Squidoo Affiliate Marketing

What is affiliate marketing?

And how does it work?

Put simply, affiliate marketing is placing information about products or services on the internet, and when your efforts lead to a sale you get paid a commission.

Sales are tracked via special links that identify which affiliate generated the sale. When a customer clicks on an advertisement and visits the vendor's site, the software tracks the consumers visit back to the affiliate and credits him or her with any sales.

Depending on the program, the website will pay a commission to affiliate even if the consumer purchases the product a few weeks or months after their initial visit.

Affiliate marketing is a business you can start in your spare time, at no cost, assuming you already have access to an internet connected computer.