Affiliate Program: the Key to Successful Affiliate Marketing
The e-business is very much popular today. This started when the internet was introduced in the world and the way we look at business was never the same. It opened a lot of doors and a lot of Pandora’s box as well. I am not going to paint you a rosy picture، there is as much negative as there are positive in the internet.
There are many strategies and ways for businesses to flourish in the internet. One is the affiliate marketing. Affiliate marketing is a way of allowing website to earn an income from their website by displaying the adverts، links to banners of a merchant or by carrying contextual advertising.
Affiliate marketing is a popular method of promoting e- businesses in which an affiliate is rewarded for every visitor، subscriber or costumer provided through his efforts. The compensation may be made based on a certain value for each visit or pay-per-click، registrant or pay-per-lead and commission for each costumer or sale or pay-per-sale.
In affiliate marketing، an affiliate program is necessary. Affiliate program is a partnership with an online merchant who compensates any sales that is being sent by a merchant via links on the site.
Affiliate programs are also arrangements in which an online merchant web site pays affiliate web sites a commission to send them traffic. These affiliate web sites posts links to the merchant site and are paid according to a particular agreement.
The agreement is usually based on the number of people the affiliate sends to the merchant’s site، or the number of people they send who actually buy something or perform some other action.
Some arrangements pay according to the number of people who visit the page containing their merchant site’s banner advertisement. Basically، it is a link on an affiliate site brings the merchant site traffic or money
