How to Do Amazon Affiliate Marketing Successfully

In a discussion on social software and online selling, Amazon is one of the most often used examples.
However, in the examples used in these discussions Amazon’s perceived image is different to each person. So as beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Amazon’s business model is in the eyes of the user.

1) Select the Product you intend to market: The best way to select a product is by logging into your Amazon affiliate account, as you will always find Amazon suggestions and recommendations for most new products & offers and best selling ones, if those products suggested by Amazon isn't good for you, you can search for products that are related to your niche which you most know about.

2) Write an interesting though honest review: You need to write an article that highlights the product benefits and how it could help your readers to solve their problem, if you don't have enough information about the product; you can search for the product customer reviews for information about the products, your reviews should be honest which increases your readers trust to buy the products that you recommend for them.

3) Search you article keywords carefully: look for profitable keywords that increase your traffic and have a high conversion rates, avoid keywords that have high competition as those are very hard to rank for.

4) Post your article on your own website or blog: if you don't have a website or blog that is related to the product you intend to market; you could use content publishing website which you can join for free like Expertscolumn, Squidoo and other similar sites.

5) Use all possible ways to increase your articles traffic: as the more traffic you have the more sales volume you will have, use Social Networking websites like Facebook, Twitter, StumbleUpon and similar sites to drive the traffic that you are looking for.