What Is An affiliate?

By Jose Garces


An affiliate is a person that promotes someone else's products on their own website or email newsletters in exchange for a Commission for purchases that were made through your referrals (the visitors you send to the vendor's website).

The Affiliate does not sell the products or services as a distributor or vendor. It simply earns money promoting by putting some sort of advertisement on their website or blog, evaluations of the product, banners, etc. These advertising links to the vendor's website is all you need to start generating income online. You don't have to pick up your order, charge it, dispatch the product or provide post-sale assistance.

How does affiliate program work?

Affiliates (people interested in promoting vendor's products) can register free of charge in various affiliate products directories such as Click Bank.

Once registered user are provided with the advertising material: written, banners, ads, etc. of products then all you have to do is copying and pasting the given code into your own website to do the promotion.

All these advertising materials have a link that leads to the vendor's website. This link also includes the code of the member who has placed the advertisement or banner. For example: www.somewebsiteaddress.com/productX.php?idaffiliate=123.

When someone clicks on the link or the banner advertising as the affiliate on the Web site, it comes to the vendor site and is recorded by means of a cookie as recommended in the affiliate X (in this case the affiliate 123).

A cookie is a file that is stored in the computer of the visitor and includes information specific to a particular web site. When we visited a web site, your browser looks if there are any saved cookies on the client's computer that corresponds to this site and if it exists, passes the information contained in the website. Cookies are typically used to save preferences or peculiarities of the user as the language they prefer, etc.

Therefore, if a visitor landed on a vendor's website a cookie with the affiliate id will be saved. Any future visits to the vendor's website will firstly check for a local cookie and check if an affiliate id is stored or saved. If the potential buyer ends up buying the product then the corresponded affiliate will earn the commission. This is how the affiliate earns money.

Where can you register?

If you are interested in making money as an affiliate and promote someone's products earning additional income then you have various options but perhaps the most popular out there are Amazon and Clickbank affiliate programs.




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