Monday, July 16, 2007

Affiliate Marketing

Affiliate marketing programs are a great way to get income for your website, and a great introduction to e-commerce. Affiliate marketing programs are where a company offers to pay you a set amount for either a click through from your website, or a set amount for visitors signing up, or even a percentage of a purchase made by visitors as a result of being referred from your website.



Even if visitors don't make a purchase immediately, almost all programs offer cookie duration, normally consisting of 30 - 90 days. The biggest amount of time in maintaining your site will be searching and implementing affiliations with various companies. If you use too many banners or links on any web page, it can confuse and help to irritate your visitors. Affiliate tracking can also be a problem. It's very important that you implement this code into your page correctly, or you may be sending visitors to the company without receiving any profit. A majority of snippets in the code will contain a unique user ID, which the company uses to distinguish which site sent traffic. More in French on Site design and Affiliation (super affiliƩ)