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affiliate marketing

Affiliate marketing is a business relationship with a merchant or other service provider who allows you to link to that business. When a visitor clicks on the link at your site and subsequently makes a purchase from the merchant, you receive a commission based on the amount of the sale, a referral fee or a pay-for-click fee.

The Merchant, network, Publisher (‘the Affiliate’) and the Customer plays the major role in affiliate marketing.

Affiliate marketing overlaps with other Internet marketing methods to some degree, because affiliates often use regular advertising methods. Those methods include organic SEO, paid SEM, e-mail marketing.

The first step in affiliate marketing is creating traffic to a merchant’s site. If you are a affiliate, you need to create traffic for merchant site. The merchant may be selling a product say DVDs or e books, or they may be trying to sign on clients. The merchant pays you a commission once the visitor has completed the desired action. That is, bought a product or completed a registration form.

The merchant knows that the visitor is from you because you link to the merchant’s site through a special affiliate link. Other affiliates will have their own special affiliate link which is different from yours.

Although different affiliate marketers for the same product have different, unique affiliate links, all these links point to the same website, the merchant’s website.

The affiliate aims simply to drive as much targeted traffic as possible to his/her own unique affiliate link. Once your site is up and running, you can continue to earn money from it. This is called passive income. It is passive because after the initial effort of researching your chosen market, building a website and setting up your campaign, you can continue to earn from this with very minimal day to day input in your campaign.

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