No doubt you've heard of affiliate marketing on the internet, but do you truly understand what it is and how it's used? You may want to incorporate this into your internet marketing program for your business.
Let's take a closer look at the most important aspects of affiliate marketing to see if its right for you.
What is it? First, affiliate marketing refers to online programs that bring businesses who want to sell products together with publishers of sites that are willing to promote these products.
These online communities offer an advertiser the ability to sign up and choose which sites he/she would like their ads placed on.
Based on your preferences, you can place ads on however many sites you'd like.
What are the benefits? There are quite a few benefits to getting involved in an affiliate marketing program.
Here are the most important:

1. Publishers Compete: First off, the publishers in the program compete to be able to promote your ads, so you have a wide range of options in deciding who to use for their services.
   
2. Results Pay: Secondly, publishers only get paid by you if they bring you the results you want.
   This can vary from advertiser to advertiser, but popular examples are how many site visits they can bring you, a high conversion rate, etc.
   
3. Tracking In-House: Another great feature of choosing this way of marketing is that you can track all activity from ads to customer response through the system.
   So, for example, you can see which publishers and which ads brought about the most converted sales last month and which failed.