Affiliate Marketing

Affiliate Marketing is promoting someone elses product and earning comission on that.Various companies time to time do various sales or brand promotion on internet. Now internet is a diversified field with no single mode of promotion.It is here opportunity comes to common people to promote the product of these companies.People do so are termed as Affiliate/ Publisher and the companies are termed as Merchants or Advertisers. Affiliate promotes Merchant's products and earn performance based incentives.

Between Affiliats and Merchants There is Affiliate Program Provider (APP) who keeps all the track. They do tracking, reporting, takes the payment from the merchants and pay to affiliates.

One wants to be an affiliate has to be registered with APP first. APPs do not charge anything for registration.After registration is complete Affiliate can get his promotion campaign links (text or banner) from his APP.Now affiliates can promote these links through various means like Google Adword, Website, Search Engine, Blog, Forum, e-mail etc. When some visitor on the net clicks that link, the visitor reaches to some specific webpage of the Merchant and if the visitors sign up or puchase something on that site Affiliates get the comission.

Each APP has its own mode of operation.One can have the details by visiting their sites. Most of them have very good tutorials also, to teach one the registration as well as working procedure.

Ther are several APPs such as commission junction (cj), Click Bank, Clix Galore, Pay Dot Com, Linkshare, Affiliate Curry etc. Seearching in their names will take one to their sites.