Amazon Associate Program is perhaps one of the most popular ones for bloggers because it is simple to use and has such a wide range of products in their system ranging from books, to electronics, to jewelry, to CDs and DVDs etc. It’s also great because there are many tools that can be used to integrate it into your blog including WordPress Plug-ins. Some bloggers even integrate Amazon stores into their blogs. Another beauty of the Amazon program is the variety of ways that they give you to link to their products. Even using just their basic tools on the Associates page you have the choice to link to products using text links, pictures, buttons and various keyword triggered techniques.
Recently Amazon introduced Amazon Widgets These new widgets are small, visually dynamic, easily configurable widgets and allow you to feature products from Amazon on blogs, websites and social networking pages. In as little as one minute, you can populate a widget with your favorite Amazon products, your comments about those products, and select from a set of color and layout themes to match both your mood and website.
Amazon Associates Program Cons: • commissions can be lower than some other programs (although they have an incentive/bonus program that increases the % when you sell certain targets) • incentive program can be a little complicated to understand • some of their buttons and link methods are a little dated not great on some products internationally (that is while Amazon will send books and some products internationally some of the bigger ticket items will not be sent overseas. So if you have a non US readership you might have to also sign up for other Amazon affiliate programs (that is they also have a UK, Canadian, Japanese one etc this can get a little messy)).
