How to Pick Your First Amazon Affiliate Product

You are scrolling a page of popular Amazon products, and every one of them looks like easy money. That is exactly how most people end up promoting something they have nothing to say about. This share is the short set of filters to run a product through before you copy its affiliate link, plus the one question to ask before you commit.

The goal is not to find a bestseller. It is to find a product you can turn into content, because the product is only the start and the content is the job.

Tutorial

1. Start with a product people are already searching for. Looking interesting is not the test, so do not grab whatever catches your eye.

1. Pick something that is easy to make content about.

1. Choose a product that solves a problem.

1. Ask what angle you can cover the product from before you take the link. If there is no angle, that product is not the one, so move on to the next.

Wrapping Up

You now have a short checklist instead of a guess: high demand, easy content, a real problem solved. Run every candidate past all three, and answer the angle question out loud before you copy the link. The next stage, building your first piece of content around the product you chose, is where the actual work starts.