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Amazon Affiliate Program - 6 Ways to MAXIMIZE Your Earnings! - YouTube
Channel: Justin Brown - Primal Video
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I'm gonna share the top six strategies
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that we use to maximize our earnings in
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the Amazon affiliate program including
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how to easily recapture Commission's
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that most people are losing every time
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they use their Amazon affiliate
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marketing links hey it's Justin Brown
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here from primal video we hope you grow
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an audience and scale your revenue with
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online video if you're new here make
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sure to click that subscribe button and
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all the links to everything we mentioned
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in this video you can find linked in the
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description box below so let's jump into
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it now whenever we're looking to buy a
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physical product Amazon is usually the
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first place that will look so we have
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absolutely no issues at all recommending
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it and it just so happens that they also
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have an amazing affiliate program so in
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this video we're going to be covering
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these six simple strategies that we've
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implemented to not only capture
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otherwise lost Commission's but also to
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maximize our earnings and how you can
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easily implement them in your Amazon
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affiliate marketing strategy right now
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as well now just before we dive in a
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really quick disclaimer Amazon is
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constantly updating their terms of
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conditions for their affiliate program
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and what is accepted one day might be
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against the rules the next they are
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widely recognized for strictly enforcing
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these rules and sometimes without
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warning so even though this stuff is
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working for us right now always make
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sure to review their Terms of Service to
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ensure that you are in compliance and
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that includes doing your own due
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diligence before implementing anything
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that we cover in this video now as a
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little bonus at the end of this video
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I'm also going to cover the top three
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most common reasons that I've seen
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people get banned from the program so
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that you can avoid the same problems
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because honestly some of them aren't
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that obvious so strategy number one is
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to sign up for multiple Amazon associate
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programs not just the one in your region
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but in other regions as well I think
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right now there are 12 different regions
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or 12 different Amazon associate
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programs for different regions around
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the world and a lot of people aren't
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aware that they can actually do this and
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this can dramatically increase your
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affiliate revenue on Amazon especially
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if you combine it with the next two
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platforms that I'm going to mention as
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well so each of the different Amazon
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affiliate programs for each of the
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different regions will actually only
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earn your commission inside of that
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region
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so in order to earn a commission on a
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side
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from someone purchasing in the US you
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need to be signed up with the US Amazon
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Associates program
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likewise in Australia you need to be a
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member of the Australian Associates
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Program and each of your affiliate links
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for each of those associated programs
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will only earn you a commission in one
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location so let's say that I have
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registered for the US Amazon associate
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program I send out my link if someone is
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from Australia they click on my US link
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they then redirected to the Australian
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store and purchase on there then I don't
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receive a commission for that because my
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link is for the US program and likewise
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it works that way no matter which
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associate program you're with now to
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help with this you can use Amazon's one
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link that's what they call it it's a
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service that helps with the redirecting
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of the users to their local store while
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still passing through your tracking
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details now this is slowly rolling out
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it's definitely not out there for
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everyone yet and it currently doesn't
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support all the countries are all the
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different regions and it only works if
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you're linking from your website these
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links with Amazon one link don't work on
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YouTube yet so hopefully they sort that
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out in the future but this will lead us
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straight on to strategy number two which
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is using genius links now genius links
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is essentially doing what that Amazon 1
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link promises to do but it does it right
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now and it works really really well and
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it's also got a bunch of extra
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functionality in there as well so what
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you do ingenious links is you add in all
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of your affiliate details for all of the
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different Amazon affiliate programs that
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you've signed up to because you're now
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signing up to multiples and it generates
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you one link one genius link that you
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can send out to people they're going to
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be automatically redirected to their
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local Amazon store and your affiliate
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link or affiliate tracking ID is passed
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along with this now just from
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implementing genius links alone we've
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had a big increase in our affiliate
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revenue on Amazon because our links are
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now being tracked across the multiple
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Amazon programs they also have amazing
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reporting in there showing you all the
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links that you've generated if products
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are out of stock in different regions if
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something is no longer available you can
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actually get alerts and those sorts of
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things through to your email to let you
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know to update that link and point it to
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a different product and there's a heap
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of other features and really detailed
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reporting and stuff in there as well so
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pricing Virginia's links
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at $5.00 per month and it scales with
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the amount of lint clicks that you're
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actually getting so totally amazing
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service genius links well played that
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brings us to strategy number three is to
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use kit Cove now KidCo is actually now
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owned by genius or genius links which is
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probably why that's so good - so what
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kit lets you do is essentially build out
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kits or groups of Amazon links and put
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them in one place so for example we use
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this on our resources page we've built
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our kits for different things like the
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best live-streaming yeah or even my
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youtube studio set up here we've created
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kits for these where it's one place that
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people can go it's all of our top
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recommended gear or top recommended
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products and all of them are direct
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links to Amazon but they are Amazon
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affiliate links and just like genius
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links it also does that automatic
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redirection to the users local Amazon
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store and still passes through your
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affiliate tracking information as well
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now another cool thing with kit is that
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it's also its own search engine so you
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can use your youtube SEO skills to rank
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your products or your affiliate links on
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kit octo as well and again if you're
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looking to level up on the youtube SEO
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side of things or the keyword ranking
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side of things then make sure you stick
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around because I've got a resource for
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you towards the end of this video now in
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terms of pricing kit is totally free you
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actually get 100% of your Amazon
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earnings they make their money from
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people who create kits and forget to put
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their amazon associate information in
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and they use theirs in that case so as
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long as you're putting in your amazon
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associate information you'll make 100
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percent of your amazon earnings through
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kit Co as well so that's strategy number
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three using kit Co strategy number four
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is using redirect links now starting out
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you might think that you don't need to
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do this but trust me this is gonna save
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you so much time and potentially a lot
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of headaches in the long run so what I'm
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talking about is creating a redirect
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link a link that you share out that will
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redirect people to your affiliate link
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so you're not just sharing out the
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affiliate link that you get from Amazon
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you're using your own version of it so
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in our case a lot of our affiliate links
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are redirect links we use primal video
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calm /go /the product or the service so
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then if for some reason we needed to
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update our affiliate link we're able to
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just update that on our end on our
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website and that then is redirecting to
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wherever we'd like it to go so this
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alone could save you an absolute ton of
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time because you're not then going to
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have to go back to potentially hundreds
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of YouTube videos or blog posts or
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articles or anything to update each link
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manually you can do it once on your end
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because you're just changing where that
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link is redirecting to so effectively it
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is gonna let you quickly and easily
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update a product or a link in one place
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that's then gonna be pushed out
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everywhere now in terms of how you can
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actually set up and create and manage
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your redirect links for us right now for
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Amazon we are primarily using genius
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links for this as well but to manage
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redirect links in general outside of the
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Amazon stuff as well then we also use a
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wordpress plugin called thirsty
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affiliates which is again really simple
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to use
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now one thing I do want to note here is
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that Amazon says that you need to make
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it clear that any redirect link that you
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use is taking people to Amazon so for us
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we use the word Amazon in brackets in
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our link text so that we're clearly
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indicating to people that these links
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are going to redirect and take people to
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Amazon now this is something that they
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might update in the future and the
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wording on this can still be a little
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gray right now now genius links have
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done their own reviews and they have
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liaised with the Amazon Associates team
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and for now this appears to be
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acceptable but do your own reviews and I
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will link an article from genius links
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below in the description if you want
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more information on this so that brings
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us then to strategy number five which is
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a resources page or a gear page or the
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stuff that you recommend other people
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use page so this is one place where you
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list out all of the stuff that you
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recommend yeah books audio books
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services courses and of course this also
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includes your Amazon links as well so
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for us on our website we have a
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resources page primal video calm
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/resources and it's all the stuff that
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we use and that we recommend to our
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audience so for us on this page we also
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have a combination of some of the things
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that we have mentioned in this video as
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well we literally have our
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KidCo kits embedded on our resources
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page things like the gear that I use and
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recommend all of those kits are embedded
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on that page so not only are they
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working for us in their SEO goodness on
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kit Co they're also on our page to make
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it easy for people to find everything
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all in one place as well and this is
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something that I want to stress you
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don't need to overthink you could just
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create a simple one-page website with
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something like Wix or a Squarespace or
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something don't overcomplicate it
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just make it easy for your followers or
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for your audience to find the stuff that
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you use and that you recommend without
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them needing to ask you I can't stress
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how huge this has been for us but the
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biggest strategy and probably the most
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important strategy is strategy number
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six and that is to be authentic and to
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focus on adding value for your audience
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and I really should go without saying
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but only recommend the products and
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services that you've tried that you've
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tested the stuff that you recommend for
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your audience there's too many people
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out there giving affiliate marketing a
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bad name by just picking the products
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that aren't necessarily the best
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products that have the best Commission's
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or the highest payouts but I also see
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these days that people are getting more
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and more switched on to it and they can
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tell when something's not authentic or
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not real so always try to come from that
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place where you're adding value and
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really trying to go that extra mile for
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your audience if there are multiple
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versions of something that you recommend
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with maybe different add-ons or
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different pricing spend the time to work
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out which one you recommend people buy
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and link it to that make the buying
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experience better for your users
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you're going to end up saving them a ton
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of time and you're going to maximize the
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likelihood that they're going to buy
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from you and that you'll earn a
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commission now if you're mentioning a
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product and there are additional add-on
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products that are needed to make
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something work then you could actually
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create affiliate links for those too so
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for example we always talk about the
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different types of cameras and the
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different types of microphones but we
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also create affiliate links for any of
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the cable adapters or anything that's
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required to actually connect the two
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together this way people who already
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have the camera already have the audio
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gear can then easily get the add-ons or
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the accessories they need to make the
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whole thing work so your goal here is to
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really make it as easy as you can
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for your audience to achieve a specific
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outcome and then they're going to look
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for your links and look for your
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recommendations to help them get to that
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outcome now earlier in this video I said
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I'd share with you three simple things
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to help you avoid getting banned on
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Amazon so quick disclaimer their privacy
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policy their terms of services are
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always changing and this is just what
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we've seen people getting banned for so
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avoid this stuff and all costs and make
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sure to review the terms of services or
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terms of conditions frequently so the
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first one is don't indicate any
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incentive or reward for people to click
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your links monetary or otherwise what a
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lot of people don't realize is is that
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this also means no mentions that people
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will be supporting you if they click
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your links we've seen people getting
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banned for this and we've even got a
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warning for something similar in the
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past the second one is to always
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identify yourself as an Amazon affiliate
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and make sure that any earning
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disclosures are exactly as Amazon
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requires they set out some exact wording
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for this and make sure you get the
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latest version from their Terms of
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Service and use that and the third one
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is to make sure it's clear that everyone
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who clicks your Amazon affiliate links
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will be directed to Amazon while it's
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not an issue if you're using Amazon's
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links if you're using any sort of
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redirects then it does become a bit of a
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gray area as I mentioned earlier genius
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links has done their research and they
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say that they've got the tick of
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approval from Amazon but you need to at
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least indicate next to those links that
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they go to Amazon's website with an
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Amazon in brackets or something similar
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if it's not otherwise clear and obvious
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so stay safe it's an awesome affiliate
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program you just don't want to
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jeopardize your earnings and have them
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disappear overnight because of one
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oversight they do monitor this stuff and
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we've seen some big channels get shut
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down so don't take any chances but
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enough of the negativity now that you've
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got these tactics if you're looking to
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maximise the traffic that you're sending
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to Amazon then grab your copy of our
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free YouTube ranking guide which is
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linked on screen now this is going to
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help you with the tools and the
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strategies to help you get your content
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ranking on both YouTube and on Google
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I'll see you in the next one
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