Sunday, August 29, 2010

What is Affiliate Marketing?

You may not know what Affiliate marketing is before you visit this site. This is one of the most effective ways to advertise on the internet. You can really make easy money online. The concpet of affiliate marketing is not hard to understand.

Say there is a company (eBay for example)ask a web site to place a banner to eBay.com. There are two options. eBay can buy the banner impressions and pay per 1000 impressions. On the other hand, eBay can have another option to pay the website. When someone clicks the banner, visiting eBay and bid an item. eBay will pay the original site and this is what affiliate marketing is.

The history of affiliate marketing goes back to approximately 1994 with the trailblazing music website www.CDNow.com. This is probably the first website which adopted the model of affiiliate marketing. Later on, other websites such as Amazon.com also adopted this model of marketing. Today, this model becomes one of the most practised one in the online world.