How to Get an Amazon Affiliate Link (Desktop and App)

To get an Amazon affiliate link, join Amazon Associates and sign in to Amazon with that account. On a computer, open any product page, click Get Link in the SiteStripe bar at the top and copy the short text link. On your phone, open the product in the Amazon shopping app, tap Share and choose Copy Associates Link. Both links carry your tracking ID, so qualifying purchases after the click earn you commission.

That's the five-second answer. The rest of this guide covers where you're allowed to post the link, what Amazon doesn't allow, and how to keep dozens of links usable for your followers. Amazon's steps come from its Associates Central help pages, checked in October 2026. Amazon updates these screens from time to time, so the button names may shift.

How do you get an Amazon affiliate link, step by step?

Sources: How to use Amazon SiteStripe and Share associate links from anywhere, Amazon Associates Resource Center.

On desktop:

1. Sign in to amazon.com with the same login as your Associates account.
2. Open the product page. The SiteStripe bar shows at the very top.
3. Click Get Link, keep Text selected and copy the short link (amzn.to).
4. If you run more than one tracking ID, pick the right one first, so you can see which channel sold.

In the app:

1. Sign in to the Amazon shopping app with your Associates login.
2. Open the product, tap Share, then Copy Associates Link.
3. If the product isn't eligible for commission, the app tells you that a link isn't available.

No SiteStripe bar? Check that you're signed in with the Associates login, not a household account, and that your Associates account is active.

Where can you share Amazon affiliate links?

Amazon wants the links on the sites and profiles you listed in your Associates account. In practice:

• Allowed: your website or blog, your social profiles, video descriptions, your bio page and storefront pages you control. Add your link page to the list of sites in your Associates account.
• With conditions: emails, SMS and direct messages from your social accounts, only to people who opted in.
• Not allowed: offline promotion, printed material and e-books. Link shorteners or buttons that make it unclear the link goes to Amazon, and cloaked URLs, are also banned.
• Always: a disclosure. Amazon's Operating Agreement requires you to "clearly and prominently" state "As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases," and the FTC expects a clear disclosure near the link.

Read the current Associates Program Policies and Operating Agreement before you post in a new place. They change, and a violation can close the account with unpaid commission.

How much does an Amazon affiliate link earn?

Amazon pays a percentage of the price, set by the category of what the buyer purchases. Amazon publishes its rates in a fee schedule inside Associates Central. Third-party copies of the US schedule (for example on Lasso) list about 1% to 4% for many everyday categories, 10% for luxury beauty and 20% for Amazon Games.

Two details help more than the rate:

• You earn on the whole cart. Qualifying purchases in the session count, not only the product you linked.
• The window is short. For most purchases, the cookie is widely reported to last 24 hours after the click, so links work best where people decide fast: a video description, a pinned comment, a bio link to the product they just saw.

How do you keep many Amazon links usable?

One link per post is easy. Thirty links across your videos is where followers get lost. Three options:

If your followers buy only on Amazon, an Amazon storefront is the simplest choice; our guide shows how to create an Amazon storefront. If you also recommend products from Walmart, Target or smaller shops, see when to build your own Amazon storefront alternative.

Where does Zelect fit with Amazon links?

Zelect is the storefront tool we build, so weigh this with that in mind. It doesn't create Amazon links, approve you for Associates or take a cut. You make the link with SiteStripe or the app, as above, and paste it into Zelect.

Zelect turns the link into a product card with a photo, title and price, filled in automatically when the store page exposes them, or typed in by you when Amazon's page doesn't. You sort products into categories with their own links, and one product can carry several buy links, such as Amazon and Walmart. Add your Zelect URL to the site list in your Associates account, and keep the Amazon disclosure on the page.

The Free plan has 1 storefront with 25 products and 3 categories, with no time limit. Pro is $4.90 a month and Ultra is $5.90 a month, with click analytics on Ultra. The Zelect pricing page lists every limit.

What should you do next?

1. Make your first link with SiteStripe and test it in a private window.
2. Add every place you'll post it to your Associates account.
3. Put the Amazon disclosure on your bio page.
4. Track which links get clicked. Our guide to tracking affiliate link clicks covers tracking IDs and UTMs.

Start a free Zelect storefront for your Amazon links and the ones from other stores. No card is needed, so you can test it with the links you already have.