The Internet has fast become an efficient and trusted way for companies to market and sell their product. One of the reasons for this has been the rise of “Affiliated Marketing” – which is when a website directs traffic to itself through adverts on other (usually related) websites. Affiliated marketing either pays the affiliate through a pay-per-click program (the affiliate receives money every time an advert is clicked) or a pay-per-sale program (the affiliate receives commission every time a posted advert on their site generates an actual sale or subscription.) Generally, the pay-per-sale program (also called cost-per-sale, or CPS) is the tried and trusted form of affiliate marketing used.
Affiliate marketing began just four years after the world wide web was launched, originally popularized by well known companies such as CDNOW or Amazon.com. Google’s Adsense is also a very well known type of affiliated marketing, but is not really considered as true affiliate marketing as the adverts usually centers around the theme of the website they are displayed (known more as contextual advertising.) Google does not also directly sell a specific product, but generates money in other ways.
Affiliate marketing is highly cost-effective, and in effect costs both the advertiser and the affiliate nothing, while having the potential of bringing in a very large form of income for both parties. While pay per click (or cost-per-click) mentioned above can present a risk to the advertiser, the cost-per-sale (CPS) system has very little or no risk at all for both parties, and is therefore preferred.
For an example of how you can get them dollars using Google Adsense and Amazon’s affiliate program, take a quick look at one of my other websites based on comparing espresso machines by clicking here. As you can see I have incorporated both into my website
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June 20th, 2010 at 11:03 AM
Thanks for the interesting post! May I ask where you get your sources from?
June 20th, 2010 at 11:10 AM
I’m glad you liked it, my sources come from my schooling. I am currently enrolled in what I believe is the only regionally accredited Internet Marketing program at Rasmussen College. Beyond that I have tried many of the programs out there and after a few more informational articles I will go more in depth on each topic. Thanks for the comment!
July 6th, 2010 at 3:48 PM
Fantastic post, thanks lots!
July 10th, 2010 at 5:48 PM
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