There are so many ways to make money money online and I have my finger in many of those pies. Well not all but a huge amount. I have exposed how I make money online previously and selling Amazon products is a very small part of this.

Add Amazon links to a WordPress Post

This video below shows how to add Amazon affiliate links to a WordPress post manually without any plugins. It can take some time to do this and I now use the EazyAzon Plugin for this, which has saved me from even going to the Amazon website. All links can be created within your WordPress post.

Azon Deal Snatcher – Add Amazon Affiliate Links

Azon snatcher is one of those plugins that I installed and instantly made money with. It shocked me. I created a few posts using this WordPress plugin and 3 or 4 sales came in the next day. I have many websites but I had never written an article about the Kindle Fire before now. I ended up selling two Kindle fires and some weird accessories. I also sold some Xbox items, also which had never happened for me before. It was a dead giveaway.

Here is a link to the articles that made me sales:

http://smallusbflashdrive.com/xbox-360-games-an-overview/

http://smallusbflashdrive.com/the-new-kindle-fire-is-cool-for-kids/

The screenshot below shows the items I sold from this experiment. See the arrows pointing to the sales. Now I am ready to implement this on a bigger website as I always like to test things out first.

View Full picture here.

I just wanted to show you that these are totally normal WordPress posts on a website that has never really made made money before.

This was also on a dead blog, well not popular anyway! It was a website about small usb drives but I decided to make it into a tech site.

As long as we are on a selling spree, please check out this article about earning extra affiliate sales by tweaking your proven sales pages. Now that I know these two pages can make sales, I will link to them and promote them further.

Learning how to grab those extra affiliate sales and earn extra money is very important for bloggers to master. You cannot simply sit calmly, watching a sales page lose sales gradually with age, without jumping up and taking action!  I simply ignore how old and actual article is and if I see potential, I go for it!

Often webmasters are too caught up in creating new content and promoting that, neglecting the true money spinners, the old established posts. I am not saying you should not create fresh content, I am just letting you know that you can earn extra money from the pages that are showing you they have potential.

Please note that this is a private post sent to my subscribers only. If you found this in Google search, please let me know what search string you used so I can optimize for that!

First Tips to Note

1. Always check the landing page for your affiliate link code. Is it landing on a page with more information or a direct shopping cart?
2. Make a custom affiliate link if possible. Clickbank allows this and many other affiliate sites do too. This is how I know I made 6 sales from this one link.
3. Don’t be an obvious seller like a used car salesman. I hate cheesy sales people and so does most of your website visitors.
4. Don’t spam your WordPress sidebar with affiliate links as there is such thing as WordPress sidebar etiquette you know!

Example of How to Earn Extra Money

It is far easy to optimize an established post that has statistics to show than it is to do this with each new fresh post. Knowing the stats give you an insiders view which will actually tell you how to optimize your post for even more traffic and sales.

OK so lets work on this theory. People visiting this page accidentally are not generally the buyers. Therefore I am looking for targeted keywords to focus on.

In the video below you will see the actual post I have researched here.

Earn Extra Money with Extra Affiliate Sales – Video Tutorial

In this video I am using a real article I wrote about an eCommerce WordPress theme.

How to Find the Keywords That ARE Bringing the Visitors

1. Go to Google Analytics for your website.

2. Click on the CONTENT menu in the left sidebar. Then click on pages. See the screenshot below.

3. Find the page you want to investigate. I usually press CTRL and F on the keyboard so I can type in what I want to search for on the page. Just remember it might be on the next page.

4. When you find the page or post click on it. You will be taken to its details page.

5. Next to the “Secondary dimension:” click on the drop down arrow. As shown in screenshot below.

6. Now choose Traffic Sources from the drop down list.

7. Then choose keywords from that list.

8. Now you can see the keywords that brought people to this exact page.

I found that this page had very high competition but I was ranking for some longtail keywords that is the gold I was looking for. There are four keywords there so now I will use this to my advantage.

Now I will use Scribe to optimize for those keywords I have discovered. The keywords that do not relate directly to my article are not included in this optimization.

Here is a video showing how I use Scribe. You can get all this information yourself if you like. You can also find more info on another article I wrote about how to dominate Google search results.

Earn Extra Money - Tips Shown in The Video

1. Research your keywords. Minimum of 200 [exact matches] in Google keyword tool.
2. Write an original and interesting review adding your point of view.
3. Have an affiliate link in the first or second line of your article.
4. Make all pictures link to the affiliate site.
5. Make tracking unique links so you can tell where the sales are coming from.
6. Promote each post when you publish it. Give the new post a fighting chance.
7. When you discover a page is making sales, optimize it to its full potential.
8. Use my top SEO tools to get the most traffic for your target keywords.
9. Study any affiliate marketing tips you can!

Lets Go Deeper to Earn Extra Money

• Lets promote this article once or twice a month with article marketing.
• Lets update the article to keep it current.
• Lets continue to backlink to it once a month. (Internal links on new posts)
• Continually check out the competition to see if your article is still got the best info.
• When the post gets old create another that will do a similar job and link to it in the first few sentences of the old post.

Provide the best information you can, be honest and helpful, include relevant text links to your affiliate program within your great content and you’ll make a lot more sales. Then when you know a page or post is working…OPTIMIZE IT!

How do you grab those extra affiliate sales?

When you become an Ebay affiliate in the Ebay Partner Network, actually getting HTML affiliate code to paste into your website is not always an easy task. I know it took me a few weeks to work out what links I wanted and how to use them.

How to create a link with the Ebay Partner Network link generator?

1.  Sign into your Ebay Partner Network account.

2.  Click on the Tools tab. See the screen shot below.

Ebay link generator

3. Click on the Link Generator link as show above.

4. The Link Generator will appear with options for you to choose.

To see what options to use you can watch the video tutorial.

In this video tutorial I will show you how to use link generator to create an affiliate link pointing to Ebay.

The link generator can be used to create customized links, links to Ebay shops, links to particular sellers, or even just links straight to the home page.