What is Amazon Affiliate Site?

An Amazon affiliate site can prove to be a great moneymaking option in which you will display various Amazon products on your webpages in the form of links and banners. When your visitors will click on them from your website and make purchases thereafter, you can receive up to 15 percent commission on all purchases done during their shopping session.

aStore is another Amazon Associates product that offers you the capability to build a full-fledged online store in a matter of few minutes. You do not need any programming skills to build it. aStore can be embedded within your site or linked to from it. An Amazon affiliate site with aStore generally has a dedicated shopping area with various Amazon products, a shopping cart and complete product details along with their reviews.

Amazon provides a wide range of tools to build links to it from your webpages. The product links on your site connect to a particular product on Amazon and display some information on that product. You can make use of the product links tool to create custom-made text only links, text and image links, and image only links to different Amazon items. For elegant graphical banners, you can select from numerous sizes and shapes available.

To become an Amazon Affiliate, you have to visit Amazon.com and click on the ‘Join Associates’ link on the bottom of the home page. Fill in the online application form by furnishing all the necessary personal details and submit it. Wait for the positive or negative response from Amazon.com inside 24 hours.