Many people come on the Internet everyday in hopes of making a desirable income. Many fail due to lack of knowledge, or because they were mislead by some “guru”. Today affiliate networks are key to making money online, it can be the simplest and easiest way to earn a dollar period.

An affiliate network plays middle man between the publisher (the owner of the product being sold) and the advertiser/affiliate (the person responsible for the sale). An individual can sign up to an affiliate network such as clickbank and start looking for products to promote. The way this is done is through the affiliate network (middleman). A unique URL with an id is created for the affiliate and the certain product they chose to promote, through this unique URL they track the sales made.

So you would place this URL on your site, if anyone were to click on it and go to their website and end up making a purchase you would make a certain % commission for the sale previously determined by the publisher (owner of the product). The affiliate network (middleman) would charge the publisher (owner of the product) a very small fee per transaction.

The affiliate walks away clean with money in the bank. Affiliate marketing is quite rewarding since most publishers (owners of the product) pay about 50% commission and better, and give bonuses to super affiliates who make 300-400 sales per month.