Amazon Affiliate - Noob Question

This may sound like a really dumb question but hey Im gonna ask it anyway to kill my curiousity

With Amazon, if you link to a specific item on your site and the customer through your affiliate link decides to purchase other Amazon items, do you get a commission on all the items they purchase if Amazon pays a commission on those items?

Cheers

 

Yes, you get paid on other purchases and 3rd party purchases but you get 2.5% more if they buy from direct links from your site to the product.

 

Thanks for that!

 

Ive been doing a bit of reading on the Amazon site and it says the maximum commissions it pays out is 10% Did it not use to be more than this, something like 15% ?

 

Considering the have a profit margin that most business owners would make give up their business, handing out 15% would kill them. With 10% commission there's isn't much of the pie left for them actually.

 

Used books used to have more than 10% on payout.

 

Amazon has a decent payout IMO in general. I send folks there all the time from my forums with my affilliate links. Works OK, worth the effort for sure.

 

Every visitor you send to amazon gets a cookie which lasts for 24 hours. If he buys something within this 24 hours you get some % but you get higher % if the buys the item that made him reach the amazon page...

 

What if cookies are disabled?I think there must be some record of Ip address.

 

then you'll only get credit if he buys something within that session

 

Yep, you'll get the commission for everything they buy for the next 24 hours. So even if they clicked on a link for a £2.99 book and ended up buying a £3000 TV DVD player and a bunch of cables, you'd get the commission for all those items! Pretty sweet how it works, although that doesnt tend to happen too often

 

Lot of potential with amazon aff sites

 

Damn straight, tons of potential if you scale it too.

 

Sometimes it does happen. Amazon is quite enticing in terms of attracting people to products.