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Affiliate Marketing 101
by Media One
Affiliate marketing programs are a great way to get income for your
website, and a great introduction to e-commerce. The more people that drop
by your website, the great your chance will be at creating an excellent
income.
Affiliate marketing programs are where a company offers to pay you a set
amount for either a click through from your website, or a set amount for
visitors signing up, or even a percentage of a purchase made by visitors as
a result of being referred from your website.
Even if visitors don't make a purchase immediately, almost all programs
offer cookie duration, normally consisting of 30 - 90 days. What this means,
is that as long as the visitors have the cookie in their cache, you'll still
receive a profit from the sale.
The biggest amount of time in maintaining your site will be searching and
implementing affiliations with various companies. Even though there's a lot
of money in affiliate marketing, you have to take the time to search for the
best programs.
One thing that you may not be happy with, is the idea of other companies
banners littering your website. If you use too many banners or links on any
web page, it can confuse and help to irritate your visitors. More than one
animated element on a web page can be very distracting as well.
Affiliate tracking can also be a problem. Once you have applied to become
an affiliate for a company, they'll usually supply you with a personalized
link or code. It's very important that you implement this code into your
page correctly, or you may be sending visitors to the company without
receiving any profit.
A majority of snippets in the code will contain a unique user ID, which
the company uses to distinguish which site sent traffic.
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