Affiliate Networks - Online Marketers Networks, the Easy Way to Partner up with Brand Leaders and other Commercial Online Entities

Signing up with an online marketing affiliate network would offer you access to hundreds, sometimes thousands of affiliate marketers, mostly web sites who try to expand their advertising base by use of a partner network. The tools found at the affiliate network web site would enable you to pick the right ads with their ready-to-use html codes, track your performance, automate and semi-automate ad rotations, check the performance of the networked marketers and much more.

Commission Junction
Commission Junction as one of the oldest and certainly the largest online marketing partnering and affiliate networks, offers a vast array of tools and convenient utilities for affiliate performance measurement and follow-up. Thousands of affiliate partners from various industries and services wait to partner with strong web sites that sell their products for them. Commissions paid range from 1% for simple clicks to 50% and more for high margin products and services. Clear performance indicators show marketers performance so you can select most suitable affiliate partners for your website.

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Affiliate marketing (or pay-for-performance marketing) is where an advertiser pays for results rather than paying to reach a particular audience. A publisher advertises products or services offered by advertisers in exchange for commissions on leads or sales generated. The publisher displays ads, text links or products on their Web site, in email campaigns, or in search listings, and is paid a commission by the advertiser when a visitor takes a specific action, such as filling out a form or making a purchase on the advertiser's site.

To create a performance-based marketing program, an advertiser joins Commission Junction and places their ads in the interface, making them available for placement by a publisher. Each link is assigned a commission, such as a fixed amount per lead or a percentage of a resulting sale on the advertiser's Web site. Publishers, looking for links, apply to join the advertiser's program, and upon acceptance, select and place the advertiser's offers on their Web sites, in their email campaigns, or as part of search listings.

When a consumer clicks on a publisher's link, a cookie is set on the visitor's browser that identifies the advertiser, the publisher, and the specific link and payment rates. When the visitor makes an actual purchase online or fills out a form, that transaction is tracked and recorded by Commission Junction. Upon recording the transaction, Commission Junction handles all of the collection and processing required to ensure fair and timely commission payment for the publisher, and all of the administration and verification necessary to ensure qualified sales and leads for the advertiser.

Shareasale
There are currently over 1000 Merchants plugged in to the Shareasale network. Each of these merchants has a different type of product that they are selling - and each is ready to give you a commission on that sale if you bring a customer to them. The idea - and the implementation - are simple. You decide which merchants to promote - your information is hidden to Merchants before you apply for any program - so no SPAM for you. You decide how to promote that Merchant - using your web traffic, email newsletters and other tools that you have. When commissions are generated, you can see your stats in real-time. All payments are consolidated from the programs you participate in, and are paid with one check by Shareasale. All payments from Merchants are taken up-front, to ensure that your commissions will always be paid to you.

LinkShare
In their own words: An affiliate program is a partnership between your site and an online merchant (that is, a website that sells goods or services). When you join a merchant's program, you can link directly to its site. LinkShare hosts a password-protected website that offers affiliates a choice of hundreds of merchant programs. On the site, affiliates can join new programs, get links to put on their sites, and then see reports about how their links are performing and how much they have earned.

When a visitor from an affiliate's site clicks on a link and goes to a merchant's site, LinkShare keeps track of all of the transactions that the visitor makes. If that visitor buys something on the merchant's site, you get a commission. In some cases, affiliates are compensated even if the visitor doesn't buy anything, just for having driven traffic to the merchant's site.

LinkShare also provides affiliates with customer service, notifies affiliates about new programs and new opportunities, and offers resources for affiliates to learn about how to get the most out of their programs.

ConnectCommerce
Benefits to join and operate the ConnectCommerceaffiliate network are described by ConnectCommercelike this:

• Increase your earnings with timely and dependable commission payments
  
• Enjoy consolidated payments across marketer programs
  
• Partner and interact with leading brands
  
• Stay abreast of new marketers and promotions via monthly newsletters
  
• Track results with ConnectCommerceSM, our real-time tracking and reporting technology

ConnectCommercepowers performance-based online marketing and offers you the chance to earn incremental revenue from your visitors. Apply to become an affiliate and access offers and links for ConnectCommerce's top-tier, big-name clients.

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