Sell Books on Your Website

A great way to offer your customers additional infomation and make some money at the same time is to join a website affiliate program with Amazon (US-based) or Fishpond (New Zealand and Australia) to promote books of your choosing on your website or blog. See the Blogging Books section on the right sidebar of this blog as an example of what you can do.

Sell Amazon Books – Earn up to 8% from referrals

To join Amazon Associates, go to the Amazon website and click on Associates Program on the left sidebar. Once your membership has been approved, you login and go to Build Widgets/Links. Before you start building links or widgets, it is a good idea to visit the main website and find all the books you want to promote on your site, scroll down each book listing to find the ASBN number and make a note of it. Once you have created a widget or link, it is just a matter of pasting the code into your website or blog. The great thing about Amazon is that it is not only books, but also music, toys, clothing and millions of other products which may complement your products.

Find out more about getting your own Amazon aStore…

Types of links

1. You can create a box similar to the one on my website using the “My Favourites” link.
2. You can choose a banner link like the one below.
   
3. If you have a free WordPress blog, you can create product links to individual books and paste them inside posts or pages for users to click on.
4. You can also build your own A-Store full of all your favourite books etc.
5. See other examples of Amazon widgets and banners in the sidebars of Kath’s Sticky Websites blog.

Sell Fishpond Books – 10% commission on books, music and movies

To join the Fishpond Affiliate Program go to http://www.fishpond.co.nz/affiliate_info.php?osCsid=cb24edb2cdd74d8586607794311c2471. Fishpond is based in New Zealand and Australia so if your customers are mostly in New Zealand, this is a good one to use in terms of delivery costs and range of New Zealand books. Once your membership has been approved, you login on left side of the website and go to Build Links. Before you start you need to visit the main Fishpond website and find all the books you want to promote on your site. You then make a note of the product number (the 7 digit number at the end of the page url) of each book. Once you have built a link, you simply paste the code into your website or blog.

Types of Links

1. Build a Link- You create links with a photo of the book to paste into a post or page on your website.
2. Product Links – You can put general banners onto your site like the one below.

All links contain your unique affiliate code so Amazon or Fishpond know that visitors have come from your website. Give it a try and add value to your website and your business.

I’ll be posting links to more great affiliate websites over the next few weeks. Please let me know how you get on with Amazon or Fishpond in the comments box below.