About Affiliate Marketing Websites

Affiliate marketing is a web based marketing system which allows a business to reward one or more affiliates for each visitor or customer directed to that business by the affiliate's marketing efforts, usually via a link or banner on the affiliate's website or via an email campaign. Affiliate marketing i.e. using one website to drive customers or visitors to another website, is a form of internet marketing, which is not as well known by advertisers. Most online marketing takes the form of search engine marketing, email or RSS. Affiliate marketing however is mostly used by marketing savvy businesses for a number of reasons such as: Highly Targeted Web Traffic Pre- determined Cost Per Visitor or Sale Sales Network Building Opportunities(for both affiliate & merchant) Low Cost Brand Exposure Easy Tracking of the Sales Source For all these reasons (and many more), affiliate marketing is becoming a very important part of many advertising budgets around the world and the opportunities to capitalise on this trend are enormous. Now for the bad news.......Most of the affiliate marketing campaigns you will come across are under performing, non-paying and a total waste of time, to say the least. So, how can you find the good ones. The affiliate programs with a proven track record and the capacity to allow affiliates to increase their income by online networking ? The answer isn't simple, in fact, to identify the good affiliate campaigns is an art unto itself. Just like any successful industry there are leaders, followers and pretenders. Depending on which of these you want to be (and I'm guessing leaders right?), clicking on this WEBSITE will give you an insight into affiliate marketing which has been researched by the most successful internet marketers in the world.