how to make affiliate marketing work – Day 3: Diving Deeper Into Affiliate Marketing

You are now on day 3 of your Digital Profit Course. Today we are going to learn how to make affiliate marketing work and will see Diving Deeper Into Affiliate Marketing.

• Ordinary people just like us are getting rich with Affiliate Marketing online.
• Affiliate marketing is a way of referring online visitors to someone else’s products or services, and getting your commissions in the process.
• Affiliate marketing works and can be your long-term stream of passive income. (Passive income is an income received regularly, with little effort required to maintain it!)
• All we need from you is :
  • Sticking with us through this entire course
  • Act on what is necessary: ​​”Yes, I can do it, I will do it, no matter what”

Moving forward with our session today, and learn about how to make affiliate marketing work. you need to understand how to make Affiliate Marketing work in depth

How to make affiliate marketing work

The above diagram will help you understand Affiliate Marketing in a better way. Let’s take a closer look at every step:

Affiliate (i.e. You) signs up for the merchant’s (or advertiser’s) affiliate program.

In the later chapters, you will be introduced to a few recommended affiliate programs which you can join. When you join an affiliate program, for every product you’ll get your unique affiliate link. You’ll have your login details to login inside the affiliate program where you will be able to track and see your performance.

Affiliate uses an affiliate link whenever they mention the merchant on their website.

You can promote affiliate links not only through your website but also through your blog, YouTube videos, Facebook and other social networks, email, and other methods. (We are going to cover everything in this course.)

Jack or visitors for example (a normal online surfer) visit an Affiliate’s website

When you’ll start marketing your website (or promote your affiliate link in other ways), you’ll keep getting visitors.

Jack clicks on your affiliate link to visit the merchant’s website

When you will start getting visitors with whatever online selling you are, many of that online surfers (not all of them), will click on your affiliate link to reach the merchant’s website.

A cookie gets dropped on Jack’s computer

When visitors click on the affiliate link, a cookie gets dropped in their web browser.

This cookie will help the advertiser recognize that Jack came through your affiliate link.
Note: This is the technology of the affiliate program you are enrolled in. You don’t need to do anything here, but it’s important to know the basics of how to track online visitors.

Jack completes the desired action on the merchant’s website

The desired action could be filling out a form, buying something, entering his email, or whatever the advertiser wanted him to do. Once the visitors complete the process of buying the products, we say that the visitor or surfer has ‘converted’ and a ‘conversion’ has taken place.

• After completing the desired action, the merchant checks for the affiliate cookie on Jack’s computer.
• The merchant finds a cookie belonging to you and logs a credit for the commission according to the affiliate agreement.
• Merchant makes reports available that show the affiliate all the visitors and sales (or conversions) from the affiliate link.

You can check these reports on the affiliate program after logging in. Everything is well organized there.

• At the end of every payment period, the affiliate program sends the payment to the affiliate for all the conversions (or sales) in that period.

Usually, a payment period is one month.

This is how affiliate marketing works.
I hope you found today’s chapter interesting!
Feel free to read it multiple times to get a better understanding. Even if a few things aren’t clear right now, that is fine. The most important thing is to continue to read through the chapters, and soon you will see all the above steps implemented through practical examples and everything will become clear.