What is Affiliate Marketing?

Affiliate Marketing is a way of a website owner making money from placing text and banner adds on their website. The adds when clicked on earn the website owner money - either a percentage of the cost of the product or number of click based arrangement.

Whether you are new to the concept of " Affiliate Marketing" and are about to build your first website or you have a website building background and would like to make some extra money, or you want to employ a website developer to place some adds on your website - you will find plenty of information throughout this website to help you.

As an affiliate marketer there are many programs or networks to choose from - one of the best ways of learning and understanding the process is to start with "Googles" Adsense program. The instructions are clearly laid out and easy to follow. You will learn about the banner sizes and best place to put them on your website. The best part about adsense is that the adds you put on are "contextual" which means that the adds are automatically matched to come up to suit your websites content. This also means that the visitor is more likely to click on the add as it is something they are interested in. Google also provides statistics you can set up to see the number of page impressions, and how many and where the clicks are coming from.

Once you have grasped the concept of how and where to put the adds you can then start searching for some relevant affiliate programs to join. You can either join individual programs run by business's or you can join one large network and have access to thousands of affiliate programs.

Affiliate Marketing is definitely not a way to get rich quickly - there is no "make 50,000,00 in one month" magic button to push. ( there are plenty of promises scattered throughout the internet claiming the impossible - generally if it sounds too good to be true it is!!). However if you are willing to learn and spend the time you will be rewarded with a steady stream of income for many years to come.

You will also need to spend time to learn the many different aspects of affliate marketing - which we have provided in the content of this website. We have put together the best information to help you on your affiliate marketing journey. It has come from many years of hard work and experience and plenty of mistakes!