Blogger Teams Up with Amazon
One of the advantages of having a blog with Blogger is that the site can be easily monetized. Besides using Google Ads, you can now easily display affiliate items from your Amazon Associates account.
Google purchased Blogger a few years ago and shortly thereafter, Blogger added a Monetize tab to the interface, allowing you to easily include Google Ads. The new Monetize tab looks like the one below.
Notice the new Amazon Associates sub-link. Once you click it, you will be redirected to a page to either set up an Amazon Associates account, or enter your current affiliate ID. Once that’s done, you’ll be able to add a Product Finder to your blog. It allows you to search for products on Amazon and easily create links with images to post on your blog.
You can choose to have the product links appear in your post, your sidebar, or both. Blogger recommends that you choose the option to include the link in both. That way, whenever you write a new post, the product with its affiliate link will display inside the content of the post.
Adding an Amazon sidebar widget to your site has also been integrated, making it easy for you to display a product carousel or other specific categories, such as mp3 clips from music CDs carried on Amazon, an Amazon search box, and even contextual ads from Amazon that work much the same as Google Ads.
The commission rate for purchase made through your Amazon affiliate links is 15%. Depending on what you are advertising, you could make a nice side income from your blog with this new feature.
i have just signed up with the amazon affiliate program and i am still not earning a good deal of cash from them.-’;