What is an Affiliate Program and How Does it Work?

What is an Affiliate Program and How Does it Work?

What is an Affiliate Program?

Affiliate programs, also known as associate programs, are agreements in which an online merchant Web site pays an affiliate commission for sending them traffic. Affiliate Web sites post links to the merchant's site and are compensated according to a set of rules. This agreement is usually based on the number of visitors the affiliate sends to the merchant's website, or on the number of visitors who buy something or take some other action

Types of Affiliate Sites; Shopping Coupon or Deals Content Blog/Forms Loyalty or Rewards

3 Parties in Affiliate Program Transaction: The Customer The Affiliate Site The Merchant Site

Examples of Affiliate Network ClickBank Shareasale JvZoo Bluehost Affiliate Program Commission Junction Impact Radius

How Does it Work?

Affiliate obtains Affiliate Network's Merchant creative and uploads it to their website.

The customer goes to the Affiliate site and clicks on the Merchant banner.

A cookie is placed on the browser of the consumer that identifies the merchant, affiliate, and link.

The customer is directed to the merchant's website.

In the referring URL, the Merchant captures the Affiliate ID. Consumer buys something from the merchant.

Affiliate Network receives cookie information.

Affiliate Network receives a sales file from the merchant that includes the Affiliate ID.

Top Reasons to Become Affiliate Marketer: Cost effective Global Market You Don`t Have to Own Product No Fees No Financial Capital Work from home

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