Make Money Online - Affiliate Marketing

  Affiliate marketing is a type of marketing participants of which, called affiliates, are being rewarded for each visitor, customer, user brought by them. This is another good way to make some extra income online, from home.

  The affiliate market has grown recently, and there are a lot of companies, sites which are offering people to join and receive rewards in accordance with their results. There are four main players in this industry: network, merchant, publisher  and customer, who buys, purchases the product or the service.

There are different strategies used by affiliates for achieving results. Usually affiliates use advertising, also they post reviews in forums, send emails(email marketing), etc.

  It happens that affiliate marketing and referral marketing are being confused. There’s a difference between them. Affiliate marketing often relies on motivations, like financial. Referral marketing is based on trust.

  To become a successful affiliate one needs to follow some strategies used by those people who reached results.  The first is to bring a massive traffic to your site, blog or affiliate page. For every site and every online program traffic is very important.  Every program becomes effective and works if it’s being seen by as many people as possible. For traffic generation, it’s important to conduct keyword researches, and use the keywords which will bring more results.

  The second way is to join affiliate programs which offer high commission rates. This is considered the main interest of every affiliate. Each effort of the affiliate should be rewarded, and that usually happens in the form of commission paid for a purchase.

Before signing up in any affiliate site, you should check it’s reliability, if it really worked for others, what were the results, were the payments made in time, etc.

  When placing an advertisement in your site or blog, you should also have a relevant content on each page. That means the content should provide information about the product, program, etc. The domain of the site or blog should be somehow associated with the product as well.  It’s important to update the articles, to add information which will be helpful for interested people.

  Sometimes it’s also helpful to add information about yourself, as an affiliate offering  a product, or a service. It will give you more chances to make extra income online.