Affiliate Marketing - How it works

Affiliate marketing is a method of promoting web businesses, where advertisers such as merchant who sells their product or services online. In return, the affiliate, who is the owner of the site, that chooses to display a merchant's products and services can earn commissions, on clicks, leads, or purchases that being made through the links on their site.

Affiliates or publisher agree to place advertiser promotions on their web site in the form of graphic or in a text links. This system of Affiliate marketing allows merchants to pay their affiliates based on performance.

So the concept is as simple as this, a customer visit an affiliates program then affiliate/publisher will direct customer the their partner/online merchant's as soon customer purchases on their products then thats the time when affiliates get compensated or can be paid of.

What is Online Marketing?

Online Marketing/Internet marketing can be simply defined as a process of promoting and selling products or services through internet.

Online marketing should not only concern mainly in promoting a website where your products and services offered but putting up advertisement on another website regarding your website.

Internet played a big rule for the world of marketing for a reason that marketers can reach globally the consumers in a low cost on what they can offer.

And because of this process it can only be access if the consumer is online so there is limitation after all in a way that not all people are in touch with this kind of technologies.

But still consumers will have the privilege to do some research and eventually purchase the products and services that being introduced in the market conveniently.

The main goal in Online Marketing is to earn more profits and increase the sales of products and services that is being rendered.