How Affiliate Marketing Works?

How Affiliate Marketing Works?

The core of affiliate marketing is a simple process:

1. An affiliate refers potential customers to a merchant’s website.

2. Some of those customers perform a desired action.

3. The merchant rewards the affiliate for each desired action resulting from

the affiliate’s referral.

However, there are many different ways an affiliate might market a merchant’s

offering, there are many different types of action which can be rewarded, and,

most importantly, there needs to be some way of keeping track of the whole

process.

We’re going to take a look at the different types of action first of all, then discuss

keeping track, and lastly take a look at some of the many means affiliates use

to send merchants customers, and of course, to make themselves money.