Affiliate marketing is one of the oldest form of marketing, where you refer someone to any online product. When a person buys the product based on your recommendation; you will get a commission out of the sale amount. This commission amount varies from $1 to $10000, depending on what product you are promoting and recommending.
The most common question is: How companies track the record of who is sending the traffic and who is making sales. The simple answer is tracking URL, which is a unique link given to you by the affiliate company or the product company. This unique tracking link is used to keep a track of all the traffic and sales you are making via your Website or other promotion techniques.
Tip: Many old fashioned Affiliate programs, let a buyer add the Email or referral details, which is also accounted for affiliate sales, but certainly not the best way to track progress.
So, in simple words:
Many online companies which sales product like Shoes, Webhosting space or any online service offers an affiliate program. You can go ahead and sign up for their affiliate program (It’s free to join) and get your unique tracking link. Now, whenever you are writing about the product, you can simply use special tracking affiliate link to recommend the company’s site, and if your readers buy anything, you will get a commission out of it.
Note: I have shared tricks to find these affiliate programs later in this eBook. Every affiliate programs have their set of Terms of Standards (TOS), for example, many of them offer 60 days cookie period, that means, if a visitor uses your special affiliate link to land on sales page of the site and instead of buying today, he buys the product within next 60 days on the same laptop, you will be earning the affiliate commission.
Another interesting thing to know is: You will get paid for the other products purchases. For example, if your reader go to Amazon.com using your affiliate link & he purchases some other product which you haven’t recommended, you will still get commission out of it. This is one major reason, that makes affiliate marketing so lucrative & beneficial.
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