Understanding Affiliate Programs
Posted on : 11-10-2011 | By : Tegoeh Chuzy | In : Affiliate
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Affiliate programs are usually not well understood. To begin to understand let’s review the terminology. To make an initial clarification, an affiliate is any person who has a Web page and makes “referred” or promoting a product to earn commissions. From that Web page, it sends the visitor to the merchant’s website, which is selling the product. The merchant can be defined as the group, firm or company that owns a product and shares the revenue from purchases received from the affiliate website.
There are three basic types of affiliate programs, although the first two are the most common.
PPC (Pay Per Click) – This is when an affiliate is rewarded for sending traffic to the merchant. A clear example is Google Adsense.
PPS (Pay Per Sale) – This is when the affiliate is rewarded by the merchant if the referral that is sent generates a sale.
PPL (Pay Per Lead) – This is when the merchant agrees to pay a commission if referred to your Web page performs an action, as you register, fill out a form or what the dealer offers.
Web pages of members typically provide information, entertainment, and good content services to its visitors. The online merchants sell products and services through Internet. These programs allow affiliates to earn money based on your web visitors are directed to the merchant’s website. Some merchants pay a fee only to attract visitors to your site, and others pay a portion of sales if you buy has come from your website. It’s that simple.
As you understood it is important to have a good amount of traffic to your website so that referrals are many purchases or actions taken by the visitors are older. Traffic should be specific, ie it must consist of people who really are interested in the product you’re promoting. The mission of the affiliate to give information about something, and that the visitor is buying the product page of the merchant. Do not confuse one thing, the member should NOT try to sell anything to anyone. That is the mission of the merchant.