af·fil·i·ate (-fl-t) v. af·fil·i·at·ed, af·fil·i·at·ing, af·fil·i·ates To adopt or accept as a member, subordinate associate, or branch:

Affiliate Programs

When you decide that you want to make money through advertising products or services through your web site it's time to take a look at affiliate programs. Affiliate programs are based on the idea of you, the webmaster, will place a banner or link on your web site to their web site and you will recieve money evertime someone either clicks on it, buys a product from it, signs up for something through it, or in some cases loads it in their browser from your web site.

While being succesfull with affiliate programs is a hard challenge, if you play the game right, you can win it. In order to even stand a chance you must first understand and use the basics of web site optimization, search engine optimization, and web site promotion. I have a page for each of these that will provide you with all the information that you need.

The following tutorials will help you learn and understand the core of affiliate programs, how they work, and how to incorporate them so that you can make a profit.