How to make money online step by step Guide

How to make money online step by step Guide !

Affiliate programs are a proven method for making money online (although that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s easy money). Most of the Internet’s large online businesses use affiliate programs as one of their promotional tools. An affiliate program is a system through which you pay other web sites for channeling buyers to your site. Affiliates may be paid for

• Each sale made at your web site (this is the most common form of commission).
• Each time they send a visitor to your site.
• Each time they send a lead to your site.

Traffic from one site to another is generally tracked through one of two methods:

• The affiliate is given a special link with a code in it identifying the affiliate; when someone clicks on that link, special tracking software places a “cookie” on the visitor’s computer and can follow the visitor through the site; if they buy, credit is assigned to the affiliate.

• Affiliate places a small piece of code onto their web pages; when someone opens the page, a “cookie” is placed onto the person’s computer; if that person then visits your site, they can be identified as “belonging” to the affiliate.

An affiliate is a person or company who sends visitors to your site in return for a commission on any purchases made by those visitors. For instance, someone clicks a link at an affiliate site, comes to your site, and buys $100 worth of products. If you’ve agreed to pay a 7.5 percent commission, you now owe the owner of the other site the affiliate 7.50$

A discount link is one that provides a discount to anyone who arrives at your site when they use it. What would you do with such a link? Here are a few ideas:

• E-mail special-offer discounts to old customers—put the link in the e-mail.
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• Provide a discount to members of professional associations and clubs; those groups can
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  put the link on their web sites.
• Place ads on other web sites for discounts at your store. Put the link in the ad.

A promotion tracking link is one that you use to track the effectiveness of an advert or promotion of some kind. You don’t provide a discount or commission; you just use the link to track how much traffic arrives at your site through the link.
Merchant Solutions provides a very simple link-tracking tool; you can create a link and assign a commission level to that link. Any sales from buyers coming through that link will be commissionable. Or you can assign a coupon discount to the link. Here’s how to create these links: