Amazon MP3 Affiliate / Referral Program -- A new way to make money on the web ... I hope

by Paula Neal Mooney

Looking for the Amazon MP3 affiliate / referral program?

So am I.

Recently Amazon MP3 Beta was announced, where folks who click on an affiliate / referral link like this one can download music online -- and affiliate marketers online like me would get a cut of the money they pay Amazon -- for all our hard work in telling people about it.

I already like Amazon's affiliate program a lot -- especially since they just deposited $55.75 in my checking account today.

I've discovered that people like downloading full TV episodes online thru my television site -- amazingly even when I lead them to the free full episode on the network TV's site to watch for no cost, some will still opt to buy individual TV episodes for around 2 bucks a pop -- and that trend is only going to continue.

(If you sign up for Amazon Associates free affiliate / referral program and start hawking their wares, you get a flat 10% payout of everything they download thru Amazon Unbox.)

Does Amazon MP3 Have an Affiliate / Referral Programing Coming Soon?

So I naturally tried to create links thru the Build/Links Widgets module of Amazon, but no dice. All the MP3s as of this writing that I saw have a code of B000SHEA4M, which can't be found.

Get Creative to Get Paid Online...

When I looked around for details of the Amazon MP3 Affiliate / Referral Program on Amazon, I found none yet.

So I used their "Classic Links" module to build an Amazon MP3 Affiliate / Referral link like this one where you first go to the Amazon page you want to send people too (I chose the Christian / Gospel MP3 music section for this example), then under classic links choose the "Add to Your Webpage" under "Text Links" and then "Enter the URL" at the bottom under the "Link to Any Page at Amazon.com" option, then enter the "Name Your Link" to put in anchor text.

For example, I just created a link where Al Green music lovers can download Al Green songs thru Amazon MP3.

And I also sometimes link the photo (like this photo of Al Green) directly to the related affiliate page (by changing the website that the "a href" goes to in the HTML code) as oppossed to just using "iframe" code like below, because though that shows up on your website and your feed, it doesn't show up in Feedburner nor Feedblitz emails you send to your readers.

That playing around works great for selling the Amazon Unbox stuff, which are definitely under Amazon's Affiliate Program.

Hopefully it'll work for Amazon MP3 downloads, or maybe they'll just put the Amazon MP3 downloads under an actual affiliate / referral program soon -- so we can begin getting paid to lead folks to their favorite songs, too.

Anyway, happy Amazon MP3 affiliate revenue making!

Paula's List of Blogger Salaries...Are you on the list?

Update: For those who continue to enjoy this post, check out my website about 50 real online people making more than $50k per year , and my page where I update my online salary . UPDATE: Before you read any further or especially link to this old list, please check out "Paula's New List of Blogger Salaries (and Webmasters, Affiliate Marketers, Content Scrapers, Domainers and any other title you can think of) June 2007" by clicking here! ~ Thanks, PAULA NEAL MOONEY by Paula Neal Mooney One of my favorite features in Parade magazine is the issue where they grab a random sampling of people and report their incomes -- from the millionaires to the working poor. Since I'm fascinated with how much money bloggers and webmasters are making nowadays, I've created a similar list -- a random sampling of people making money on the net. Who's on Paula's List of Blogger and Webmaster Salaries? I spent hours and hours scouring the internet for the last-reporte...

Paula's New List of Blogger Salaries (and Webmasters, Affiliate Marketers, Content Scrapers, Domainers and any other title you can think of) June 2007

FIND OUT HOW MUCH BLOGGERS REALLY MAKE ONLINE -- CHECK OUT THIS NEW WEBSITE ABOUT MONEY-MAKING ONLINE CALLED 50 OVER $50K... by Paula Neal Mooney The time has come. The time is now. Paula N. Mooney will you please publish that list now?! (Yes, I fancy Dr. Seuss' iambic pentameter.) My WebMaster blest me with a viral post called "Paula's List of Blogger Salaries," and the response was so wonderful, here lies an update. It's bigger and better than ever before with more pics, and double the amount of bloggers, webmasters, domainers, affiliate marketers (or a smidgen of some or all of those titles) and their reported incomes. How Much Do You Make? Money is funny. The abundance of it, the lack of it, the subject of cash in general gets attention. While some invoke their choice not to post their online income nor discuss it at all, I've always been of the Suze Orman mindset ever since I read her first book. Suze encourages people to talk ab...

† Tissa Godavitarne - Scam? Hoax? Or Internet Marketing Genius? Read these reviews...

UPDATE - I can't do it. Just as soon as I signed up with Tissa's people search engine, I cancelled. I just don't feel right about helping people find other people's addresses and phone numbers. AND THIS PRIVACY ISSUE IS GAINING STEAM. CHECK OUT THE CONTROVERSY BREWING OVER THE MYLIFE.COM PRIVACY SELLING ISSUES THAT TISSA USES TO PROVIDE THE PEOPLE SEARCH ENGINE INFO. I know I could probably make money with it, but it's just not sitting right with my soul. Back to the drawing board. I know better things await... I kept trying to rationalize that many people could use the people search engines for good purposes, like reconnecting with old classmates and finding deadbeat dads and such -- but the reality is that if just one person uses them for nefarious purposes, I just don't want to be a part of that. I wonder if Tissa would care if people found out the address of his fabulous home, and came a' knocking on his door? How I Bought a Brand New $1.2 Million Dolla...

PAULA NEAL MOONEY

Search This Blog