Amazon Bounty Program

What is the Amazon Bounty Program?

In addition to earning advertising fees by product category, you can also earn fixed fees from your advertising. These extra premiums are not geared toward

products, but are paid for the promotion of select Amazon.in services, like the one listed below. You receive a fixed advertising fee once a referral that you sent

from your website signs up for a subscription to an Amazon service – the fee you earn is called a ‘bounty’. Promoting Amazon services is just as easy as

promoting products – you just integrate an Associate Link or banner into your website. You can use our SiteStripe Tool for this, or use an already- created banner

from Associates Central.

We are currently offering two types of bounties for Amazon.in Associates Program. Learn more about them below:

Earn INR 50/- bounty for every eligible customer account creation for Amazon Business
What is Amazon Business?
Amazon Business is changing the way companies buy supplies. For most small businesses, buying supplies can be time-consuming and frustrating. Finding the

best product at the best price can be a challenge, especially when they have other tasks that need to be completed. Amazon Business is the solution and brings

big benefits to businesses of all sizes and industries.

How can you earn on the Amazon Business Bounty?

 Add one of our ready-to-use banners to your website from the collection here
 Write an article about a relevant topic and include a link to Amazon Business
 See an example by Business Line here
 You can create your tagged affiliate link here:
https://www.amazon.in/tryab?tag=AssociateTrackingID; (don't forget to include your associate ID)
 Earn INR 50 for every qualifying Amazon Business account registration you drive!
 Earn INR 150/- bounty for every qualifying Audible action
What is Audible?
Audible is a subscription-driven audiobook service with a catalog of over 200,000 audiobooks and a mix of bestselling Indian and international authors.

Whatever your passion, your interests, or favourite authors, there’s a perfect audiobook for you. You can listen to A-list celebrities narrate their

favourite stories, original & exclusive audiobooks, full-cast performances, and more. Browse through Great First Listens, Indian Audiobooks and get

Personalized Recommendations.

How can you earn on the Audible Bounty?

 Add one of our ready-to-use banners to your website from the collection here
 Write an article about Audible Audiobooks, our authors or relevant topic and include a link to Audible.
 You can create your tagged affiliate link here:
https://www.amazon.in/dp/B077S5CVBQ/?ref=assoc_tag_sept19?actioncode=AINOTH066082819002X&tag=AssociateTrackingID (don't forget to
include your associate ID)
 Earn INR 150 for every qualifying Audible action you drive!

How To Use The Amazon Link Builder WordPress Plug-in

Overview

The Amazon Associates Link Builder WordPress plug-in can help you integrate Amazon products into your site in an easy and attractive way, with just

a few clicks. The Link Builder is a free, official WordPress plug-in that is designed to make it easy for Amazon Associates members to search for

Amazon products to include on your site. With the plug-in, you can link directly to those products – all with just a few clicks, and without having to leave

your WordPress Editor. Using the Amazon Associates Link Builder means you don’t have to manually integrate important product information, such as

product names, descriptions and preview images. Instead, the Link Builder plug-in generates shortcodes, which you use to select Amazon product data

in different display formats and then output on your own website.

Signing up for the Associates Program

You need to be a valid member of the Associates program in the locale that you wish to use the plugin for. To become an Associate, create an Amazon

Associates account using URL for the appropriate countries:

 Brazil - https://associados.amazon.com.br/
 Canada- https://associates.amazon.ca/
 China - https://associates.amazon.cn/
 France - http://partenaires.amazon.fr/
 Germany - https://partnernet.amazon.de/
 India - http://affiliate-program.amazon.in/
 Italy - https://programma-affiliazione.amazon.it/
 Japan - https://affiliate.amazon.co.jp/
 Mexico - https://afiliados.amazon.com.mx/
 Spain - https://afiliados.amazon.es/
 United Kingdom - https://affiliate-program.amazon.co.uk/
 United States - https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/
Choosing a Template

As a member of the Amazon Associates Program, you want to show Amazon products on your website. There are various templates within Link

Builder to do this, for various use cases – such as a price link, a product box, a product carousel and a display of several products in a grid view. In

addition to these templates, you can also create or use your own existing templates (To customize templates though, basic HTML and CSS

programming is required). We recommend you play with the existing templates to see what works best for you and then take the extra effort to

customize templates once you have a good understanding of each template.

Generating a Short Code

After selecting a template, its short code can then be automatically inserted into the text field of your WordPress Editor. The short code also

automatically includes the tracking ID of the website participating in the Associates Program. The plug-in also accesses the Amazon Product

Advertising API in real-time, and provides up-to-the-minute information on product images, prices and the availability of the respective products via this

interface.

Geo-Targeted Product Links

Starting with version 1.5.0, the Amazon Associates Link Builder plugin for WordPress (AALB) supports addition of Geo-Targeted links in all templates.

This will enable Amazon Associates to create content customized for and better monetize their international traffic. Before you can use the Geo-

Targeting feature in AALB, there are a few one-time setup activities that you have to complete.

 Register in the appropriate marketplace Amazon Associates program Depending on which countries you have international traffic from, you
should ensure that you have registered as an Amazon Associates, and created store-ids or tracking ids in each of your accounts.
 Configure the plugin for international monetization. In your WordPress admin dashboard, navigate to Associates Link Builder > Settings. For
each country that you’ve registered in, ensure that there is a row in the Tracking Id(s) section, along with all the tracking ids that you would like to use
in your WordPress site. You may select any one of your marketplaces as your default marketplace using the links in the right-most column. Please see
the following screenshot as an example:
Note that AALB does not validate the tracking ids entered, so please make sure that the correct tracking ids as configured in the respective country

Associates Central portal are added to your configuration, else you might lose attribution and revenue. Additionally, make sure that accurate PA-API

credentials are configured in the PA-API credentials section. These credentials should be linked to the same accounts as the tracking ids configured

for your site. Once all the settings have been configured correctly, the Amazon Search box and button should be enabled on your Add New

Post page.

 Content Creation Workflow You can post any search term (similar to searching on the Amazon retail sites), and click the search button. The Add
shortcode dialog will open, along with search results from your default marketplace:
You can now:

-· Select the Ad Template to use to display the selected products in. Please note that the same ad template will be used to display products in all

countries. However, the actual products that we display will be targeted to the traffic source of the visitors to your site.

-· Select products to display customers in your default country.

-· Change the Search Phrase to select from a different set of products

-· Click the Add ProductSet for Country tab to add a tab and product set to display for a different country. You can add product sets for as many

countries as you have configured in your plugin settings.

The above steps can be performed in any order, and you can keep editing your selections, before you click the Add Short code button. Once you have

selected product sets for all countries that you want to target for, then you can click the Add Short code button to insert the short code in your post.
Once you have clicked Add Short code, you will see a short code of this form inserted in your post:

[amazon_link

asins='B0753VX2CB,B074PCR86M,B076FGMBJR,B075NT6T39|B00YD545CC,B01N9YOF3R,B00YD54HZ2,B071W3DDM7,B00YD546IA|B0764FLP

KQ,B0714DP3BG,B01LZKSVRB' template='ProductCarousel' store='br-1|us-1|in-1' marketplace='BR|DE|IN' link_id='f863a353-cea3-11e7-a36d-

bbeba5c8a631']

After you have published the post, visitors to the page will see the products that you have selected for the marketplace from which they are visiting. In

the above example, visitors from DE will see the products selected for the Germany marketplace, product titles in German, and price in EUR. Visitors

from BR will see the products from the BR marketplace will see the products selected for the Brazil marketplace and so on. Visitors from countries that

you haven’t selected products for will see the products from your default marketplace, or the first marketplace in the short code.

Other Key Features

Other features of the Amazon Associates Link Builder WordPress plug-in at a glance:
 Search for Amazon products from the WordPress Editor
 Display up-to-date product information of advertised products on your website
 Easily integrate various affilitate links via shortcodes - where ready-made or custom templates can be used
 Choose between responsive design for your product boxes or fixed, custom display sizes
 Control each user's access by setting User Roles in WordPress
Link Builder FAQs

1. What versions of WordPress does the plugin work with? The plugin is compatible with v3.0.1 up to v4.9.

2. I have accounts with several Amazon associates programs (in different locales). Will the plugin work for me? Yes! You can use the same

plugin across all the locales in which you have an associates account. Use the settings within the plugin to indicate which locales you have signed up

for and their tracking IDs. From that point, you’re all set.

3. During setup, I’m being asked for various “keys”. What are these and how do I get them? The Link Builder plugin leverages our Product

Advertising API and the API requires access credentials, aka keys, specific to your Amazon account in order to function. Visit it to sign up for API

access or to get your keys. A detailed description of the Product Advertising API is available here.

4. The plugin update changelog is asking me to back up custom templates that I created. How do I do that? Instructions for backing up your

custom templates can be found here. This is solely due to security reasons. Users who have already updated the plugin did not experience any

changes to the templates.

5. How do I delete the plugin? In your plugin overview, first deactivate the plugin. Then check if your website is still fully functioning. After deactivating

the plugin, you can delete it from the plugin overview or delete the folder “amazon-associates-link-builder” in the path content/plugins on your server.

6. How do I access my earnings and other reports? You can see your earnings and other reports from the respective country Associates Portal.

7. How do I get rid of the exclamation mark at the end of the Price Link template? Create a cloned version of the Price Link template, drop the “!”

from the HTML/Mustache section, and save the template under a different name

Geo Targeting feature FAQs

1. How will the geo-targeting feature benefit me? The geo-targeting feature lets you monetize any traffic from other countries that was harder to

monetize earlier. In accordance with our Operating Agreement, attribution to amazon links placed on your site does not hold if the end user has to

switch to a different country specific website to complete his/her purchase. Similarly, if you send users to the correct country website, but with an

incorrect country’s tracking id (not valid in that locale), then you will not get paid the affiliate fees for that sale. Many associates use complex home-

grown systems, or unreliable 3rd party systems to overcome these limitations. These systems might have trust, reliability and pricing implications on

your business. The geo-targeting feature in the WordPress plugin aims to reduce this complexity and give you more control on your monetization of

global traffic.

2. How do I use the geo-targeting feature in the plugin? As a part of the global settings in the plugin, you can configure which countries you want to

work with, and the respective tracking id(s). You will also need to provide a set of PA-API credentials, which are connected to each of your respective

country associate accounts. You will only need to do this once. As you create content, you will see a tabbed pane which lets you select product sets for
each country that you have configured in the plugin. You should pick your default country as the first product set configured. The corresponding short

code that is generated will have all the information required to render ads appropriately. When a user visits your site, we use the user’s location to

determine which of the product sets to display to the user, and the corresponding ads are rendered. If the user is from a location that you haven’t

configured, then your default product set is displayed to the user.

We need your Feedback! As a part of our ongoing effort to provide better educational content we would like your feedback on the Associates

Resource Center. Please share your thoughts here.

VERY IMPORTANT
What is the Product Advertising API (PA API)?
The Product Advertising API (PA API) provides programmatic access for users to search and get detailed product information. Users can get detailed
information about products such as product title, description, image urls, prices, similar products, prime eligibility, offers and many other details that can
be used to monetize their websites by giving recommendations and promoting the products.

Things to know before you start

Is the Amazon PA API right tool for me?
Product Advertising API is intended to get programmatic access to retrieve and process Amazon product information for hundreds of products
programmatically.

Is there an alternative to PA API to build links?

Yes, if you do not need programmatic access to Amazon's products, you can use SiteStripe to build links from Amazon.in that can be used to monetise
your website.

Do I need programming skills to use PA API?

Yes, you are required to have programming skills to use PA API.

How do I get access to PA API?

In order to qualify for requesting access to PA API, you will need an associate account, you will have to complete 3 qualifying sales in the first 180 days
and you will have to comply with the Operating Agreement. Once your account is approved as an associate account, you will see a 'Request for PA
API access' button below. You can click the button to get access to PA API.

Request access to PA API

To request for access to PA API you must:

❌ Have completed 3 qualifying sales in 180 days.

❌ Have an approved associate account.
❌ Comply with the associates programme Operating Agreement.
Alternatively try

Submit
SiteStripe

Access Product Selection

Get automated & real-time access to Amazon’s selection of millions of products in categories such as electronics, appliances, books, apparel, music
and more from Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.br, Amazon.com.mx, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.de, Amazon.fr, Amazon.es, Amazon.it, Amazon.co.jp,
Amazon.cn, Amazon.in

Amazon Product Discovery Capabilities

Leverage our customer-centric features such as Product Search, Customer Reviews, Similar Products, Accessories, top sellers, new releases and
more

Monetize Your Website

Seamlessly include your Associate tag in the API requests to automatically format the URLs returned by the API. This will ensure that you earn
advertising fees when the users that you refer buy qualifying products on Amazon

SPECIAL PROGRAM FEES

TABLE 2 – Bounty Events

Bounty-Eligible Program Homepage Bounty Action Eligible Customer Bounty Fee

Audible Free Trial Not Applicable Successful registration for A customer who meets the 150
an Audible Free Trial on eligibility requirements for
Amazon.in the Audible Free Trial

Audible Paid Membership Not applicable Successful registration for A customer who meets the 150
Plan an Audible paid eligibility requirements for
membership plan on the Audible paid
Amazon.in membership plan

Amazon Business https://www.amazon.in/tryA Successful registration for A business which meets 50

B an Amazon Business the eligibility requirements
account for an Amazon Business
account and which has not
previously registered for an
Amazon Business account.