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If
you have a website with some traffic, you can make money by having links to merchants'
online shops on your site.
If someone goes through your links into the
shop of the merchant, and buys something, you earn commission from the sale, between
5% and 40% depending on type of merchant.
Some merchants also pay for each
click or each lead. A lead is a new visitor to the shop that asks for more information
or prize offers.
People or companies having these links on their web-sites,
are called affiliates, and the links are called affiliate links. The administrative
infrastructure by the merchant that the affiliate register into, in order to get
the linking code, is called an affiliate program.
To register into an affiliate
program is usually free, and through the program you get freely all you need to
make the linking code, to monitor the traffic through your links, and to see what
commission you have earned.
An affiliate program is not a MLM program,
since the affiliates only earn from sales, leads or clicks.
However, in
many programs you can recruit other affiliates and earn some commission from the
sales made by the recruited affiliates too.
There are also common networks
operated by third-part companies where several merchants use a common software
and administrative infrastructure to recruit affiliates and monitor the traffic
from affiliates. These are called affiliate networks. Both the merchants and potetial
affilliates register into the network, and the affiliates can find links to the
online shops of hundreds of merchants to use at their web-site. Examples of affiliate
networks are Commission Junction and Clixgalore.
From my experience, the
best affiliate programs are for merchants selling althernative health items or
items for erotic improvements. I also have good experience with programs in the
fields skincare, cosmetics and hobby.
What will work best for you, will
however depend upon the kind of traffic you have, and the interests of people
visiting your site.
Knut Holt Knut
Holt is a freelands IT consultant that also earn from affiliate links at his websites.
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