The Amazon affiliate program is a rarity among today’s retailers and auction sites in that it administers its own affiliate program in-house. When you sign up to become an Amazon affiliate, you sign up with the company directly, thus avoiding the need to create an account with an affiliate clearing house, such as Commission Junction. Furthermore, as an Amazon affiliate who does not need to go through a third party, you are able to get feedback, information and your questions answered a lot quicker than others, thus you are on the cutting edge of marketing.

Acceptance to the Amazon affiliate program is virtually instantaneous, and you will gain conditional access to the site until the company had a chance to verify your sign up. As an Amazon affiliate you are eligible to share in the profits that your visitors make for Amazon. Affiliate webmasters have been known to make 10% of the sale and since many times a customer pays more than one item, this can add up quickly!

There is now the movement underfoot to make money with the creation of an Amazon affiliate RSS feed. The Amazon affiliate RSS feed code is easily created with the help of commercially available transformers, or simply if you are a webmaster who is in the know about programming issues related to the publication of RSS codes.

Of course, the most money any Amazon affiliate can make is with a shop. You will be able to sell off your products and merchandise while at the same time making money for the affiliate network as a whole. As such, you might even be able to ask fellow webmasters to put Amazon affiliate links for your products onto their sites, so that traffic is being directed to your online Amazon store. In turn, you can share your revenues generated by the visitors with your webmaster friends since they are signed up as Amazon affiliates and thus stand to earn a good percentage on the items they are selling.

As you can see, there is a lot in it for you if you sign up to become an affiliate with Amazon. Not only will you be working with a company that offers a lot of interesting products that may make your website’s content more sticky, but as a matter of fact you will be able to make money from the products that people see on your site advertised!