HOW AFFLIATE MARKET WORKS

History of Affiliate Marketing

       Affiliate marketing's origins date back to the early days of the Internet, but it wasn't until the late 1990s that people started talking about "affiliate marketing."

 

        The first affiliate program was launched in 1996: Amazon's Associates Program. It was designed to give Amazon customers an additional way to make money by referring others to purchase goods on Amazon.

 

·        Since then, affiliate marketing has grown into a multi-billion-dollar industry and continues to grow as more people are getting involved in affiliate marketing every day.

 

Understanding Affiliate Marketing

 

Affiliate marketing is a performance-based marketing model in which a business rewards one or more affiliates for each visitor or customer brought by the affiliate's own efforts. Affiliates are usually individuals or businesses that receive commissions from selling a company’s product online, but they can also be paid with only free products and services. Affiliate marketers often use paid advertising to drive traffic to their websites, where they earn commission from sales of the company's products or services.

 

There are many different kinds of affiliate programs available: some pay on a cost per sale (CPS) basis (you get paid for each item sold), some on cost per action (CPA) basis (you get paid when your customers complete an action such as signup or purchase), and others offer both options depending on their program structure and rules.

 

Types of Affiliate Programs

 

1-CPC: cost per click 2 CPA: cost per action  3-CPM: cost per thousand impressions   4-CPL: cost per lead 5-CPO: cost per order 6-CPS: cost per sale 7- CPV: cost per view

 

Affiliate marketing programs are available in a variety of models and formats. These include:

 

 

·        CPC – Cost per click — the advertiser pays each time the affiliate's ad is clicked on

 

·        CPA – Cost per action — the advertiser pays when a specific goal (like making a purchase) is achieved by their end customer as a result of clicking your link.

 

·        CPM – Cost per thousand impressions (thousands of views) — The advertiser pays when your link is displayed 1,000 times on their site.

 

·        CPL – Cost per lead — The advertiser will pay you for every lead that results from your visitors being directed to them by you through an affiliate program. A lead can be anything that leads to an interaction with your merchant's business including generating interest for their product or service, requesting more information about it, etc.

 

How to Choose an Affiliate Program

 

Choosing an affiliate program can be difficult and intimidating, but it's not impossible! To start, you should choose a product that you are passionate about. This way, you'll be more likely to do your best work promoting the program and helping others find success with it.

 

Then, pick a product that you're familiar with as well. If there's something about the company or their products that makes them stand out from the competition, let everyone know! Be sure to let people know all of the great things about this particular affiliate program so they can see how it could benefit them personally or professionally.

 

Finally (and this might seem obvious), only choose affiliate programs with good cookies periods. This is when merchants reward affiliates for each sale made through their links rather than just once per visit like many less reputable companies do.*

 

The Most Popular Affiliate Program Networks

 

        i.            Amazon Associates

 

      ii.            ShareASale

 

    iii.            CJ Affiliate by Conversant

 

   iv.            Rakuten

 

     v.            FlexOffers

 

   vi.            Awin

 

 vii.            eBay Partner Network (API)

 

viii.            Amazon Associates

 

    ix.            ShareASale

 

      x.            CJ Affiliate by Conversant

 

    xi.            Rakuten

 

  xii.            FlexOffers

 

xiii.            Awin

 

xiv.            eBay Partner Network (API)

 

list of the most popular affiliate program networks

 

Click bank   Shopify  eBay Pepper jam Refersion

 

How to Start an Affiliate Site in 5 Simple Steps

 

find a niche  choose an affiliate program  build a website with attractive content    start marketing your website

 

What is a Cookie Period?

 

A cookie period is the amount of time that a cookie remains on a user's computer after they click on an affiliate link. The purpose of cookies is to track how many sales were made, as well as which sales were made by affiliates. Affiliate marketers sometimes use cookies to track clicks, leads, and other activity after a user clicks an affiliate link.

 

If you don't buy right away, the cookie will remain on your computer even if you close your browser window or quit out of your browser entirely. When you return later, it will still be there so that the site knows who you are when making purchases or signing up for free trials.

 

Common Terms Used in Affiliate Marketing

 

·        Affiliate: An individual or business that promotes a product or service in exchange for compensation.

 

·        Affiliate Network: A company that coordinates individuals and businesses to sell products or services through their own websites, marketing materials and social media presence.

 

·        Affiliate Program: The marketing strategy of using affiliates to promote an advertiser’s product or service on a commission basis.

 

·        Advertiser: A person or entity that pays an affiliate a commission for each customer referred by the affiliate website link.

 

·        Affiliate Tracking Link: A unique code added to the advertiser’s landing page URL so it can track how many sales are made as a result of each referral link created by an affiliate website owner during their promotional campaign (usually via social media).

 

·        Affiliate Website Owner (aka “Publisher”): The owner of an established website who has registered with an affiliated network as part of its program where they can receive commissions from visitors who purchase products/services from advertisers found through their site links (i.e., Amazon Associates). If you want more information about this topic, visit our blog post about building your first profitable affiliate website!

 

·        How to Estimate Your Earning Potential as an Affiliate Marketer

 

·        It's time to learn more about affiliate marketing.

 

·        It's time to learn more about affiliate marketing.

 

·        Affiliate marketing is a great way to make money with your website or blog. You earn commissions from products that you recommend and sell on your website or blog, without having to create those products yourself. You simply choose the products and point your visitors toward them. This is called “affiliate marketing” because you are being compensated for sending traffic (affiliates) to another company's site, who pays you for selling their product(s).

 

·        The good news is that it doesn't take much tech knowledge or skill to start doing affiliate marketing – just some basic understanding of how it works will allow you start making money right away!