Affiliate Marketing 101

Affiliate Marketing 101

 Affiliate marketing - programs are a great way to get income for your website, and a great introduction to e-commerce.  - The more people that drop by your website, the - great your chance will be at creating an excellent income. 

Affiliate marketing programs are - where a company offers to pay you a set amount for either a click through from your website, or a set amount for visitors signing up, or - even a percentage of a purchase made by visitors - as a result of being referred from your website. 

Even if visitors don't - make a purchase immediately, almost all programs offer cookie duration, normally consisting of 30 - 90 days.  What - this means, is that as long - as the visitors have the cookie in their cache, you'll still recieve a profit from the sale.  

The biggest amount of - time in maintaining your site will be searching and - implementing affiliations with various companies.  Even though there's a lot of money in affiliate marketing, you have to - take the time to search for the best programs. 

One thing that you may not - be happy with, is the idea of other companies banners littering your website.  If you use too - many banners or links on any web page, it can - confuse and help to irritate your visitors.  More than one animated element on a web page can be very distracting - as well. Affiliate tracking can also be a problem.  

Once you have applied to - become an affiliate for a company, they'll usually supply you with a personalized link or code.  It's very - important that you implement this - code into your page correctly, or you may be sending visitors to the company without recieving any profit. 

A majority of - snippets in the code will contain a unique user ID, which the company uses to distinguish which site - sent traffic.