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You recommend a product or service to people that read what you have to say
A percentage of those people purchase the product or service based on your recommendation.
You get paid a commission for those purchases made by people who purchased through clicking on the personalized link you provided.
You have an email list, blog, or website or some other online presence like social media where people listen to what you have to say.
You partner with the company that sells a product or service you’d like to recommend. As their general, you are their affiliate. It goes by different names such as associate, partner as well. You recommend or market their products or service to your followers or readers. You could do this by writing a blog about it, placing one or two ads places on your site, or talking about it in your email newsletter or on social media networks. You include a special link to the product or service so followers can check it out for themselves. This is called an affiliate link. It has a special number, a unique affiliate ID, which is assigned to you.
A reader of yours uses (by clicking on) your affiliate link to check out the product or service and they actually purchase it. Then, when their purchase is complete, you earn a commission. This commission is usually in the form of a percentage of the purchase price. Bigger affiliate programs are going to have smaller percentages to offer. The smaller affiliate programs can offer a 50% or higher commission on when you promote.
You receive a total payment of your all your earnings after a specified period of time, or when you reach a certain threshold.
Always tell your readers when you are using affiliate links. It is illegal and in generally a bad practice to try to trick your readers into clicking affiliate links.
Only choose products or services you can recommend without the money. This means only recommending the best products available, and being honest in your reviews. You want your audience’s trust. You can’t get that if you are pushing bad products to them for your own profit. Try out the services yourself. There isn’t a more quality review than that.
Choose products or services that are actually relevant to you. Having random ads or posts on your website makes you look like a spammer. It lowers the possibility that anyone would trust your opinion. If you look like you are in it just for the money, and not to provide a service to your reader, then you will surely lose your audiences, test, then test again. Test out with different networks, kinds of content, ad designs, links and images, placement on your page, and all things of this nature. Sometimes there truly large differences in revenue when small changes are made.
Always know the Terms of Service for the programs in which you are participating.
We will not, in any circumstances, share your personal information with other individuals or organizations without your permission, including public organizations, corporations or individuals, except when applicable by law.
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