subject: What is affiliate marketing? [print this page] What is affiliate marketing? What is affiliate marketing?
Affiliate marketing is a hot method of promoting network businesses in which the business associate (affiliate) is paid back for every last visitor, subscriber and / or client provided through any of its advertising efforts. It is a popular variation of the practice of paying fees for the introduction of new clients in jobs. The fee can be made on the basis of certain value for every visit (pay per click), registration (pay-per-lead), or a commission for every last client or sale (Pay-Per-Sale). The most attractive aspect of affiliate marketing from the perspective of a business owner, is that there is no payment until they had accomplished some tangible results. Several shop web sites, like Amazon.com launched their own affiliate program, while at other e-commerce vendors use the services provided by third parties by an intermediary such as ClickBank.com, CommissionJunction.com and LinkShare.com which monitors dealings or Sales are made through associates. Some businesses owe much of their development and success to this marketing technique.
Affiliate marketing overlaps with other net marketing methods to some extent, because affiliates often use regular promoting methods. Those methods include organic search engine optimization, paid search engine marketing, e-mail marketing, advertising banners and the like. On the other hand, Affiliates sometimes use less orthodox techniques like publishing reviews of products or services offered by the business owner.
In affiliate marketing you get paid for selling products sold through an associate link (link with a special identification that is accompanied by an associate program) you get when joining the affiliate program. Link put on your blog, forum, website, or something else. Your income is directly linked to how well they sell goods or services you sell and the size of the fee determined by the owner of the goods or services. So it is extremely important to carefully consider the choice of partners whose goods you sell.
