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How To Make Money with Affiliate Marketing

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<strong>Affiliate</strong> Program — once affiliates have referred people to their products, merchants use this<br />

particular program to pay for commissions<br />

Commission — the percentage of the total sale to be paid to the affiliate for referring a sale<br />

Cookie — cookies in affiliate marketing are used to assign unique IDs to buyers in order to tag<br />

purchases as being referred by you; they usually have a predetermined lifespan, so that even if<br />

the buyer fails to purchase right away, you can still get credit for the sale (if it takes place <strong>with</strong>in<br />

a certain timeframe, usually 60 days or more)<br />

Customer — the purchaser or end user of the merchant’s products or services<br />

Merchant — also known as a brand or retailer; the creator or owner of the products or services<br />

Referral — credit for a sale or a click that occurs when the affiliate sends traffic to the<br />

merchant’s website<br />

THE MECHANICS OF GETTING<br />

PAID FOR PROMOTING AFFILIATE<br />

PRODUCTS<br />

Understanding how to make money <strong>with</strong> affiliate marketing also means grasping the<br />

technicalities of affiliate marketing itself. But you don’t need to worry about it. This affiliate<br />

marketing guide has all the details to get you started.<br />

It is the merchant’s affiliate program software which manages and runs the actual affiliate<br />

marketing mechanics in the background. Here’s a glimpse of what happens behind the scenes:<br />

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Once an affiliate joins the merchant’s program, a unique ID and a specific URL (to be used when<br />

promoting the product) will be given<br />

The link is included in the affiliate’s subscriber e-mails or blog content, inviting readers to click it to<br />

find out more about the offer<br />

Once the potential buyer decides to visit the merchant’s website and clicks the link, a cookie identifying<br />

the affiliate is automatically placed on the computer he or she is using. This cookie ensures that the<br />

publisher is still credited <strong>with</strong> the referral sale<br />

Upon the completion of the sale process, the merchant checks the sales record for a cookie which<br />

identifies the source of the referral<br />

The affiliate is credited <strong>with</strong> a sale if the merchant finds a cookie <strong>with</strong> an affiliate ID<br />

For the affiliate to see their sales and referral clicks, the merchant makes sure that specific reports are<br />

made available<br />

The merchant is scheduled to pay the affiliate a commission at the end of each payment period

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