Becoming an Affiliate for amazon discussion

[Rawr]

Hey guys, last time I checked into becoming in affiliate, I was living in one of the states where you couldn't become one. I've since moved and would like to look into it again. I am guessing i'll have to established residency before I can do it.

Found this how to guide for ebooks - http://bookmarketingmaven.typepad.com/ezine/book-marketing-newsletter-november-2009.html



My question is how do you set up the affiliate links in your books, and on your website what worked for you to convert.

Thank you.

 

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[COSenior]

Wish I could help, but I still live in one of those states. I did set up an affiliate account for my daughter, who lives in another state, and what I did for links was set up an A-store for not only my (our) book, but I picked some other categories of products that readers of that book might be interested in. I can't say there was a lot of conversion, because there weren't many sales of that book, but there was a little. I didn't bother with a website, that might have done some good, but by the time I finished that book, I'd found HfR's thread and was busily writing fiction.

 

[joanna]

Can't help on the law/residency issues. But in terms of how you can use it:

You are not meant to put them directly in the book (due to affiliate terms not kdp terms). It's actually goo practice to link to say your own site and just redirect to the affiliate link from there. You can either link to a book landing page, or just redirect straight away (technical term).

Also if you do have a website, making sure all the amazon links are affiliate links can give you that little bit of extra income. That's as far as books are concerned I guess.

Something to note, is that if you already have a link to Amazon, you don't have to mess around with their link generator, just add "?tag=XXX" at the end if there is no question mark in the url or "&tag=XXX" if there is one. Change XXX to your affiliate ID.