What is Affiliate programs?
Affiliate programs / affiliate marketing, also called associate programs, are one of the way to make money online in wich a website/blog ownwer will get payment for every visitor, subscriber, customer, click the text link or banner and sale that provided through his efforts .There are some term you should know about the affiliate program :
1. Affiliate markerter is a person or a website/blog ownwer who join into affiliate program
2. Merchant is parties who sell product or services. Its can be individual or big companies.
3. An affiliate network is a third party as mediators between affiliate markerter and merchant
How Many Types Of Affiliate Programs ?
There are five basic types of affiliate program payment arrangements:
1. Pay-per-sale (also called cost-per-sale): In this arrangement, the merchant site pays an affiliate when the affiliate sends them a customer who purchases something. Some merchant Web sites, like Amazon.com, pay the affiliate a percentage of the sale and others pay a fixed amount per sale.
2. Pay-per-click (cost-per-click): In these programs, the merchant site pays the affiliate based on the number of visitors who click on the link to come to the merchant's site. They don't have to buy anything, and it doesn't matter to the affiliate what a visitor does once he gets to the merchant's site.
3. Pay-per-lead (cost-per-lead): Companies with these programs pay their affiliates based on the number of visitors they refer who sign up as leads. This simply means the visitor fills out some requested information at the merchant site, which the merchant site may use as a sales lead or sell to another company as a sales lead.
4. Two-tier programs: These affiliate programs have a structure similar to multilevel marketing organizations (also known as "network marketing").In addition to receiving commissions based on sales, clicks or leads stemming from their own site, affiliates in these programs also receive a commission based on the activity of affiliate sites they refer to the merchant site.
5. Residual Programs: Affiliates in these programs can keep making money off a visitor they send to the site if the visitor continues to purchase goods or services from the merchant site. Many online merchants who receive regular payments from their customers (such as monthly service fees) run this sort of affiliate program.
Additionally, there are a few pay-per-impression affiliate programs. Companies running these programs, also called pay-per-view programs, pay affiliates based only on the number of visitors who see their banner ad.
How to make money with affiliate program ?
Usually a affiliate markerter will go to an affiliate network site like clickbank, paydotcom, Commission Junction, etc. After that he will fill out an online application to become a member. The application will ask about some personal information (name, address, payment method) and information on your site (URL, name, and description of content) and you will have agree to a service agreement. Most affiliate networks are completely free to join the affiliate program.
If the affiliate network approves your application, you can begin picking affiliate programs that you are interest. Once you've chosen some affiliate programs, the online merchants running these programs Usually will have the opportunity to review your site. If they approve you, the affiliate network will walk you through posting the appropriate links process such as barnner or text link, which come directly from the network's site. The Affiliate markerter can use blog/ website or search enggine's advertising like Adwords and whatever ways to promotion merchan's product.
as notice, there is some affiliate network is no need approval from a merchant to promotion their product. so, you can make money with easy and fast. for example : clickbank and paydotcom.
The affiliate network will also establish payment arrangements with you. Because the amount of money you earn per action can be extremely small, most affiliate networks have a set minimum payout amount. This means you won't receive a check until the total money owed you reaches a certain amount. After you have set up all this and the affiliate network has explained its system to you, you can get back to work on your Web site's content and wait for your money to come in.
Ok! You have learn about affiliate program. In addition, here are the most popular affiliate network site you should try to make money online :
1. Commission Junction (www.cj.com)
2. ClickBank (www.clickbank.com)
3. LinkShare (www.linkshare.com)
4. Amazon (www.amazon.com)
5. Shareasale (www.shareasale.com)
6. Paydotcom