WHAT IS AN AFFILIATE LINK?

Hello again, glad you’re here.

Today I am going to give a brief intro to affiliate links.

What is an affiliate link? Some may ask.

An affiliate link is a unique URL assigned to a specific affiliate. The affiliate link contains and records the affiliate’s ID or username, allowing the affiliate to get credit for the traffic sent to the advertiser’s website.

What is an affiliate? An affiliate is the person on the advertising end trying to get a commission from an affiliate host, or owner of a business. They are linked to the host through an affiliate program.

An affiliate program is an agreement in which a business pays another business or influencer (‘the affiliate’) a commission for sending traffic and/or sales their way.

If a visitor clicks the affiliate link and performs the action that an advertiser pays a commission for, the affiliate gets paid.

An affiliate link looks like any other URL or hyperlink, except the URL, has extra information at the end of the URL through the use of URL parameters.

For example:

https://rn132.isrefer.com/go/tieoffer/a8296/

is an affiliate link. This link is connected to affiliate 8296 as in ‘a ’8296.

These links can be in many forms, such as banners, pop-up ads or messages, reviews, or lists.

Clicking on the link takes the reader to the business’s site.

One of the popular places to get affiliate links is from ClickBank.

If you go to their affiliate marketing place you can find a long list of offers. You can also find them listed in order of popularity and pay.

Here is an example of what their offered products generated affiliate links look like:

https://www.liv-pure.org/welcome-ep?hop=%5Baffiliate ID]

Where affiliate ID is the affiliate marketer’s business ID used on ClickBank.

CONCLUSION

An affiliate link is a unique URL assigned to a specific affiliate. It contains and records the affiliate’s ID or username, allowing the affiliate to get credit for the traffic sent to the advertiser’s website.

When someone clicks on the affiliate link and performs the action that an advertiser pays a commission for, the affiliate gets paid.

 Affiliate marketing is a marketing tactic where an online retailer gives niche website owners the ability to create unique product links (called affiliate links). The website owners must promote the link, in exchange, when someone visits the link and makes a purchase, the website owner automatically receives commission. As an affiliate, you only make money once the link is used in a transaction.