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What is affiliate marketing & why choose it to make money?

Posted on February 25, 2020 by ApteryxGav

Why start affiliate marketing?

First off, what is affiliate marketing?
In basic terms it’s very specific type of advertising.

A company that has a website and products or services to sell enlists people to link to their website with a specific URL (Uniform Resource Locator – or web address to most of us 😉). Any purchase that is made from the click on that web address is assigned to the affiliate as a sale you get a cut of the sale, this can be anywhere from 0.1% and sometimes as high as 25%. The great thing about it is on some websites a click through can be counted if the sale happens even up to 30 days after the original click through. Make enough sales and you get paid 😃.

Basically Viewer of your website -> Clicks affiliate URL -> Shopping website -> Purchase -> You get paid 🥳🎉

How do affiliates track your traffic?

Say you have a website specifically about Star Wars or cool tech gear then you may want to advertise specific Star Wars merchandise. You can do that through many different affiliate programs, but as a demonstration I will be showing how an example of an Amazon UK affiliate link. We’ll start by looking at the code for a “USB stick 32 GB BB8 TLJ – Original Star Wars Flash Drive 2.0, Tribe FD030708”

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Tribe-BB8-Memory-Figure-Keychain-Orange/dp/B078WW34VC/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&linkCode=ll1&tag=ACCOUNT-21&linkId=b1abd8b8e1ae59c06d38672b415178f8&language=en_GB

Breaking down that code, this is the direct link that will get you to the product normally:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Tribe-BB8-Memory-Figure-Keychain-Orange/dp/B078WW34VC/


then there’s

ref=as_li_ss_tl

which is referring to where on Amazon the link was from.

After the ? is where the information about the affiliate’s code is: ?

ie=UTF8&linkCode=ll1&tag=ACCOUNT-27&linkId=b1abd8b8e1ae59c06d38672b415178f8&language=en_GB 

I have changed it to ACCOUNT-27 however that would normally have your own user code in there.

Why choose affiliate marketing?

There’s often a lot less risk than starting a shop, multi-level marketing or drop shipping as the fees for entry are much lower. You can even start affiliate marketing for free with a free WordPress blog, or for very low costs with a domain name and very low cost web hosting.

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