3 Basic Ways to Make Money from Affiliate Programs.

[Luffy]

1. Traffic numbers to your site - While this is not the most common of the payout forms, it is one that some advertisers use. This form of affiliate marketing involves having an advertiser's ad or banner on your site. That advertiser pays you per impression of his banner on your site, not the click through rate to his or her site. So, essentially the more traffic YOU get the more you get paid.
The ads on your site are also promoting the brand of the advertiser. The advertisers pay you to get their brand in front of your visitors. Visitors will click through to the advertisers' site depending on the effectiveness of their ad creative.
2. Pay per click - In this form of affiliate advertising, also known as ppc, an advertiser pays for every person who clicks through from your website to theirs. Special affiliate software or affiliate tracking programs are needed to keep up with the revenue, but when a web site affiliate program is set up right, this can be a real big moneymaker.
3. Direct Sales Commissions. Most affiliate programs will only pay out when traffic goes from your site to theirs and then makes a purchase of something. This form of advertising generally offers a higher payoff, but the conversion rate can be rather low. It's one thing to entice a visitor to check out another site, it's a completely different ball game to convince them to buy a product.

[Squigley]

Hi. The link in your sig isn't set up properly.

[dbirider]

I think luffy is an automated forum spammer

[haynesey]

Originally Posted by dbirider

I think luffy is an automated forum spammer

+1 but made by a stupid programmer who couldn't get the link in the sig right