Affiliate Marketing A Simple Guide

What Is Affiliate Marketing and Can it Work for You?

Affiliate marketing is said to have risen by 60% in 2007 over 2005/2006, and is set to increase in the same way for 2008 to 2009 and so on.

So What Can Affiliate Marketing Bring Your business? And How Does it Work?

Affiliate marketing can bring more traffic and sales to your website for a relatively low cost. With thousands of affiliates out there advertising your company on their website for free you can get a lot more traffic and sales on your website from all their hard work. Companies have reported 100%-600% increase in sales from their websites from this form of marketing alone.

Affiliate Marketing Works in This Way

You the supplier have a product or service you want to sell and market via your website. You aren't getting great results with search engine optimisation and don't want to risk pay per click.

So you approach an affiliate program provider (a list available on request) and you add a program that you want to market. A program is a combination of text links, banner ads for your site plus a commission plan for all referrals.

The affiliate program provider adds your program to their list of programs that they offer to affiliates.