Third party affiliate networks such as Commission Junction, LinkShare, Shareasale and ClickBank are essential resources for the serious online affiliate marketer. They provide the affiliate marketer with products to sell, website content, hourly stats, complete tracking and collecting services. More importantly they send out your monthly commission checks.Any webmaster or marketer can join an affiliate program and place affiliate links on their websites or blogs; if a visitor to your site clicks on one of your affiliate links or banners and goes to that company’s site and buys a product or signs up for a service - you earn a commission for having referred that customer. A commission can run from a few cents to hundreds of dollars or more, depending on the product’s price and your percentage of the sale. Third party affiliate networks are like Mega
Affiliate Sites. View them as malls for the online affiliate marketer - there are thousands of companies under one roof or control panel. An affiliate can join a third party network like LinkShare and once accepted, you will be able to access and promote thousands of high profile companies like Apple, Dell, RadioShack... The affiliate then uses the merchant’s banners, online coupons, or text link codes to promote their chosen merchants.The main advantage of using a program like LinkShare and those mentioned above, you can easily join and control all your affiliate links and codes through one site. Its acts like an agent for marketers - it will work on your behalf for a small percentage of the commissions. Only drawback, expect to earn slightly less than if you dealt directly with the merchants involved because these third party programs do take their cut.
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