OK before we get into the in’s and out of Affiliate Marketing we firstly need to give a definition of what it actually is. This is probably telling the majority of visitors to this website how to suck eggs, so please ignore this post or if you think there is a better way to explain what Affiliate Marketing is please add a comments.
So the top definitions are as follows:
A system of advertising in which site A agrees to feature buttons from site B, and site A gets a percentage of any sales generated for site B.
Again there a various ways to describe the same thing so here’s another:
A system of selling products or services in context over the Internet that allows online merchants to promote their goods or services within the content of tens of thousands of Web sites. Affiliate marketing allows merchants to pay their affiliates based on performance.
We will be following this post with a number of others relating to what Affiliate Marketing is.
SEO MAD Team.
I prefer the 2nd explanation. The first says “percentage of any sales”. This could also be a fixed price for any lead or click.