| Affiliate Marketing
is an Internet-based marketing practice in which a business
rewards one or more affiliates for each visitor or customer brought
about by the affiliate's marketing efforts. It is an application of
crowdsourcing.
The Affiliate Marketing industry has four core players at its heart: the Merchant (also known informally as 'Retailer' or 'Brand'), the Network, the Publisher (also known informally as 'the Affiliate') and the Customer. The market has grown sufficiently in complexity to warrant a secondary tier of players, including Affiliate Management Agencies, Super-Affiliates and Specialized Third Parties vendors. Affiliate marketing overlaps with other Internet marketing methods to some degree, because affiliates often use regular advertising methods. Those methods include organic search engine optimization, paid search engine marketing, e-mail marketing, and in some sense display advertising. On the other hand, affiliates sometimes use less orthodox techniques, such as publishing reviews of products or services offered by a partner. Affiliate marketing—using one website to drive traffic to another—is a form of online marketing, which is frequently overlooked by advertisers. While search engines, e-mail, and website syndication capture much of the attention of online retailers, affiliate marketing carries a much lower profile. Still, affiliates continue to play a significant role in e-retailers' marketing strategies. (source www.ask.com) Ok so how would I use something like this? Let's say your big hobby is showing dogs. You already have a web site or want to set one up to share photos of your beautiful dogs and their accomplishments in the show ring. of course you will use AkitaServer for this. You also buy lots of dog toys, vitamins, dog crates for your dogs
online from PETCO.com! There are affiliate management programs such as shareasale.com that you join for free. They have hundreds of advertisers or merchants to choose from. You find the advertisers you wand to represent and copy there banner or text code that has your member id info and each time a visitor to your website buys a product using your code you get paid. The example of banners are below.
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