An automated electronic program that has web advertisers and webmasters that are recruited are called an affiliate program. Webmasters are affiliates who places the company advertisements on their own personal websites.
Affiliate program ads are linked to the websites of the company and are also referred to as links. Affiliates usually get recruited or apply to referral programs and most affiliate program is free to join. When a customer clicks on the link from an affiliate’s website, the person who clicked would be redirected to the website of the advertiser, now there are different ways to triggered rewards but most of the time it’s when an affiliate refers someone who completes a successful sale. When whatever is agreed on is met, a commission would be paid.
Some people also refer to affiliate programs as an affiliate model. They decide within their affiliate program on which ad or banner they would use to place on their own site. This usually depends on the company ads website visitors are usually interested in depending on analytics. There are different forms of affiliate programs but pay-per-lead (PPL) and pay per sale (PPS) are the most common types. Affiliate programs are the least expensive online ad tool that’s used to drive traffic to sites.