How to Start Amazon Associates From Zero: Niche and Traffic

Starting Amazon Associates from zero sounds like it takes a blog, an audience, and a year of patience. It doesn't. The first two moves are deciding where your traffic comes from and picking one niche, and this post walks through both.

A second Amazon Associates account started in September has already earned $11.38 from 21 shipped orders, and it got there with one specific niche: daily smartphone content. That is the point. Posting every product in sight is not.

What You Need

• A website or social media account you actually use as your traffic source.
• Your tax information.
• A payment method you can use for the account.

Tutorial

1. Sign up for Amazon Associates. The form asks for four things: account information, website or social media source, tax information, and a payment method.
2. Fill in the website or social media field with the source you really use. Amazon expects the traffic source to follow its rules, so do not list a page you never post on, and finish the tax and payment details the way your account needs.
3. Pick your niche. Tech, home, kitchen, and lifestyle all work, and mixing them is fine while you are still exploring. What matters is that your content has a clear direction.

Wrapping Up

You now have the two starting pieces: a fresh Amazon Associates account and one clear niche to post about. The warning worth keeping is the one about traffic, because signing up with no idea where visitors will come from leaves you with nothing to show for it, so sort out the source first. The next part of the series covers using Threads to bring traffic in, plus the account settings that go with it.