Factor #1: Visitors / Traffic In order to make money from affiliate marketing, you need to convert a visitor to your site to a paying customer for your merchant partner(s). Obviously, the more visitors you have (i.e., the greater the [...]
Affiliates receive credit for a conversion by placing a cookie on the computer of visitors they send to a merchant site, allowing the network to attribute sales to specific partners. Many merchants will give credit for a sale to an [...]
The commission is generally the percentage of a sale that is paid to the affiliate for referring a customer. The commission percentage can range from the low single digits to more than 50%. (E-products generally have the highest commissions since [...]
Affiliate marketing commission arrangements generally fall into one of the following categories categories: CPA marketing Running an affiliate program using a Cost-per-Acquisition or CPA marketing model guarantees a profitable return on marketing investment, since commission is only paid to publishers [...]
The final component that completes the affiliate relationship triangle is the consumer. The consumer is the one who actually sees the ad and then acts upon it. They will be taken from the publisher’s website to the advertiser’s to complete [...]
An affiliate network is a combination of various affiliate programs grouped together around a common theme or interest and promoted to potential affiliates who are already providing websites that serve those interests. For a merchant, joining an existing affiliate network [...]
