Affiliate Marketing Basics For Dummies
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You have a good website, perhaps about a niche area that you specialize in or about a passionate hobby of yours.Your readers love your articles. Your homepage is widely book marked and your newsletter has membership in thousands. Great!
Have you monetized your traffic? Have you signed up for Affiliate Programs?
"Affiliate programs? Hmm, What are those?" A good friend of mine who is passionate about cameras and has a blog with good readership exclaimed. What a waste of valuable traffic!
What is Affiliate Program? - A Definition
Affiliate program is a partnership between the merchants such as Amazon, eBay, Best Buy, Circuit City etc. and you, the publisher who places links to these merchant sites strategically on your websites and drive additional traffic to the merchant websites.
Terminology
Pay Per Click: Merchant offers money every time a visitor sent from your website visits merchant's website.
Pay Per Sale: Merchant offers money every time a visitor sent from your website actually buys the product offered by the merchant.
Pay Per Lead: Merchant offers money every time a visitor sent from your site provides some information to the merchant like his/her email id or fills a form. Essentially, Merchant is getting leads to sell his stuff.
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