How to Start Amazon Affiliate Marketing in Nigeria

How to Start Amazon Affiliate Marketing in Nigeria

Amazon Affiliate marketing is one of the best ways to make money online in 2022. In this guide I will be giving you first hand information if you’re interested in starting your own affiliate marketing with Amazon.

An Amazon affiliate partners with Amazon, the online marketplace which is arguably the biggest and most patronised on the internet.

The idea behind Amazon affiliate is pretty simple, basically as a partner to the network, you devised means to bring people to buy producsts and ehen they order any of Amazon products you earn some percentage (a commission).

As long as they use your affiliate link to visit amazon and buy products, you get paid commission in the next 24 hours and that reflects in your dashboard, the customers or your link users doesn’t incur any extra cost to them and to you.

If you have heard about making money online through blogging, the most brilliant way to go about that is through affiliate marketing, while there are different affiliate networks and platforms, Amazon affiliate has proven over the years to be one of the best, a very reliable and transparent model. Imagine how fun it is partnering with the biggest brand in the world.

It is a very known and popular brand known by everyone worldwide, what is just left of you is to start building your platform, work on gaining users trust with quality reviews, leverage SEO to grow your website, it may not come so fast, but it can grow to be a massive means of income for you if done properly.

Once your threshold reaches $100. You can then have your first earnings from the platform, however, you can increase your Amazon minimum threshold to any figure you want.

Isn’t that cool?

Basically, you first need to explore all of the categories that are available on the marketplace, then ideate on the best for you to promote. Once you have an account as a partner you can now start coping links from your affiliate dashboard to earn money when people buy with your Amazon affiliate link.

But to get good results, you need to follow the working methods, it’s only this way you can be able to achieve the expected results and make passive income online.

When starting out as an Amazon affiliate, you need very little investment, you do not need huge capital to stock up , get a warehouse, and run several overhead costs to implement your business, interestingly, you do not even need to have a huge budget for advetisement campaigns.

In 2021, Amazon, partnering with Amazon is one of the most viable online businesses anyone can start, all it takes is just to follow the right guide lines, and that’s the essence of creating this guide to put you throught things.

How to set up your Amazon Affiliate Website

Before you start promoting products on Amazon, you need to have a website or blog of your own, where you put with contents and add in the links. We recommend building your website with WordPress; it’s the same software powering some of the best money blogs on the internet.

You will need to use WordPress alongside other plugins that make adding your Affiliate links in WordPress simple and smooth. But before we go further on this, there are two approaches you can take to promote Amazon products via your website.

You can make blogs and add affiliate links in the product reviews, and secondly you can create a shop section on your website where you add products with woocommerce and use the external link feature to redirect potential buyers to amazon when they click on the buy now button.

So to get things started, you need to install WordPress software, to do this, you’d be required to have a domain and hosting account to power your website.

Domain names start at around $14.99 per year and for an entry level hosting that can do the job, you can get for $7.99 per month, your blog will also require to have a SSL certificate, this will make sure that your site is secured for users, no one wants to have anything to do with a blog that’s not secure and that usually costs around $80 / year.

I know what is going in your mind right now…how do you raise such moeny to put up your blog site, thats around $122 or NGN45,000 plus, which is a lot.

But there’s an easy way to go about things without expending this much. Yes! You can use Bluehost to power your website a much lower rate and still get all you you require to run a full fledge website for your new Amazon affiliate business.

Bluehost is a web hosting company that has been officially recommended by WordPress, meaning that you can trust them to host your website for you, the hosting service will only cost $3.75 per month and you’d have a free domain name, SSL certificate to secure your web, and a efficient web hosting to power your blog.

Congrats!

You are now ready to setup your website. If you have used our link to make the purchase of your web hosting, we can offer you a free setup of your website.

Better still, you can follow our guide on how to start a blog to have your wordpress setup easily.

Next is to create your Amazon Affiliate account, you need to pay attention, here as thingd has really changed about signing up for Amazon affiliate in Nigeria. In 2021, you do not need to make use of a VPN and USA number, you can easily have your account verified with your Nigeria number, you’d be sent an OTP to complete the process.

How to Create Your Amazon Affiliate Account

If you have an account you used to make purchases on Amazon you can make use of that to just login to your Amazon account instead of aving to create a new. In case you totally new to Amazon. Here is the step to signup.

Hop on to Amazon affiliate

Click on Sign Up Menu, on the next screen click on the button ‘Create your Amazon account’

Next, Input your email, Name and password, and click on the ‘Create your Amazon account’ button.

be sure to have your password saved up in a save place or memorised

One the next page you’d ne required to give more details such as country, phone, name, website, etc. Patiently supply all the details required. In the course of the registration you will need to make phone verification.

Before now, you need a USA number to verify Amazon affiliate account in Nigeria, now things have changed and you can now verify on Amazon with your local phone number, be it Glo, MTN, 9mobile or what have you.

Just make sure that you don’t have DND activated on your line so you can receive the OTP code that’s be sent to your mobile for the final verification.

How to Start Earning

Do keyword research within the niche you’re passionate about, you can use tools such as Ahref, Ubersuggest, Semrush and Long tail Pro to start finding keyword opportunities.

Make very informative contents around these keywords, be very explanative and give as much as possible information about the product you’re reviewing.

Add your Amazon affiliate links in post under each items and inside your contents.

Make sure your posts are optimsed for proper search positioning.

How to Withdraw Amazon Earnings

You can withdraw your earnings through direct deposit or cheque, you need to open a Payoneer account and submit that as your Withdrawal account, select USA for the acount. With payoneer you can cash out your earnings with your local banker.