Make money from the affiliate programs

There are many companies or individuals who are promoting their products online. So they offer an affiliate program for website owners. So, if you want to promote their products, you can sign up their affiliate programs completely free. Then you will get a unique affiliate code which include your affiliate ID. You paste the code on your website. When the code get a result from your website, the company or individual who are promoting this product will pay you some money. Usually, you are paid every month when you reach $50 or more. It is really depending on the program.

Generally, there are four type of affiliate programs for you. CPM, CPC, CPL and CPS.

CPM means Cost Per Impression. When you paste the code on your site, the banner are displaying when visitors open your site. Then you will be paid. The money depends on how many unique visitors per 24 hour do you have. You will get $3 or more per 1000 impressions. The price depends on the affiliate program and the traffic where come from.

CPC means Cost Per Click. When a visitor click the advertisement after you paste the code on your website, the affiliate program will pay you. The price of one click depends on the affiliate and where the visitor come from too. Yahoo have launched their Pay per Click in 2005. The price is very good for webmasters. But it is only allowing publishers from US now. Usually, Some programs just as Yahoo and Google, are called PPC programs too.

CPL means Cost Per Lead. For example, someone is running a dating site. He want to get more members and set up an affiliate program. When a member is referred by your affiliate ID, he will pay you some money. So the money you you earn depends on how many leads do you promote from your site. There are many good CPL affiliate programs pay you on time, such as HydraMedia, LinkConnector and so on.

CPS means Cost Per Sale. Just like CPL, when a people sign up for a membership and buy something under your affiliate ID, the advertiser will pay you 10% more or less or an exact amount of money. It will run very good when your websites' content is matching the advertiser's products. For example, if your website is about cell phones, the advertisers who are selling cell phones or doing cell phone services are very good for you.

There are some small skills when selecting which affiliate programs do you want to promote. If your site have many impressions every day, you should select CPM. If your site are professional content based, CPL will be very good for you.

OK. Just find some affiliate programs and select one or more to promote them. Then get paid from them next month. If you want to know more about making money from your web site, just check out the link below. You may find something you are looking for.

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