amy — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 14:50:31 +0000

thanks for the replies...

webhostinguk — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 06:01:22 +0000

amy wrote: Can anyone please tell me what is affiliate online marketing is.. Thanks.

Affiliate marketing is a system of selling products or services in context over the Internet that allows online merchants to promote their products within the content of tens of thousands of Web sites. Affiliate marketing allows merchants to pay their affiliates based on performance.

Your affiliates help in promoting your product by placing a link of your website wherever they think can generate sales.

topdome — Sun, 02 Apr 2006 20:49:13 +0000

Affiliate Marketing is a popular method of promoting web businesses in which an affiliate is rewarded for every visitor, subscriber and/or customer provided through his efforts. It is a modern variation of the practice of paying finder's-fees for the introduction of new clients to a business. Compensation may be made based on a certain value for each visit (Pay per click), registrant (Pay per lead), or a commission for each customer or sale (Pay per Sale), or any combination.

The most attractive aspect of affiliate marketing, from the merchant's viewpoint, is that with this pay for performance model, no payment is due to an affiliate until results are realized.

Some e-commerce sites run their own affiliate programs while other e-commerce vendors use third party services provided by intermediaries to track traffic or sales that are referred from affiliates. Some businesses owe much of their growth and success to this marketing technique, although research has shown in general the increase to be approximately 15-20% of online revenue.

VIconqueror — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 22:47:00 +0000

To be an affiliate means you are taking a commission for selling someone else's product/service. It can mean posting their codes on your site, but not necessarily.
Most affiliate programs provide URLs, banner codes & text codes for the affiliates to use for promoting.

Always read their FAQ/Terms of Service.

steve40 — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:47:08 +0000

I don't know; unless it means you run adds all over your web page, for some jerk. In exchange for free web space?.