What is Affiliate Marketing ?

In Simple words, Affiliate Marketing is when you advertise or promote a product and get commission of that product if someone purchases that product from your given affiliate link.

For Example :-

If i am a seller and i sell digital marketing books, and you are the marketer who does the advertising and promotion of my books to people, and you get a customer to purchase my book and i sell that digital marketing book though you to the customer and i give you the commission of that book what was sold by me with the help of you. This is known as Affiliate Marketing in a tradition way.

Today the process of Affiliate marketing is same but the way has changed!

Today people do Affiliate Marketing is done through digital method which is known as digital marketing.

Affiliate Marketing helps people and especially students to earn a nice income.

How to start Affiliate Marketing ?

You can go to any e-selling site (for example Amazon) and check that they have and Affiliate Program and register to their Affiliate Marketing Program.

Example of how Affiliate Program works

• First you need to register to any Affiliate Marketing Program (Eg. Amazon)
• After registering you will be able to promote the products through the a special link which denotes that you are the advertiser of that link.
• After that you can put that link on your blogs, website etc and share them.
• If a person purchases the product by your given affiliate link you will get the commission of that product and you can see it on your working dashboard.

Note :- Read the terms and condition nicely as some Affiliate Programs don't support affiliate links to be shared on WhatsApp (Example :- Amazon)

Their are different Types of Affiliate Marketing Programs

• PPC (Pay Per Click) Affiliate Marketing : Pay Per Click affiliates Marketing is as simple as its name, you get paid on per click on your affiliate link. But also read the terms and condition as some have the targets of clicks and pay you after the target is completed.

• Content Affiliate Marketing : In this type of Marketing runs through sites (like blogs/article, websites, portals) and monetize their traffic by sending users to advertisers page or portal through banner ads and text links. 

• Social media Marketing : The rise of social media sites like Facebook, Twitter have lead to the creation of a new type of affiliate program which the user can send affiliate links on social media through his/her account and promote them and can generate sales.This type of affiliate Marketing doesn't rely on websites but on various social media apps like Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram etc.

Summary :-

• Affiliate Marketing is a marketing arrangement through which an online retailer pays commission to an external website for its purchase.

• Different types of Affiliate Marketing Programs are Content Affiliate Marketing, Pay Per Click Marketing (PPC), Social Media Markeitng (SMM) etc.

• Their are Three person in Affiliate Program,the merchant the affiliate(the person who promotes the product) and the customer.

• An affiliate can link to the merchant site in many ways like Banner, Text links, Product specific link etc