In my earlier post, I talked about Amazon Affiliate program which is a good way to make money by selling the product. The best part is, it works for every niche & if you do it right, the payout will be huge.
Now, in this question, I will deal with the most common question asked by newbie Amazon affiliates: “How to create Amazon affiliate link.”
Extending earlier tutorial here I’m sharing how you can create an affiliate link to an individual product on Amazon. By now, I assume you have signed up as an Amazon Affiliate, in case if you haven’t you can sign up from here.
You will be earning money from Amazon affiliate online when someone follows your Amazon referral link and buys something. That also includes further purchases.
Or simply browse Amazon site while logging into your Amazon affiliate link. On every page at the top, you can find amazon Affiliate link generator which will let you grab Amazon affiliate links instantly.
Step by step guide to creating Amazon affiliate link:
Once your application is approved, login to your Amazon affiliate panel & now head to any product page on Amazon website. At the top, you would see the option call Amazon Associates site stripe.
Here click on Get link > Text
In the above screenshot, you can see how to get your affiliate link. If you are using store ID or tracking ID for tracking, you can change that too. (Don’t worry if you haven’t started using store ID or tracking ID. We will cover this in the upcoming chapter”.
In case you want to make any changes in the site strip option, you can do that from your Amazon associate account. Here is the direct link for making changes in the site strip option.
Another way to create affiliate link for Amazon products:
The first option is the neatest & fastest one. There are other ways to create an affiliate link for Amazon product & let’s have a look at other option too.
Login to your Amazon associate account & click on Product linking > Product links:
On the next page, you have two options. Search for a product or add ASIN/ISBN Code of an individual product. I prefer the second one as it’s fast in those ways. You can find more information about ASIN/ISBN codes here.
How to Get ASIN code of Individual Amazon Product?
Now the first step is to find the product which is relevant to your website/blog. You can search for any product by going directly to Amazon.com homepage. Once you have found the product, go to product detail part. In this case, I’m getting ASIN code of this product.
Grab the Amazon Affiliate link for the product:
So now we have ASIN code of the product. Go to add a product link page. (Refer Image 1). Add ASIN code of the product and click on the go. Refer to the following image:
Click on get links & you will be able to get text links or image links that you can paste on your Website.
Do let me know if you have any questions or faced any problem while creating the Amazon affiliate link? Also if you find this tutorial useful, don’t forget to tweet and share it on Facebook.
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Thank you very much Harsh, I have just sign on. I didn’t know that I could earn money only through amazon. Keep helping people. Keep doing this job
@Marisha
Glad that you find it useful. Best of luck 🙂
Amazon.com is very good site for Affiliate marketing .I was read this post and watch video .Really video is very interested .Thank for sharing How to Create Amazon affiliate link tutorial post and video.
Hi Harsh,
I am also going for Amazon affiliates but i have a thought that since my website is new and till now i haven’t applied for Adsense so i want to ask if i first go with amazon affiliates and then with adsense then it won’t pose any problem ?Is Amazon affiliates compatible with Adsense.
@Rohan
Yes you can use Amazon affiliate program along with AdSense. It’s compatible!
Thanks for sharing a good article Harsh..I have a small question..do we get paid if the visitors click on our affiliate link(be it for individual product or other) and purchase other goods from Amazon??
@Surya
That’s a very smart question, and yes you will get paid for all the products that referred users will buy, as long as your affiliate link cookie is there on his browser.
http://www.amazon.in/gp/product/ASIN/?tag=mytrackingid
will this link work if i enter the ASIN number of product and my Tracking Id? In the link checker on the amazon affiliate webpage, it says that link is OK.
If i share this link on my blog, will i get the benefits from amazon if a person buys using my link?
thnx
abhinav
Harsh this is very long process of adding amazon affiliate link. If you are making amazon affiliate based niche website then it will take lot of time. It has some faults also like it generates iframe code, very lengthy code, image size also not good etc.
There are some other solutions also. for example we can do it with easyazon plugin with the help of it we can generate very short text links, image links, call to action buttons, info blocks etc within few clicks and even without leaving wordpress blog. This is one of the amazing feature of this plugin.
Some other cool features are :
product pop up , link localization, add to shopping cart etc.
In my point of view if you are serious in making money from amazon affiliate link then you should try this plugin. It is the combination of many plugins.
@Rohit
Thanks for letting me know about this plugin and I will definitely have a look. I heard a lot about the same on Warriorforum but never got a chance to try it. Since the recommendation is coming from you, I will give it a shot. Thanks for adding value with your comment.
Hi,
I tried EasyAzon but is not not able to search the product based on keyword that I gave.
May be I am missing something, if you can elaborate please …
This is link aff to product.And i want to create link aff to amazon search product?How?
Amazon is a great source of earning affiliate commission. Really helpful and easy to follow steps, video tutorial is more handy. Thanks Harsh 🙂
I’m wondering why you went through all of those steps when you have the Amazon Associates toolbar installed (saw it when I watched the YouTube video)? With the toolbar present when visiting Amazon.com (or the local variety, ie Amazon.ca for Canada), these are the steps to use:
1. Search for the product on Amazon
2. Click the product you want to sell.
3. Click “Link to this page” (Top left on the toolbar)
4. A Pop-Up will appear with the customization options for the ad
5. Copy the URL in the text field at the bottom of the pop-up as in your video.
Done!
Thanks James..As I mentioned I started using Amazon Affiliate program recently. This is going to be really helpful 🙂
No problem, Harsh. Once you’ve mastered Amazon Affiliate program, you can move onto Walmart’s 😉 (through LinkShare: http://bit.ly/eURcUk )
@ JAMES M , @HARSH AGRAWAL . Can you help me with one question ? Can I take images of products from amazon, get affiliate links of those products, design my own ad with custom CSS and HTML and place it in my blog post linking to specific products ? Given the fact that my ads clearly states that clicking on them would take the user to amazon.
@Ayush
Yes, you can do that! 🙂
i never used amazon , so im not included , but i’m thinking about trying to get somethings may be i will need from there since it is one of the most known providers :))) , thank you for sharing it
Rahul like you I never tried Amazon but after hearing about Amazon from my aff. friends..It seems like a good place to start…
Good info 🙂
i think Amazon is the best affiliate marketing program 🙂
Applied, Waiting for approval (via blogspot)
Do let us know if they approve BlogSpot blog easily..I believe they should as BlogSpot integrated Amazon some time back…!!
Great nice one…
Great article…i have joined Amazon now..and will look forward to some enlightening posts from you n this… :0
Thank you very much for sharing this tutorial.
Will first try to enroll in amazon affiliate program.
Video is good, but if you could have zoomed it a bit on clicks it would have been nice. Any-ways it’s a good article for newbie’s.
Really Helpful Tutorial and Thanks for adding Video in this Tutorial. 🙂
Hey thanks for the procedure we are thinking to integrate Amazon on our new blog!
Best of luck with Amazon integration 🙂
Ya the Amazon is a better way of getting affiliate commission but i have never sold any product yet..But will be working on it..Thank U harsh 🙂
Thanks Robin for your comment and best of luck 🙂
I like using the affiliate link that has words only instead of the the one that has picture. I found out that it converts well.
Paul I believe you must be using it on your blog post..I believe for sidebar one with picture would be more effective..What’s your thought?
I saw your youtube video first that this post and that video was really great. Excellent. But I have a doubt. How Amazon pays?
They send payments via Check, Direct Deposit and through Amazon certificate/gift card.
Superb tutorial.. Well explained about Creating Affiliate link for Amazon Product..
This will help me in future.
Thanks 🙂
Thanks Sharat for dropping by and I hope you going to make most out of it 🙂