As a webmaster, you may be wondering how you can increase the revenue of your web site without having to go through the headache of massive program restructuring or changing the content drastically. One of the simplest and easiest ways to do this is to enter an Affiliate Program.
Quite simply, an Affiliate Program is a marketing agreement between you and another web site that offers certain products and services. The other web site, which is called the “merchant” in the business, pays you a commission based on certain marketing and advertising services you render for them. These services can be as simple or extravagant as you want, based on the complexity you think your site can handle and the changes you want to implement.
If you enter such an agreement with a merchant, your web site then becomes referred to as a “publisher”. As a publisher, one of the simplest and easiest ways to earn extra revenue is to enter a per-click and per-ad commission agreement with your merchant. In the per click basis, you simply add links to your web site that redirect people to your merchant’s web site. For every person thus redirected, you earn a small...