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Affiliate Programs

Affiliate programs are also known as associate, reseller, or referral programs. They are revenue sharing programs between companies (the merchant) and individuals (the affiliate). An Affiliate can be likened to an independent contractor.

As an affiliate marketer, you are basically self-employed and market the products and/or services of another company. You are then paid a commission by the company they represent for referring customers to the company's website. Put simply, it allows merchants to extend their marketing reach by advertising on web sites other than their own. The web site owner, or Affiliate, gets paid a percentage based on the sale value.

If you have a service that you provide, you could maximise revenues by setting up your own affiliate program and letting the power of the internet expand your market place.

When joining an internet affiliate program there are certain things you need to do to maximise your chances of success.

Firstly, make sure the links and adverts you carry fit the theme of your site. Don't just have a bunch of links and banners on your site and nothing else. Content is King! You need to have good content so your visitors will use your site as a valuable resource. To maximise your earning potential, try to only promote programs that are consistent with the theme of your web site.

Make sure that the affiliate programs you join are making your efforts worthwhile. Join those that give you a high payout with at least 25-30% commission for each sale. Your product should be something that you would feel comfortable purchasing and recommending to your visitors.

If you're serious and treat this like a business and stick at it, you will develop an income. Earning money online is possible but not easy. The difference between those that do and those that don't is that the successful sites learn, adapt and persevere.

The key to success with affiliate marketing is to choose the right program. Whilst it might be tempting to go for the program that pays the highest commissions, you have to be certain that the service you're promoting is of genuine interest to the kind of people that are visiting your site, or the people that you are attracting by advertising. See Affiliate Networks for those I recommend.

The key value to look for when comparing rates is the EPC (Earnings Per Click). This gives you a value of what a program has paid out, on average, per hundred clicks received and is a useful guide to your earnings potential versus what you can realistically spend in marketing.

Three Basic Ways For How You Can Make Money With Affiliate Programs:

1. You can sign up for an affiliate program and then advertise it on Google AdWords. This is the quickest way to get visibility and is a great way to start making money on a search engine because it is so quick to set up. Read more: Google Adwords Guide.

2. The second way that you can make money is to look for a profitable affiliate program and then build a web site around that area. You can then get that website to the top of the search engine and get free visitors to the website.

3. The third method is going to take the most time but could offer more long term potential. Here you identify an area that you are interested in, build the site, develop an opt-in subscriber list and look for affiliate programs that fit into that theme.

More Affiliate Programs:

Dental Plan Affiliate Program
You can earn $40 per sale with the Dental Affiliate Program from DentalPlans.com...
Whichever way you decide to go, take your time, read up on the industry and make sure you pick the right affiliate programs for your site.

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