30 (+1) Tips To Instantly Increase Your Amazon Affiliate Earnings

There’s a ton of information available for you to get started making money from affiliate sites using Amazon’s Associates program.

During our research, though, one aspect that a lot of marketers, teachers, and coaches fail to properly address is what to do once you’re finally making money.

We’re here to address that problem.

Remember, though, that this guide assumes you’ve already got traffic coming into your affiliate site, and are looking to increase the existing earnings.

If you haven’t already tapped into a traffic source and begun making sales, focus on doing what you can to increase the amount of visitors that are seeing your pages every day. Then come back and revisit this guide.

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For those of you with existing earnings and solid traffic levels, though, here are 31 tips that are going to help you instantly increase the amount of money your Associate’s based sites are bringing in each month.

Tip #1 - Split Test Your Page Copy

When we sit down at the keyboard to start writing, we all like to assume that we have an idea of what the reader is going to be looking for -- or, at least, you should have an idea of what the reader is looking for.

However, through split testing, your eyes can be opened, helping you quickly realize that what the reader was looking for was entirely different than what you’ve managed to create for them.

That’s why, once you have a post that’s churning out sales for you, you should consider split testing portions of the page copy.

Often times, coming up with a new angle to take, you can get the visitor thinking about the product in a different way -- one that resonates with them better, and gets them to make the purchase that much easier.

If you have the post ranking highly in the search results, it’s not recommended to change the entire page out, because you risk losing the rankings and traffic.

However, if you’re testing social traffic, or a paid advertising channel, you can get away with adjusting the entire post and split testing it against your original.

Tip #2 - Link Your Images To Amazon

People love to click around once they’re on your website. This is especially true for the images you’ve include inside of the posts you’ve created that link to Amazon’s products.

If you don’t already do it, go back through your posts and make sure that the images included are being hotlinked to the Amazon product page -- using your Associates ID, of course.

To get started, add the tag “target=_blank” to the links on your images, to ensure that a new window is opened up with the product and that the visitor can continue reading through your post.

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Most times, the visitor will get distracted while they’re on Amazon, make their purchase, and then come back to reading your article again -- or finding new ones on your site to browse through.

To link your images to a product on Amazon, grab your affiliate link, then edit the post containing the image. Click on the image itself, and then click on the hyperlink icon in your WordPress editor toolbar. Finally, insert your affiliate link and click save.

Tip #3 - Include A Call To Action At The End Of Articles

There’s no hard-fast rule about when you should include a “Call To Action” inside of your articles, but one generally accepted time to tell your visitors what to do is at the end of your articles.

Unfortunately, a lot of affiliates simply finish their article without really telling the visitor what to do next. Remember, though, that readers like to be told exactly what to do. That’s where your call to action comes in.

At the end of your post, take the time to let the reader know they can get more in-depth customer reviews, find out the pricing, or make their purchase by clicking on the link placed at the end of your content.

Instead of just sprinkling links throughout the article, hoping that the user will click one, tell them specifically at the end to click the link to be taken to Amazon.

Tip #4 - Split Test Your Calls To Action

Now that you’re going to be including calls to action throughout your post (and at the end, especially) you’ll also want to split test what text you’re using to convince the reader to click through to Amazon.

There are a few different strategies you can test, to determine which version works best with the audience that you’re creating content for. Test a few of these examples to see which one gets the highest clickthrough rating:

Tip #5 - Include Comparison Tables

A quick way to add another page to your site, and give your visitors a way to browse through various products that are available in your niche is through the use of comparison tables.

These tables line up anywhere from 5 to 20 different products and include a ton of different metrics t