How To Make Money Online With Amazon Using Twitter

As most of you know, I really enjoy the AdSense program. What you might not know is that my second and third favorite program is ClickBank and Amazon. At the moment I like ClickBank slightly better than Amazon, but both programs work well. I’d like to show you a very quick and easy way to increase your earnings with the Amazon affiliate program using Twitter.

Their program is called Amazon Associates, and last year Amazon produced an Amazon Associates Toolbar that appears on the top of every page within Amazon.com. This toolbar allows users, such as yourself, a quick and easy way to create affiliate links with your referral id. These specially created links are the links that give you credit for any sales generated from a click.

Newly added to their toolbar is a “Share on Twitter” button. This button allows you to instantly send a tweet with a bit.ly link pointing directly to the product page your on. The bit.ly link automatically shortens your affiliate link and includes it into the tweet.

Here’s an example of how simple it is for you to make money online with Amazon using Twitter. Last week I researched and purchased a new TV. I choose the Vizio VO32OE. It’s a very affordable and decent quality 32 Inch LCD HDTV for just a little above $400. We have had the TV for almost a week and things couldn’t be any better. We love it.

That said, I went back to the sales page and clicked the “Share On Twitter” button and posted a tweet about it.

Now here’s the thing about Twitter. A tweet on Twitter has about the same shelf life as McDonald’s French Fries. What I mean by that is as soon as you post your tweet, the traffic you get is almost instant and over within about an hour or two max. In other words, when you order McDonalds French Fries, it isn’t long before they start tasting old and nasty. So when you write a tweet, any traffic you’re going to get, you’ll get it within the first hour or two. After that, your tweet will be buried by updates from other people.

What does this have to do with Amazon? Well, one thing that you might not know is that Amazon Associates only have a 24 hour cookie on affiliate links. So quite honestly, when you’re throwing out your affiliate link, ideally you’re looking for the impulsive click and impulsive purchase. In my opinion, when people are trolling around on Twitter, they are bored and don’t have too much to do. If you happen to capture their attention with a product that captures their attention, they will click. And if you get enough people to click, you may find that a few people buy.

If anything it gives you something to tweet about and it’s a great conversation starter:

And here’s the neat thing about Amazon.com. If you refer someone to view the product page of one product but that person decides on purhasing a different product, you still get credit for that sale. Wouldn’t that be neat if ClickBank worked that way? One thing that I think Amazon could have done better was to somehow allow the bit.ly links to be assigned to bit.ly user accounts. In case you don’t know, bit.ly allows you to track the number of clicks on your links. This comes in real handy when you’re trying to track conversion percentages and such.

At any rate, I think it’s great that Amazon added the “Share on Twitter” button to their Amazon Associates Toolbar and even better that your affiliate links are automatically converted into bit.ly links. Give it a try, I think you’ll be pleased with the results.

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