Making Money from Affiliate Programs


Affiliate Marketing-Highly Cost effective, Highly Efficient

The Internet has fast become an efficient and trusted way for companies to market and sell their product. One of the reasons for this has been the rise of “Affiliated Marketing” - which is when a website directs traffic to itself through adverts on other (usually related) websites. Affiliated marketing either pays the affiliate through a pay-per-click program (the affiliate receives money every time an advert is clicked) or a pay-per-sale program (the affiliate receives commission every time a posted advert on their site generates an actual sale or subscription.) Generally, the pay-per-sale program (also called cost-per-sale, or CPS) is the tried and trusted form of affiliate marketing used.

Affiliate marketing began just four years after the world wide web was launched, originally popularized by well known companies such as CDNOW or Amazon.com. Google’s Adsense is also a very well known type of affiliated marketing, but is not really considered as true affiliate marketing as the adverts usually centers around the theme of the website they are displayed (known more as contextual advertising.) Google does not also directly sell a specific product, but generates money in other ways.

Affiliate marketing is highly cost-effective, and in effect costs both the advertiser and the affiliate nothing, while having the potential of bringing in a very large form of income for both parties. While pay per click (or cost-per-click) mentioned above can present a risk to the advertiser, the cost-per-sale (CPS) system has very little or no risk at all for both parties, and is therefore preferred.

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2010-09-06

2010-09-06

iBio and Fraunhofer Execute Business Development and Marketing Agreement with ... - MarketWatch (press release)

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Commission Junction Announces CJYou Award Finalists - MarketWatch (press release)

2010-09-02
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DG FastChannel Executive, Karen Dealy, Joins YANGAROO - MarketWatch (press release)

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Online Affiliate Specialist/ Manager - Mashable (blog)

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ZERO COST COMMISSIONS! - Zimonet

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