Affiliate marketing is explained by click2sell like this:

As you already may know, the term „Affiliate Programs" are programs through which a merchant pays commissions to his affiliates in exchange for generating clicks, leads, or sales. Also, you can meet other terms such as „associate programs", „partner programs", „referral programs", or „revenue sharing programs". It is the same thing in general, just named differently.

Online Affiliate Programs  have many active affiliates who are part of  a integrated affiliate network and merchants who promote their products and their programs to affiliates. This relationship between merchant and affiliate gives better sense to call those programs – affiliate programs.

The mechanism of participating in affiliate program typically is the following: merchant joins affiliate marketing network and lists his products in Online Marketplace. Then Affiliates sign up with a merchant‘s affiliate program and start to advertise his products.

For all successful sales merchant pays affiliate a commission, based on affiliate program conditions. In some online affiliate programs reward for affiliate endeavor can be based on new user registrations or any other user action.

In order to assign commissions for sold products to certain affiliates correctly, most often affiliate programs are helped by affiliate tracking programs, which track every visitor, best converting keywords, every sale and other essential to online marketing information.

Find The Best Affiliate Program

We at Wealth Affiliate University have the best product to promote, the W.A.University. We get our affiliate link and learn how to send visitors to the WA review page and the rest is history. By doing that, we learn how to become affiliate marketers and then we know how to promote other products. W.A. has even got other products we can promote as well.

Having a place to learn and earn at the same time. That is the best of all worlds. Because of this, I now have this website at http://onlinemarketinguniversities.com/   to promote and they even host it.

I have learned how to find other affiliate programs as well. I found one  that I like at click2sell and they have many products in their market place.

I really like helping others if you need help let me know, just PM me. If I don't know the answer, I will find out.

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