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What is Affiliate program?

Affiliate program is an online marketing practise in which the business owner is giving rewards to the participants who bring customers or visitors to purchase their products. The reward is usually will be turned into cash depending on the amount of visitors bring to the business. One of the most popular methods used by the participant in an affiliate program is to create a website to promote or review the products sell by the owner.

The diagram below shows the concept of an affiliate program: *diagram source from wikipeedia

How affiliate program work?

There are several popular methods used by the business owner to promote their affiliate program.

1. Cost per click (CPC)
2. Cost per impression (CPM)
3. Revenue sharing
4. Multi-tier

Cost per click - The participant(publisher) would required to place a link/banner provided by the business owner(advertiser) on their website or blog, the link will be equipped with a link code. When somebody click on the link and visit the advertiser’s website, the publisher get paid.

Cost per impression - The advertiser will place a link/banner in the publisher’s website, when the site’s visitor view the ads, the publisher get paid.

Revenue sharing - This is the most popular method used by the advertiser. When somebody comes from the link/banner on your website and complete a checkout/purchase, the publisher will get part of the cost of the goods sold.

Multi-tier - The advertiser distribute commission into a hierarchical referral network of sign-ups and sub-partners. In general: publisher “A” signs up to the program with an advertiser and gets paid for the agreed activity conducted by a referred visitor.

List of popular affiliate program

There are more than thousand or million of affiliate program available, in the list below you will find some of the most popular affiliate program provided by well known websites

There are more than thousand or million of affiliate program available, in the list below you will find some of the most popular affiliate program provided by well known websites.

Commision Junction (CJ)
Bidvertiser (Monetize your Website or Blog with BidVertiser)
Google adsense
Shareapic
Amazon
Skype
Clickbank
Ebay

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