A Glossary of Affiliate Marketing Terms

Affiliates: Publisher like you and me who are using affiliate program links to
promote and make the sale.


◉ Affiliate marketplace: There are many marketplaces like ShareASale, CJ (Commission Junction), Clickbank, which works as central database for affiliate programs in different niche.


◉ Affiliate software: Software's used by companies to create an affiliate program for their product. Ex: iDevaffiliate.


◉ Affiliate link: Special tracking link offered by your affiliate program to track the progress of your affiliate promotion.


◉ Affiliate ID: This is Similar to Affiliate link, but, in this case, many affiliate programs offer a unique ID, which you can add to any page of the product site with “XYZ” affiliate ID.


◉ Payment mode: Different affiliate program offers a different method of payment. For ex: Cheque, Wire transfer, PayPal and many more.


◉ Affiliate Manager: Many companies have dedicated affiliate manager to help publishers and make them earn more and give them optimization tips.


◉ Commission percentage/amount: The amount or percentage of sales amount you will be getting after every sale happened via your affiliate link.


◉ 2 Tier affiliate marketing: This is a great way of making money from an affiliate program. In this, you recommend others to join affiliate programs, and you will get a commission out of it, when sub-affiliate make sales. More like MLM (Multi-level) marketing. Also popularly known as Sub-affiliate Commission.


◉ Landing pages: A unique product sales or demo page to increase the sales. Most of the programs that you will be promoting, they have many landing pages, and you can run A/B testing to see which converts more for you.

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