How to Become an Affiliate

If you are interested to earn money from your website, articles, blogs, social media pages and your published content online, the first thing you have to decide whether you want to work with any affiliate network or want to work directly with advertisers. There are many advertisers like Flipkart, Lazada, Amazon etc that are offering in-house affiliate programs. If you have good web traffic on your published web-content/blog, you can join affiliate program related to your content and based on your web-users interest. There are number of affiliate networks who have various kind of affiliates programs in all sectors(Travel, Retail, Finance, Games etc).

Affiliate Marketing is one of the easiest and popular ways to make a good income each and every month. As an affiliate, you can earn commission by selling someone else's products or services at your website/blog. Becoming an affiliates is an easy process on any affiliate network. Search popular affiliate network of your region and visit their official website to sign-up as a publisher/affiliate. There will be a sign-up form(application form) that need to be filled with your details(Name, Company Name, Address, Payment detail, Website URL, Marketing methods, target region etc.) and before submitting your application, you have to read out and have to accept their T&Cs.

All affiliate network have some processes to review new affiliate applications. Mainly any affiliate network do check website's web-traffic & content and detail filled by applicants is real or not. Once they will review your application, you will get a confirmation email on your registered email ID with login detail or some verification code to add on your websites/blog. They will assign an account manager for you and you can take him/her help anytime.

Once you will able to login on any of affiliate network or advertiser's affiliate platform, you can check all programs listed with its commissions or payouts. There will be many affiliate programs available on their dashboard but you need to apply for them according your content and web-traffic.

To promote any affiliate program on your website/blog, you need to divert your web-traffic to advertiser's website to purchase its products or to become its member or to fill any lead. To divert your web-traffic, you need affiliate links, clickable banners and text links. You can get these promotional materials from your logged-in accounts if you are live for that particular affiliate program.

Following are some example of Promotional Materials:

• Standard tracking link
• Text Links
• Banner Links
• Search Box
• Products Feeds
• Voucher Codes and Offers
• HTML/Emailer/Newsletters

For your information, affiliate links or text links which will be provide by affiliate network to you contain cookie and based on that cookies they can capture your users session to complete transactions or any registration. You can check your performance and stats only with the help of these affiliate links, so don'f forget to implement them on your website to redirect your web-users to advertiser's website.

Text link Promotion Example:

Banner Promotion Example:

Type of affiliate programs:

You can only get access to get your affiliate links to promote any affiliate program if your website is appropriate for that particular program and you should be live for that affiliate program(campaign). Once you are able to get or copy your affiliate link for a particular program, you will be eligible to earn commission from that affiliate network based on payout type(CPS, CPS, CPL etc.).

To select or apply any affiliate program, first research your target market and identify interest of your website/blog visitors. There are many way to earn commission from any advertisers like based on number of clicks by your web-users, number of sales by your users or number of leads filled by your web-users.

You will get paid for your valid/confirmed sales or clicks or leads or download only and within 30 to 90 days based on advertiser's validation period. You can ask your affiliate manager and can check at Affiliate network's dashboard about the T&Cs to promote any affiliate program and about the payouts or payments.