Lesson How Does Affiliate Marketing Work?

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Affiliate marketing is basically a web-based system where you (as an affiliate) get paid for referring sales or customers to another business. This lesson will further explore the answer to: How does affiliate marketing work?

There are lots of different ways of being an affiliate. Here are some fictional examples:

Geoff has a website full of dog-training advice. On the side of his pages he has placed an ad for a dog-training eBook. If any of his visitors click on his ad and buy the eBook from the merchant's website, Geoff receives 75% of the price of the book as commission for sending the visitor to the merchant.

How Does Affiliate Marketing Work? An image showing a dog training affiliate site.

Tara has a health supplements website, containing lots of useful information about various health supplements. By pasting a small segment of code into her website, she gets ads relevant to her content automatically showing up on her page. She earns money every time a visitor to her site clicks on one of these ads, even if they don't end up buying from the...

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