Affiliate marketing 101
Written by Chad Cook   
Friday, 29 September 2006
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 total for either a click
through from your website, or a set amount for
visitors signing up, or even a portion of a
purchase made by visitors as a outcome of being
referred from your website.

Even if visitors don't make a purchase immediately,
almost all programs propose cookie duration, normally
consisting of 30 - 90 days. What this means, is
that as long as the visitors possess the cookie in
their cache, you'll still recieve a gain from
the sale.

The biggest amount of time in maintaining your
site will be inquiring and implementing affiliations
with various companies. Even though there's a lot
of money in affiliate marketing, you will have to take
the time to check for the best programs.

One item that you may not be cheery with, is the
idea of different companies banners littering your
website. If you use too many banners or links on
any web page, it can confuse and help to pester
your visitors. More than one element on
a web folio 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 generally provide you with a
personalized link or code. It's very important
that you implement this code into your leaf
properly, or you may be sending visitors to the
company without recieving any profit.

A majority of snippets in the code will contain
a one of a kind user ID, which the company uses to
distinguish which location sent traffic.