Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Affiliate Marketing

Affiliate marketing has become an important component of internet marketing strategies because of the tremendous growth experienced by the affiliate marketing sector in the recent years. In a nutshel, affiliate marketing is a commission-based sales system unique to the internet where easy online affiliation with merchants results in the creation of ongoing sources of revenue for website owners.


The uniqueness of affiliate marketing system resides in its capacity to benefit the big and medium merchants/manufacturers on one hand, and the largest number of online businesses and website owners who are NOT merchants or producers, on the other. This interaction takes place through a sophisticated networking system that brings together web publishers and merchants where a publisher may acquire affiliate product information to refer customers from their website, and receive commission when a sale happens or another agreed objective is achieved.


Affiliate marketing includes PPC or PayPerClick but is not limited to it.


A web publisher may acquire and display advertisements of their affiliates in the form of text links, banners, widgets, email links, coupons and other 'creatives'. These images and links to affiliate products and landing pages are then offered to the publisher’s own clients and visitors. As well, a web publisher can join for FREE one or all of the affiliate marketing networks where participation in time-efficient and cost-effective systems of affiliation will allow even a small web publisher to sell products created by the industry leaders.


Affiliate marketing is created by the interaction of the Merchants (advertisers, manufacturers or producers of a product or service), the Publishers (website owners willing to display advertiser’s product/service links on their web pages), the Networks (programs or systems of affiliate marketing that allow the affiliation process to take place), and the Customers (online buyers, visitors, consumers, clients).



At this time, there are two major affiliate networks, Commission Junction and Linkshare, and both offer supportive and easy to use affiliate marketing systems. However, for starters, I will recommend Linkshare. Whether you are a web publisher or an advertiser, click the following text or banner link to join Linkshare affiliate marketing network and see if it works for you. Join for free:
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Also view: How To Join Affiliate Marketing Network: Website Owners/Bloggers

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1 comment:

  1. Nice post about affiliate marketing! It is very unique but extremely easy approach to make money from home. I also have been using PPC Advertising technique to promote my affiliate marketing blog and must admit that the traffic increases rapidly. I am getting very nice revenue from this method.

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