Understanding Affiliate Programs

Written by S. Housley


Affiliate programs are commonly misunderstood, in order to understand affiliate programs lets start with terminology. For clarification purposes, an affiliate is defined as any "referrer" or website that promotes a product in an effort to earn revenue. A merchant is defined as someone who owns a product and is sharing revenues with an affiliate based onrepparttar affiliate's performance. Affiliate programs can drive targeted traffic to your website.

There are 3 basic affiliate programs, though onlyrepparttar 102303 first two are commonly used.

Pay Per Click - this is when an affiliate is compensated for sending traffic torepparttar 102304 merchant. (AdSense is an example of PPC affiliate program)

Pay Per Sale - this is whenrepparttar 102305 affiliate is compensated byrepparttar 102306 merchant ifrepparttar 102307 referral generates a sale or purchase.

Pay Per Lead - this is whenrepparttar 102308 merchant agrees to pay for a qualified (or sometimes unqualified lead), which is very uncommon because it is subjective and up torepparttar 102309 merchant.

Affiliate websites tend to provide information, entertainment, and content services to their customers. The online merchants sell products, goods and services online. These are programs permitting affiliates to earn money based onrepparttar 102310 visitors to your site who click through to another's website. Some pay a token amount forrepparttar 102311 click through and others provide a percentage of sales when a visitor "clicks through" to your site and buys a product or service onrepparttar 102312 other party's site. This could represent a value added service to your visitors.

Affiliate programs allow you to pay and track incentives from other websites that send web surfers, leads or paying customers to your website. Commissions based on purchases made by traffic sent fromrepparttar 102313 referring website can be paid. Besides a commission, an affiliate can receive a flat fee, or other incentives for all valid transactions it refers that generate a sale or lead.

Be careful thatrepparttar 102314 affiliate's web page is not cluttered with banner ads that may crowd out your link, or that be annoying to customers. Affiliate programs enable affiliates to leverage their traffic and customer base in order to profit from e-commerce while merchants benefit from increased exposure and sales.

Generate More Sales in ANY Affiliate Program – Part One

Written by Gillian Tarawhiti


It is my opinion thatrepparttar best AFFILIATE PROGRAM ever…is stillrepparttar 102302 AFFILIATE PROGRAM YOU own.

BUT…

For those who are content in promoting other peoples programs…I will share with you a few of my strategies for FREE!

But before I do that, let’s see why most affiliates FAIL in just about any given affiliate program.

Like food products, affiliates have a ‘use by date’ or ‘expiry date’. An average affiliate will expire 30 days after commencing …30 days or less to see ifrepparttar 102303 program is any good and then they move on torepparttar 102304 next affiliate program ofrepparttar 102305 month.

Ifrepparttar 102306 affiliate doesn’t see a return on there investment inrepparttar 102307 first two weeks then they will not stay around.

DON’T BECOME A ‘30 DAY WONDER’.

It is time to make an informed decision (in choosing your affiliate program) and sticking with it. If you are one of those netpreneurs who changes affiliate programs often, and not making money from it, you now know why it isn’t working.

So before you go any further, make an informed decision (research) onrepparttar 102308 program you want to promote.

Now back to those STRATEGIES – TWO STRATEGIES TO BE EXACT.

Strategy One

Very simple and straight forward, KNOW YOUR PRODUCT!

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