How To Make Money off Your Web Site

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There are many popular blogs and web sites on the Web today, but many of them are not taking advantage of the many opportunities available for monetization.For the Webmaster, one of the the hardest things about using an affiliate program to earn money is finding a good one that will actually produce results for you. To better your chances of earning revenue from affiliate marketing here are some tips to get you started:

What is Affiliate Marketing?

Affiliate marketing allows you to earn high income from your website while providing related services to your visitors. An automated marketing program where a Web advertiser or merchant recruits webmasters to place the merchant's banner ads or buttons on their own Web site. Webmasters will receive a referral fee or commission from sales when the customer has clicked the affiliate link to get to the merchant's Web site Web site to perform the desired action.

Types of affiliate programs: 

You can choose from pay-per-sale, pay-per-lead, pay-per-click or pay-per-display Affiliate programs. All the listed programs are free to join and provide you with online statistics so that you can track your commissions. Once you have joined an Affiliate program, you will be paid according to the programs pay type. A pay-per-sale program pays you each time a sale is made by a customer sent from your website; a pay-per-lead programs pays you each time you forward a lead to the Merchant; a pay-per-click program pays each time an advertisement is clicked and pay-per-display of 1000 of a merchants banners.

Advertising Programs:

Cost Per Click (CPC) : A visitor to the Affiliates website clicks on a Merchant's banner and visits the Merchant's website. This payment structure is referred to as - cost per click (CPC). (Google AdSense)

Affiliate Programs:

Cost Per Sale (CPA) : A visitor referred by the Affiliate purchases goods and services from the Merchant. This payment structure is referred to as - cost-per-sale or cost per acquisition (CPA). (eBay Affiliates)