Amazon Associates (US)
Amazon's affiliate program. Approval is tied to sales you drive after you sign up, and to a review of the sites you list.
Requirements as stated on the source
- After you sign up, Amazon checks your application 'once you've driven qualified sales (we require at least three within the first 180 days)'. Personal orders do not qualify.
- All sites you list must have robust original content ('a good rule of thumb is at least 10 posts') and be publicly available (not a closed group or behind a paywall).
- For social pages Amazon says the page must be established with 'a substantive number of organic followers/likes (in most cases, at least 500)' and public.
Process
Apply, then drive three qualifying sales within 180 days. Amazon: 'we aren't able to reassess an application once it's been rejected.'
Notes and caveats
- The same help topic also lists which social networks are accepted; the list in the excerpt we saw may be out of date, check the live page.
- Amazon's Operating Agreement allows it to change terms with notice; see the agreement page.
Sources
- https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/help/node/topic/G8TW5AE9XL2VX9VM (main source)
- https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/help/operating/agreement
How we read it: official page; text seen only as a search-result excerpt. Rules change; confirm on the program's own page. This page has no affiliate links.