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How to Sign Up for the Amazon AFFILIATE Program-Step by step guide for beginners
Hey everyone in this video, I wanted to show you how you could set up the Amazon affiliate program. So you've got to go on Amazon and you've got to set up for their affiliate program, and then you will get a special link that you could use for all their products to put it on your YouTube videos on your website and every time someone clicks on that link, it will take you to Amazon, but it will take it to that special link that you set up through your affiliate, and you could get paid a percentage of that sale from Amazon and the duration of the time that person spends on Amazon, you will get paid that affiliate from all the sales, not just a product that led them to Amazon.
So for example, if you're talking about a lens or a camera and he leads someone to amazon.com, let's say don't buy that camera, but they browse around and buy something else. You get an affiliate commission from debt sales. Now, if it's your first time on this channel, I make tech tutorials just like this one, five times a week.
So please consider subscribing. Before I jump on the computer and show you the process of signing up for an affiliate. I want to make one more comment about it. If you don't make any sales within six months of signing up. So if you sign up today and you don't make any Salesforce six months at the time of this recording, Amazon actually doesn't approve of you being part of the program.
So make sure you have something set up, make sure you have a little bit of following on a YouTube channel or a website before you sign up, so you didn't get kicked off from Amazon's program. I'm talking about my experience because when I first launched my YouTube channel on the very first day, I sign up for the Amazon affiliate program, and six months later, even though I had made close to a hundred videos, I still didn't have any cells or maybe I had one. I think you need a minimum of three when I was doing it and they kicked me out of the program. So this process, I'm going to show you how to do it again from scratch. I sign up for the program and hopefully, you could get at least a handful of sales in the first six months.
So you could stay with the program and not get rejected by Amazon. All right, let's jump on the computer. I want to show you where you find out the Philly program and the steps that are required to sign up for the Amazon affiliate program so let's go through the signup process. The first thing you want to do is you want to go to amazon.com and you want to make sure you sign in, to your account.
If you don't do this, now, it's going to ask you to do a later, when you sign up for that affiliate program. So make sure you either have an account or you signed in to your account. So I'm going to go ahead and sign in to my account here and once you're signed into your account, let's scroll all the way to the bottom of the page, where you see the footer of amazon.com and you should see.
Become an affiliate. If you don't see that, just Google, Amazon affiliate, and we'll probably link you to this page. But once I click here, it takes me to affiliate-program.amazon.com. So that's the URL where you could join that affiliate program. Once you're here, you either could click on this banner, enter or join now.
So I'm just going to say, join now for free and I'll follow this along asked me to sign him one more time and it's going to ask me to confirm my address. Now again, I have my information because I signed into my account. So you already knew my shipping address, so I'm going to press next. And now it's going to ask me to type in my address.
Again, you can use a YouTube page here, or you could put in your website URL. You could read these instructions here. So the one I'm signing up for I'm based in the US so this is for our Amazon affiliate program and says, you will need to apply separately for each international Amazon associate program.
So make sure you're in the right region and you're signing up for the right program because they are different. I'm showing you how to do this with our program. If you look in the middle of the page, it says your account will be closed. If you do not make qualified referrals within the first hundred 80 days, as I said before, I wasn't able to do that the very first time I signed up for this.
So they actually closed my account and he says, you could have re reapply for the program. Once you've made the changes to the website, I've made that adjustment to the website, to the URL. So now I'm going to go ahead and we applied for the program. So go ahead and read this. If you need more instructions, I'm going to type in my website here, howfinity.com and I'm going to go ahead and add it and you could add multiple websites here. So I got one more website. I'm going to add it here and I have my YouTube channel. I'm going to add also again, you just need one to add here, or it could be a YouTube channel. You could also create one, but as I said, make sure you're going to get one cell or multiple cells in that first hundred 80 days to qualify.
So let me go ahead and press next year. It says, are any of the websites, our mobile apps listed here, director for children under 13. That's a no, for me in this case, I'm going to press confirm. So now it says to create an associate store ID. So if you go over the instructions here, it says it could be your website dash 20, for example, that could be a store ID.
So let me go ahead and type in a store ID. So I'm just typing the name of my store and it'll add the numbers for me by itself. I have the websites. If you have mobile apps list, I'm here. What is your website about how-to video platform and, what are the best topics that describe your website? So go ahead and choose from this list and then it asks you, what are the things you want to sell on Amazon? This is not that important. You could sell many things, but go ahead and choose appropriately here. I'm going to choose a computer and office and electronics in this case. What type is your website or mobile app? I'm going to put the content website and my secondary is a shopping engine and how do you drive traffic to the website? So the ways I do it is through social networks and through blogs and SEO, I'm going to go down. How do you utilize your website and after generate income? So in this case, if you have any others, I'm going to do Amazon associates. This is what I'm actually signing up for here.
How do you usually build links? I use WordPress. So that's a content management system. How many unique visitors do you get per month? I'm just going to put the minimum here. I actually, under 500 is the minimum, but I'm already close to 5,000. I'm going to click that and what's the primary reason for joining Amazon to monetize my site.
How'd you hear about us? I'm going to choose word of mouth and go ahead and go through the security here. I'm going to type this in and press next. It's going to verify your identity. So it's going to give you a phone call. So let me type in my number and get that call successfully verified your pin.
Please return to amazon.com to complete your registration. That completed my registration. I'll just do this checkmark here and I'm going to press finish. Now it says, thank you for applying for the amazon.com associate program. Here's my unique ID. So this is the ID. That's going to identify me on Amazon and it says, enter payment of tax information. You could do that now or later. This is straightforward. If you're a US citizen, you need your social security. Or if you're a business, you need your tax EIN number. I'm going to set that up later, but that's how you get paid. You could get paid through a gift card or your bank account.
You could get paid via check and now you're set up with your Amazon program is going to send you a reminder to set up your tax information. But right now, I'm going to focus on making the cells because, in the next 180 days, I want to definitely make multiple cells. So then I don't get rejected by the program and the way you do this now, once you're at this point is if you look up a keyboard or what you're looking to sell, so let's do iPhone X charger.
For example, if that's what I wanted to have an affiliate link for, I could go ahead and search for that and I could see the results that it gives me. So let's say this is the one I want it to sell. I could press get the link here, or I could do this dropdown and it'll give me the link and this is the link I could go ahead and put on my website or on my YouTube channel or wherever I want to do that affiliate or you could shorten it and this is the link, which is much nicer to create so and then you could, go ahead and copy and paste that or you could build the link, which allows you to use images and things like that. So if I wanted to present it this way on my website, I can with the text and image option or with the image only option or with the text-only option and this is the URL. I basically have to take the snippet and put it on where I want to put it. So this is great for websites, that URL link, the shortened URL link was great for Instagram and social media. Anyway, I hope this gets you started with the Amazon affiliate program. Like I said before, I make tech tutorials just like this one that is easy to follow five times a week, and I really hope you subscribe to it, the channel, and I see you on the next video. Thank you so much for watching.