Affiliate Marketing - promote your business

Affiliate marketing is a method of promoting web businesses in which an affiliate is rewarded for every visitor, subscriber, customer, and/or sale provided through his/her efforts. Compensation or commission may be made based on a certain value for each exposure (CPM), visit (Pay per click), registrant or new customer (Pay per lead), sale (usually a percentage, Pay per sale or revenue share), or any combination of them.

    Types of Affiliate Sites

    Affiliate sites are often categorized by merchants (Advertisers) and Affiliate networks.

  • The main categories are:

  • Search affiliates that utilize Pay per click
  • Search engines to promote the advertisers offers (Search arbitrage)
  • Web Hosting Affiliate Program is leading edge and award-winning web hosting company offering scalable and quality hosting solutions.
  • Comparison shopping sites and directories
  • Loyalty sites,
  • typically characterized by providing a reward system for purchases via points back, cash back or charitable donations
  • Coupon and rebate sites that focus on Sales promotions
  • Content and niche sites, including product review sites
  • Personal websites (these type of sites were the reason for the birth of affiliate marketing, but are today almost reduced to complete irrelevance compared to the other types of affiliate sites)
  • Blogs and
  • RSS Feeds
  • Email list affiliates (Owners of large opt-in email list):

 

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