Affiliate marketing is a popular form of online referral marketing. Typically an affiliate is a publisher who promotes products or services from online merchants in exchange for a commission whenever a customer makes a purchase from one of their links.
While it is relatively easy to become an affiliate, there are a lot of technical considerations for everything to work smoothly. This process is generally managed by an affiliate network that acts as an intermediary between the affiliates and merchants to ensure both parties are trustworthy.
In this section we cover some of the tools and strategies used by merchant partners, affiliate networks, and super-affiliates to achieve affiliate marketing success.
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