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What In The World Is A Bounty?
Whether it’s to cover the monthly fees of your hosting provider, boost your holiday savings, or earn a regular income, there are many reasons to make money with your own website. The Amazon Associate Program and bounties are an integral part of the advertising fees you can earn.
YOU'LL LEARN:
A quick recap: the Amazon Associates Program works like this. You include Amazon products on your website or blog by including affiliate links in your posts or pages. When visitors to your pages click on these links, you can earn up to 12% of all the purchases made during the user’s shopping session. Commission income depends on the product categories purchased.
In addition to earning commission income by product category, you can also earn fixed commissions from your advertising. These extra premiums are not geared toward products, but are paid for the promotion of Amazon.sg services, such as Prime subscription. You receive a fixed commissions once a visitor to your website signs up for a trial subscription of an Amazon service – the commission you earn is called a bounty.
Promoting Amazon services is just as easy as promoting products – you just integrate an Associate link or banner into your website. You can use our SiteStripe Tool for this, or use an already existing banner from Associates Central.
If a visitor signs up for trial membership or a fixed membership for an Amazon service via your Associate link, you can receive the following bounties.
• Amazon Prime: SGD $2 per new Prime signup
This is obviously great news for you, but the visitors of your website also benefit
In addition to earning commission income by product category, you can also earn fixed commissions from your advertising. These extra premiums are not geared toward products, but are paid for the promotion of Amazon.sg services, such as Prime subscription. You receive a fixed commissions once a visitor to your website signs up for a trial subscription of an Amazon service – the commission you earn is called a bounty.
Promoting Amazon services is just as easy as promoting products – you just integrate an Associate link or banner into your website. You can use our SiteStripe Tool for this, or use an already existing banner from Associates Central.
If a visitor signs up for trial membership or a fixed membership for an Amazon service via your Associate link, you can receive the following bounties.
• Amazon Prime: SGD $2 per new Prime signup
This is obviously great news for you, but the visitors of your website also benefit
Tips For Success
The services offered by Amazon can be promoted on your website in many ways without having to make any changes to your site content or design. You can place a banner for the promotion of Amazon Prime on almost any page, because this service does not need a special product category or thematic orientation. Prime’s focus is on providing free delivery, as well as free video and music streaming content, so it appeals to an extremely broad group of people.
However, ensure that you don’t integrate the advertising media for an Amazon service in such a way that it’s in the main conversion path for any specific product. We recommend placing it in a sidebar of the page; this will reassure visitors that your site is still focusing on your niche, and that the Amazon service is provided as a supplement.
Look for opportunities to add the Bounty services where your website’s content matches one of the Amazon services offered, even in a less direct way. For example, on a blog post reviewing a movie, add not only the Blu-ray disc for the title and a suitable player, but also an Amazon.sg Prime banner. If you’re providing Affiliate Links to products we recommend a Prime banner with reference to free delivery for all Prime products on Amazon.sg.
However, ensure that you don’t integrate the advertising media for an Amazon service in such a way that it’s in the main conversion path for any specific product. We recommend placing it in a sidebar of the page; this will reassure visitors that your site is still focusing on your niche, and that the Amazon service is provided as a supplement.
Look for opportunities to add the Bounty services where your website’s content matches one of the Amazon services offered, even in a less direct way. For example, on a blog post reviewing a movie, add not only the Blu-ray disc for the title and a suitable player, but also an Amazon.sg Prime banner. If you’re providing Affiliate Links to products we recommend a Prime banner with reference to free delivery for all Prime products on Amazon.sg.
Practical Examples For Applying Bounty Services
You can integrate bounty paying Amazon services on all kinds of websites. Here are some examples to consider:
1. Do you run a blog in which you present various sewing techniques and outfits to your readers?
Just mention in one of your articles the advantages of Amazon Prime in terms of a free and fast delivery for inexpensive Prime items such as sewing accessories, buttons, fabrics, etc. With a well-placed Amazon Prime banner, you could potentially earn bounties for Prime trials or subscriptions.
2. Do you provide tips and tutorials on photography, or do you have a travel blog?
Write an article in which you explain the problems of data backup of your pictures during your travels or after your trip. As a Prime member, one would get free delivery on sd cards and place the appropriate banner or text link in your article using the SiteStripe tool to promote Prime.
3. Are you running a travel blog and do you use offline-available Audible audiobooks or Prime videos?
Write an article with tips to battle boredom – including your ‘must have’ film recommendations for long flights. You could do the same for audiobooks for your readers: just implement the appropriate banner or text link.
You can also use practical examples from everyday life that demonstrate the value of Amazon services. An example scenario might be that, a few days before departure, you notice your charger for the battery of your camera no longer works. As an Amazon Prime member, you order a replacement device, and receive it within a short time before you travel, thanks to free premium shipping for Prime members. You can share this with your readers in an article and include a link to the Prime trial subscription.
4. Are you writing about Bluetooth speakers or hi-fi accessories?
You could also compare music-streaming providers here, in an article which explores which provider has the best music-streaming quality for hi-fi lovers, or which wireless speaker is the best value for money.
Use the principles behind the examples above, and you’ll soon begin to appreciate that there are a lot of practical ways that you can integrate Amazon services into your site’s content meaningfully for your visitors – which means extra services for them, and bounty payments for you.
1. Do you run a blog in which you present various sewing techniques and outfits to your readers?
Just mention in one of your articles the advantages of Amazon Prime in terms of a free and fast delivery for inexpensive Prime items such as sewing accessories, buttons, fabrics, etc. With a well-placed Amazon Prime banner, you could potentially earn bounties for Prime trials or subscriptions.
2. Do you provide tips and tutorials on photography, or do you have a travel blog?
Write an article in which you explain the problems of data backup of your pictures during your travels or after your trip. As a Prime member, one would get free delivery on sd cards and place the appropriate banner or text link in your article using the SiteStripe tool to promote Prime.
3. Are you running a travel blog and do you use offline-available Audible audiobooks or Prime videos?
Write an article with tips to battle boredom – including your ‘must have’ film recommendations for long flights. You could do the same for audiobooks for your readers: just implement the appropriate banner or text link.
You can also use practical examples from everyday life that demonstrate the value of Amazon services. An example scenario might be that, a few days before departure, you notice your charger for the battery of your camera no longer works. As an Amazon Prime member, you order a replacement device, and receive it within a short time before you travel, thanks to free premium shipping for Prime members. You can share this with your readers in an article and include a link to the Prime trial subscription.
4. Are you writing about Bluetooth speakers or hi-fi accessories?
You could also compare music-streaming providers here, in an article which explores which provider has the best music-streaming quality for hi-fi lovers, or which wireless speaker is the best value for money.
Use the principles behind the examples above, and you’ll soon begin to appreciate that there are a lot of practical ways that you can integrate Amazon services into your site’s content meaningfully for your visitors – which means extra services for them, and bounty payments for you.