What are Affiliate Networks?
Wednesday, April 18th, 2007
Affiliate Networks in a Nutshell
Affiliate networks are online companies providing a go between for advertisers and affiliates. They make it easy for the advertisers to obtain leads and/or sales, and affiliates to make money from various affiliate programs.
Most affiliate networks provide tools, including images, banners and other useful tools for affiliate members. This makes it a cinch for those wanting to make money from affiliate programs to simply copy and paste the html source of each creative straight to their website and begin earning immediately.
The really good networks like RoiRocket will provide tracking and reporting tools to ensure that you maximise your affiliate income. This is free to join and provides everything you need to get started.
Here’s what Wikipedia has to say on Affiliate Networks:
An affiliate network is a value-added online media intermediary, providing services including aggregation, distribution of creative materials, and campaign performance tracking/reporting, for affiliate merchants and affiliates.
For affiliate merchants, services can include providing tracking technology, reporting tools, payment processing, and access to a large base of affiliates. For affiliates, services can include providing one-click application to new merchants, reporting tools, and payment aggregation.
The networks are free to join but can be hard to find. They sometimes call themselves names like “marketing solutions provider“, “pay-for-performance network“, “cost-per-action advertising network”, or even “performance-based online marketing services company“. They can provide pay-per-lead (PPL), pay-per-sale (PPS), pay-per-action (PPA) – sometimes called cost per action (CPA) – and pay-per-click (PPC) offers from merchants that you promote on your web site or in your newsletter.
Some affiliate networks allow almost anyone to join. Others insist your site must receive a certain number of visitors. Some also let you see a directory of the merchants in the network before you join, whereas others show you their list of offers only after you join.
This type of online opportunity is a great way to begin earning a revenue from your site without too much effort. If you can copy and paste then it is possible to start within minutes.As any activity from your sites is usually tracked in realtime by the top affiliate networks you can see how well your site is performing and actually watch your sites’ income increase as it happens.
Every lead or action performed from your website will add more dollars to your account. The fact that there are even tools available that capture your visitors details on exiting your site, means that you can be making a second income from visitors that were long gone anyhow.
The tools provided by affiliate network programs can work alongside your current ads and NOT have an effect on your revenue from these.
For more information on getting started with affiliate networks contact me at:
mal@[REMOVETHIS]roirocketcorp.com
If you have a website and you are getting visitors, I can have you up and running in minutes.
Mal Keenan
RoiRocket.com
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