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If you already understand affiliate programs you can scroll to the bottom for a list of the free affiliate programs. Remember all of the best affiliate programs are free! Affiliate product sourcing is similar to drop shipping, but you aren't even the one handling sales, invoices, customer support, or any of this. With affiliate marketing you create your business website's content and place affiliate links from affiliate programs on your website. Now when someone clicks this link they will be taken to the affiliate program's website to purchase. They will purchase from this affiliate program's website and this company will ship them the product and also take care of all customer interactions. Basically all you are doing is advertising for this company. Now you may be wondering how you make money from this affiliate link. Each time you refer someone to an affiliate company and they purchase a product you will get a sales commission from this affiliate company basically for making the sale for them, just like if you were a sales person in a local store that pays their employees sales commissions. There are 3 major ways you can earn a commissions from these affiliate programs. Each affiliate program offers something different, but the 3 major types that most affiliate companies offer is pay per sale, pay per lead, and pay per click, some companies even pay per impression.

Pay per sale affiliate companies will pay you like the example I have in the above paragraph. You refer someone to say amazon.com to purchase a digital camera, amazon.com will ship out this product to them and then send you a commission for making this sale for them. Now also most affiliate companies provide cookie tracking, which can last any where from 1 hour to 1 year. Cookie tracking with affiliate programs basically places a small text file on the person's computer that has clicked this link containing your affiliate ID. Now what this does is track this person so if they come back to this affiliate company say 1 week from now and purchase you will still get the commissions. Also with pay per sale affiliate programs you will also get paid for any product this person purchases even if it wasn't the one you refered them to. So you send them to amazon.com to buy a digital camera and they end up buying a laptop instead, you will still get this commission. Each company has their own set time limit for how ling these cookies last, most affiliate programs will provide you with this information saying their tracking cookie lasts for 30 days, 45 days, 90 days, 1 year, etc.

Pay per lead affiliate programs works similar, but instead of providing this affiliate company with a sale, you are providing them with a potential buyer. This is usually placing an affiliate link on your website to this affiliate company and they offer a free account sign up or maybe a free newsletter they can sign up for. Now when this person signs up for this newsletter they will pay you a pay per lead commision, because eventually this affiliate company will make that money back after this person starts purchasing something off of this affiliate company's website. They will send out a newsletter to this person once a week, bi-weekly, monthly, whichever it is with products and service sales or promotions that they have going on and hopefully this person will purchase something. Even if this person doesn't purchase anything you will still get paid, as you get paid just for signing this person up with their free account or newsletter. This person doesn't have to purchase anything.

Pay per click affiliate programs is similar as well as you have to place their links on your website, which most likely we will have you signup for Google Adsense which will provide you with pay per click ads automatically for you. Google AdSense will scan your website to see what your content is about and then place relevant ads to your websites content on your website automatically for you. Now when someone clicks on one of these Google AdSense ads you will get paid. They don't have to sign up for anything, they don't have to purchase, all they have to do is click on your ad and you get paid. There are also some other pay per click programs besides Google AdSense, but Google AdSense is owned by Google which is a lot larger network and will have ads in their database on just about anything you could ever think of.

Pay per impression is usually rare. An impression is basically someone comes to your website and sees this ad on their screen, they don't click on it, they don't sign up, they don't buy, anything, as long as this affiliate ad shows up on their screen you will get paid. Some pay per impression affiliate programs will pay for every impression, and some will pay after a set amount of impressions. Say affiliate company A may pay for every 1,000 impressions, so after 1,000 people have seen this ad on your website, then they will send you a commission for the impressions. Again these are usually hard to find and when you do find them they will be something like $5 for every 1,000 impressions, so not very profitable, but their are some that may pay $0.01 per every impression.

NO affiliate program should ever charge you to be an affiliate for them! If you find an affiliate program that is asking you for money to sign up with them, leave their website and never go back! You are advertising for them, to generate sales for them, why pay to send them sales?!?! Also if one of the best affiliate programs I have listed here is asking for money, you are in the wrong section of their website, you are probably in the section where affiliate program companies sign up to have people advertise their product and yes they pay for you to advertise, so that's why they may be asking you for money. Leave that section and make sure you go under publisher and not advertiser. All of the best affiliate programs I have listed here for you are all FREE and will never ask you for money.

Some affilaite companies handle their own affiliate programs, but some affiliate companies pay other companies to handle their tracking for them. Most companies that offer an affiliate program pay Link Share, Commission Junction, or Double Click Performics to handle their affiliate programs for them. Most companies that offer an affiliate program will list on their websites somewhere that you can click to join their affiliate program. These will be listed as different names, some will say affiliate program, affiliates, affiliate, associates, partners, or something along those lines. So if you don't find the affiliate company you are looking for under Link Share, Commission Junction, or Double Click Performics, then try going to that company's website and look around for one of these links somewhere. Usually they will place this on the very bottom of their websites.

Here is a list of the best affiliate programs that you will probably want to use, again you can sign up for all of them, they are all 100% FREE to sign up with the best affiliate programs.

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