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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