keyword “organic baby products,” there’s one trend that you can see clearly – there’s a larger and more consistent search volume between the months of March to August.

You can now use this data to create content and plan your content distribution schedule that matches with the search trend of your chosen niche. One way is to ramp up your content creation and publish them consistently within these months, another way is to ensure that you distribute them as widely as possible during that period – through email marketing, social media, and influencer marketing – to maximize your website’s reach.

3. Identify the right keywords and use them strategically

The baby products industry is a huge market. It’s growing rapidly and definitely lucrative, but it’s also highly competitive. As you can see from the quick search on Keyword Tool, the keywords found in organic baby products niche are also pretty competitive.

The competition level is rather high at 1.00 (the competition metric on Keyword Tool for high is between the range of 0.70 to 1.00). Even the long tail keywords have high keyword competition levels. So, how do we tackle this problem? You’ll need to find more related keywords.

To do that, scroll up and click on the “Related Keywords” tab:

There is now a larger list of keywords with more than 4 million search volume! Now, let’s scroll down and see what we have:

You now have a wider variety of search terms to use alongside your focus keyword. This part of your keyword research can not only result in a larger pool of high volume keywords but also give you product ideas and content angles.

High volume keywords are great to draw in a lot of clicks, but if you want the traffic to convert, you’ll also need to rank for long tail keywords. They are usually lower in search volume but people who use long tail keywords have a higher likelihood of having purchase intent.

When looking for keywords for conversion optimization, it’s a good idea to find keywords that have a bare minimum of 100 monthly search volume but less than 1,000 searches. Long tail keywords are also a lot less competitive than more popular, higher volume focus keywords.

To find your low competition but high converting long tail keywords, click on the “Competition” tab in the results page to show keywords arranged in descending order of competition (from low to high competition):

Scroll down to find long tail keywords with at least a search volume of 100:

And voila! From these two long tail keywords alone, you can create 2 detailed articles:

1. 5 Must-Have Certified Organic Products for Your Baby
2. A Comparison Between Two of the Best Baby Product Companies

Keep scrolling and looking, including searching for different keyword permutations (or synonyms) to find more low to medium competition and high converting long tail keywords.

Remember, SEO is a long term game. And so is earning a good income as an Amazon Associate. If you’re looking for passive income, there’s no better combo than using SEO to grow your affiliate marketing website.

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Many of you might not know this, but Amazon actually started with affiliate marketing when they first began operations in 1995. Jeff Bezos was operating Amazon as an online book retailer and had a very limited marketing budget.

To solve this problem, he introduced the Amazon Associates program that gives a commission to every referral to Amazon that converted into a sale. It was a fantastic solution that’s cost-effective for the brand while opening an opportunity for people to make money online.

Fast forward to today, Amazon Associates enables nearly anyone with a laptop and an internet connection to make profits online through promoting millions of new and used Amazon products.

Contents

• What is Amazon Affiliate program
• How Amazon Affiliate works
• How to start affiliate marketing with Amazon
• How to setup Amazon Affiliate (and start to earn money on Amazon)
• Amazon vs. Clickbank: Which is a better affiliate marketing partner?
• How to do Amazon Affiliate marketing like a seasoned veteran
• Grow and optimize your Amazon affiliate website
• Understand consumer behavior on Amazon
• Find a winning Amazon product through a good keyword tool
• Summary
  

What is Amazon Affiliate program

Amazon Affiliate (also known as the Amazon Associates program) is a referral program where you will be compensated for sending traffic from your website to Amazon that converts into a sale.

Once the referrer makes a purchase, you will be paid a commission of a certain percentage from the item’s sale price.

Note: Amazon Affiliate (where commissions are made based on referrals to Amazon.com that converts to a sale) shouldn’t be confused with Amazon sellers or Amazon FBA operators (where individuals or companies open an Amazon store to sell products on Amazon.com).

How Amazon Affiliate works

Just like how affiliate marketing generally works, Amazon Associates members make money through commissions paid by every referred traffic that purchases a product on Amazon. Here’s how it works:

When visitors on your website clicks an Amazon referral link, they will land on Amazon.com with a cookie which lasts for 24 hours. If they make any purchase on the platform within 24 hours, you’ll be paid a fee based on the commission bracket of the item. But if they purchase after the first 24 hours, you won’t be paid a fee.

There is also a list of strict terms and conditions that you need to adhere to to be a verified Amazon Associate member and get paid commissions. If you’re found to contravene any of their guidelines, you’ll risk your account being suspended or banned.

How to start affiliate marketing with Amazon

Affiliate marketing is by no means a get rich scheme. Behind the many affiliate marketing success stories you might’ve come across on YouTube or popular marketing blogs, it actually involves a lot of work.

Before you get started as an Amazon Associate and get into affiliate marketing, you need to have a place to redirect clicks to Amazon. And where might that be? Well, a website of course!

Getting traffic to your website takes a lot of effort, but you’ll find that converting those traffic to sales on Amazon is a different ball-game altogether. Though when it’s done right, you might be surprised at the amount of passive income you can get as an Amazon Associate.

Tips (and what to avoid) when creating and managing your affiliate marketing website

Before you get started with Amazon affiliate marketing, you need a website that attracts a healthy amount of targetted traffic. You’ll need to pour in a lot of time to build, manage, and create great content on your website.

If you’re new to this (or just looking to improve your web content), try these ideas:

• Don’t just focus on review-based content. Instead, try to provide something of value to your readers.
• Don’t create informational articles. DIY or “how to” articles rarely convert into sales.
• Spend time optimizing your articles for search engine optimization (SEO). But don’t forget to do off-page SEO optimization as well, especially getting quality backlinks.
• Do keyword research. Lots of it and for all your articles. Then, create articles out of the relevant, high-volume keywords that you find.
• Create both evergreen and trending articles to ensure they perform well (both short term and long term) on search.
• Improve and refresh your old content. Already have content on your website? Revamp, edit and refresh your old content. Try Brian Deen’s skyscraper content technique. TLDR: Make your content 10x better than other similar content out there.

Getting traffic will not be easy and may take months before you get a decent amount of organic visits to your site. But it’ll be well worth it in the long run. You’ll see why in the next segment of this article.

How to setup Amazon Affiliate (and start to earn money on Amazon)

Getting started with Amazon Affiliate is incredibly easy. All you need to do is:

1. Create an Amazon account (if you don’t already have one).
2. Visit the Amazon Associates homepage.
3. Click “Join Now for Free.”
4. You’ll be prompted to log into your Amazon account, just click Login.
5. Follow these next steps to build your Amazon Associates account:

Step 1: Enter your details in Account Information. You can either use your primary Amazon account address or enter a new one.

Step 2: Key in your website and/or mobile app URLs where you’ll be promoting your Amazon affiliate links.

Step 3: Start by entering your choice of Associates Store ID, then fill out the rest of the page’s form regarding the details of your profile, website, content category, and others. Be honest and make sure to fill every section.

Step 4: Before you can start using your Amazon Associates account, you’ll need to verify your identity. It works similar to most other company’s Know Your Customer (KYC) policies, and it’s an extremely important step. But don’t worry, it’s pretty quick and easy to settle.

Once you’ve successfully created your Amazon Associates account, you’ll arrive at your personal Amazon Associates dashboard where you’ll be asked to create your Amazon affiliate links. These are the links that you’ll be using on your website to drive traffic to Amazon.

Here’s an important disclaimer for all newly created accounts

If you have a newly created Amazon Affiliate account, you’ll need to make at least one sale within the first 180 days (which used to be 90 days). Failing which will lead to your account getting banned. If you ever find yourself in that unfortunate situation, fret not! You can reapply, and you’ll receive a new Amazon Affiliate ID.

The best way to avoid from getting banned by Amazon due to account inactivity is to make sure that your website already has a good amount of traffic. That way you can focus on optimizing past articles and creating new content with the end-goal of motivating your site visitors to click on your Amazon affiliate links.

How to create your Amazon affiliate links

Once you have created your Amazon Associate account, the last step before you can officially start affiliate marketing with Amazon is to create your very own Amazon affiliate links.

To do that, follow these steps:

1. Go to either “Quick Links: Search for Product” or “Browse for Product.”
2. Once you find a suitable product, click the “Get Link” button.
3. Choose to customize your links with text only, text and image, image only, or widget (you can also customize background color, title, color, and image size depending on the type of link).
4. Preview of the link before adding it to your site.
5. Copy and paste the link, Amazon short link, or HTML copy and insert it on your site.

Insert the Amazon links to your relevant articles, and you’re ready to go!

Since Amazon is very strict with how Amazon Associates use and promote their links, make sure you read their terms and conditions from start to finish. The last thing you want is to put your account in jeopardy of being banned.

Amazon vs. Clickbank: Which is a better affiliate marketing partner?

Whether you’re new to affiliate marketing or been around the space, you might’ve heard of Clickbank. There are many affiliate marketing programs out there, but Clickbank is by far one of the biggest and most popular among all. It’s hard to say which is better and  trickier to tell which program can help you make more money online.

Either way, you’ll need to compare its pros and cons to see which is more suitable for you. But more importantly, you’ll need to do your due diligence and decide which programs carry products that are more popular and available to a broader demographic.

1. Clickbank: Big commissions, questionable quality of products, poor user experience

Clickbank is incredibly popular and for a good reason. They offer a wide variety of products with large commissions that can range anywhere between 10% to well over 50%. On top of that, there are also subscription-based products where you’ll be able to earn recurring commissions from regular paying subscribers.

Although Clickbank is a favorite among many veteran affiliate marketers, their products are nowhere as popular or sought-after among consumers as those found on Amazon.

On the other hand, Amazon has spent a lot of resources that have turned the marketplace to become a customer converting beast. Every aspect of the platform has been fine-tuned to entice and encourage casual visitors to make impulse purchases. And make them keep coming back.

2. Amazon Associate: Low commissions, great marketplace, globally recognized brand

If there’s one drawback about Amazon Associates program is that they offer notoriously low commissions. Depending on the product category, it can range anywhere between 4% to 10%. They also have a relatively short cookie span. For example, if a visitor clicks on your Amazon affiliate link for a product worth US$100 and makes a purchase within 24 hours, you’ll receive a commission of US$4.

By itself, that sounds pretty low, doesn’t it? But what if you’re running a website with over 100,000 visitors per month? If you’re able to convert 1% of your visitors to potential purchases, that amounts to 100 people. Say, from the 100 people, only 10% clicks on the Amazon affiliate link of a product. And from that 10% (or 10 people), only 50% purchases that product on Amazon.

Let’s say the product costs US$50. Since 5 people bought that particular product, the total amounts to US$250. If the commission for that product is 4%, you have made a cool US$10 from a single product in a month. But if they add more to their cart and check-out within 24 hours, you stand to make even more commission.

Is 4% commission per product enough?

US$10 per product per month in commission might not sound like much. But remember, that’s a conservative estimate of 1 product bought by 5 people in one day. If that same product gets bought by 5 people for 10 days out of an entire month, that’s US$100 per product per month. If you have at least 10 products and with similar conversion rates, that’s at least US$1,000 in commissions every month.

It may not be life-changing money, but it sure is a great passive income for a side gig. And if you go at it full-time, who knows, you might even manage to pull in US$5,000, US$10,000 month in month out!

Note: This is only a simulated, conservative estimate. Since commissions can reach as high as 10%, the products you choose to promote will ultimately influence your potential commission income.

A better brand value means a higher level of trust among consumers

When comparing Amazon vs. Clickbank, other than the differences in commission rate, another factor jumps out the most. And that is brand recognition. Amazon has cemented itself as one of the modern day’s most successful companies and boasts the largest and most active online marketplace in the world.

Aside from the high level of trust among consumers, Amazon also has great customer service. These are the kind of factors that often determine whether a casual visitor converts to a paying customer. And if you’re doing affiliate marketing, that “last mile” experience can go a long way.

How to do Amazon Affiliate marketing like a seasoned veteran (on a low budget)

Okay, so you’ve built a website, created content, signed up for Amazon Associates, and you’ve gotten your Amazon affiliate links. Now what?

There are two key things you need to do to make sure that you’ll succeed in this for the long-term, and that is:

1. Being able to grow your website organically
2. Understanding consumer behavior on Amazon

1. Grow and optimize your Amazon affiliate website

Most affiliate marketers enter the industry with a shoe-string budget. And it’ll most likely be the same for you. You might hardly have any budget for marketing. That means the only (and often best) way to grow your website is to optimize it for Google search.

SEO is a long game. But once your site has great on-page and off-page SEO, it’ll be able to attract more organic clicks and visitors over time. The more visitors you get, the higher the likelihood of your Amazon affiliate links being clicked.

To optimize your website for Google search, you’ll need to:

1. Do keyword research.
2. Find the search intent of your target audience.
3. Select relevant, high-volume and long tail keywords.
4. Build content based on your targetted keywords.

Note: If you’re unsure about how to do good keyword research (or what it even means), read this detailed article to get you started.

From your keyword research, you should be able to get a good idea of your target audience’s search intent (i.e., how they search for the products that you plan to feature), keyword volumes and trends (how popular are the keywords related to your product), and long tail keywords.

Search intent and long tail keywords are key to converting visitors to purchasers

Since you’re working on what is essentially an affiliate marketing website, conversion is your end goal. Which means to get the right type of targeted visitors to your website (and convert them), you should use as many relevant long tail keywords as possible.

Long tail keywords convert better compared to shorter, focus keywords. They also help to point visitors in the right direction (ideally in the direction of your website). For example, a user that searches for “best Android smartphones in 2018” may have a lower purchase intent compared to one who searches for “Samsung Galaxy A9 price.“

So, as you can see, SEO for affiliate marketing is not just about pulling in a lot of visitors and clicks. It’s about attracting the right type of audience to your website.

Use a good keyword tool to find keywords and content ideas

Doing keyword research for your web content for affiliate marketing involves a lot of work. The best way to make your workflow more efficient and finding relevant, targetted keywords is to use a good keyword tool like KeywordTool.io. With this SEO tool, you’ll be able to:

• Find suitable long tail keywords with higher conversion potential to include in your content.
• Get a long list of content ideas based on high-volume search terms.
• Learn about search trends of various keywords related to your niche.

For example, if you’re running a men’s lifestyle website, it might be a good idea to feature a gadget review and comparison section. It’s an ideal place to insert and promote your Amazon affiliate links. To get started, pick a product type like “wireless headphones,” type into the search bar in KeywordTool.io, and press enter.

You’ll get a long list of search terms that you can use either focus keywords or long tail keywords in your article. Or you can use the generated keywords list as a source of content ideas:

From this list of generated search terms based on “wireless headphones,” there are many ideas that you can pluck out to create content. For instance:

• Best wireless headphones in 2023
• Bose vs Sony: Which has better wireless headphones?
• Sony vs. JBL: One of this wireless headphone is a best-seller

This is just from one keyword search and one results page from KeywordTool.io. Imagine how many more relevant content you can create when you do regular keyword research on your niche of choice.

Creating content ideas out of long-tail keywords

You now have a few potential content ideas. Out of which, you choose to create an article on 5 most affordable brands of wireless headphones for TV. Enter “wireless headphones for TV” in the search bar to find relevant long-tail keywords:

Now, from this list of keywords, you will see some great long tail keywords. We’ve chosen to highlight “wireless headphones for tv for hard of hearing” due to its very specific nature.

Long tail keywords such as those are interesting, especially for affiliate marketers, because people who search for long tail keywords have a specific intent. More often than not, it’s with a potential purchase in mind.

There may not be many websites that rank well for wireless headphones for people with hearing problems. If you’re able to rank your article with Amazon affiliate links for that keyword, you’ll be ahead of the pack. And this is only one example out of many, many more than you can experiment with.

Don’t be alarmed by the relatively low search volume of long tail keywords such as those. There may be fewer people searching for those types of keywords, but they boast a far better conversion rate.

2. Understand consumer behavior on Amazon

The key to increasing your Amazon affiliate earning potential is to promote products that have a lot of demand. That comes from understanding the keyword search and hence the buying habits of consumers on Amazon, including seasonal and shopping trends.

A simple keyword search on Google won’t cut it. Instead, you’ll be better off using KeywordTool for Amazon. The tool pulls autocomplete data from Amazon itself and shows a long list of keywords that are related to the product you’re targeting.

From the results, you can see that there are 359 unique keywords related to “wireless headphones.”

As you can see, there are a lot of exact long tail searches for specific brands, including specific company related like SkullCandy and Apple.

Plug one of those search terms into Amazon.com, and you’ll get:

It’s clearly a very popular product with good reviews, and it has a high search volume (12,200/month) too!

Find a winning Amazon product through a good keyword tool

From this simple research on consumer behavior on Amazon, you can safely say that there is a healthy demand for wireless headphones on both Google and Apple.

Specifially, we saw that branded keywords were generally more popular, which makes it a good place to start Amazon affiliate marketing.

You’ve reached the end of the article and the beginning of your affiliate marketing journey

You can use the methods laid out in this guide and apply it to your affiliate marketing plan. Replicate them for all the products and niches that you’d like to target. Trust that it will make a big difference in your Amazon affiliate work.

Amazon Associate is an amazing program. It has its pros and cons, no doubt, but it’s arguably one of the best affiliate marketing partners for just about anyone. Especially if you’re still new to this industry and entering with a low budget.

Draft out a plan, don’t rush into it (nor should you take too long finding the perfect plan), and put in some elbow grease into research. And get a good keyword tool.

Get prepared for the long haul because there’s no such thing as an affiliate overnight success. If you do it well and persevere, who knows, you might just be the next affiliate marketing success story.

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