Today, affiliates are making money without ever leaving the house. What is an affiliate, you ask? An affiliate is a website owner who earns a commission by referring visitors to another website. Whenever a visitor makes a purchase at the other website, the affiliate gets a commission. The trick to making money this way is knowing what websites to link to and how to advertise.
When you become an affiliate of a website, your visitors believe you?re recommending the product. Don?t give a link to a website that sells a bad product. Instead, try to make the product or service relevant to your site. For example, let?s say your website is dedicated to horses. Don?t direct your visitors to a company that sells tye-die T-shirts; instead, direct them to a company that sells T-shirts featuring horses.
Think of the product in the long-run. If a guy likes the T-shirt he bought, he?ll go back to the website and buy it again. However, if you link him to a website selling a one-year subscription to a horse magazine, he?ll only come back once a year.
If the magazine is more popular than the T-shirt, then maybe that?s a better choice. Look over records to see which is...