Amazon Associates is one of the most accessible affiliate programs there is: anyone can join, the catalogue is enormous and impulse buying is common. That also means a great many people promoting the same deals to the same people.
Deal groups
It is the most used channel, and the most saturated. It works better when you own the group or when you specialise: instead of dumping everything, pick a niche — kitchen, pets, tools — and become the reference for it.
Short video showing the product in use
Cheap products sell through demonstration, not description. A ten-second video of the thing working converts better than any text about specifications.
A roundup page of your own
A page with "the best kitchen finds under $50" keeps paying off months later. It is the only format that compounds instead of disappearing into the feed. You need a simple site, and it becomes your asset.
Search sites
Someone searching for a specific product is far closer to buying than someone scrolling a feed. Putting your roundup page into a network of search sites, like Magneth, reaches that person — and does not depend on the group being active that day.
What gets accounts closed
- bidding on the brand name in paid ads, which is usually prohibited;
- promising a discount that does not exist to get the click;
- blasting links to people who did not ask.
Programs close accounts for this, and getting one back is hard. The full picture, with the other platforms, is in how to promote affiliate links.
