Millions of People are making money doing Online affiliate programs and this section will let you know how to use online affiliate programs to make some serious money.

Affiliate Marketing allows you to make money online with or without a web site or products.

Affiliate programs are a fantastic way to get started in an online business. You can sell them via a web site, blog or email but to make good money you realy need a website. (click here to find out how to make money from websites) The top Affiliates make a great living from this and there are thousands who make a decent amount of extra cash each month.

Affilliate marketing works by earning you commission by reselling other companies products or services. The transaction and payment is handled by the Affiliate Network (there are many networks out there from Amazon to eBay with hundreds of others so there is bound to be a network to suit you).

You don't have to have a product, hold stock, deal with orders, ship and deal with any customer complaints. All you need to do is get people to click on your affiliate link.

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Affiliate links are usually a code with your user identification embeded into it. These links will take you to the website of the person selling the product or service. The code lets the seller know that someone has visted their site and depending upon the affiliate program you will get commisions paid for clicking on the link (such as with Google Adsense) or you will get a percentage of the selling price if the link takes you to for example Amazon.

If someone clicks on your link you then they usually don't have to buy something there and then. The code usually places a "cookie" on the customers own computer and so that if the customer returns and does buy then you will be credited with the commision. The Cookies however only have a certain "life" and will expire after a certain time anything from a few days to a year is possible but it depends upon the affliate network.

Some affiliate networks have 'tiers' so not only do you get a commission on any sales you refer but if someone you refer sells the product themselves you get a commission of these sales.

Your job in affilliate marketing is to sell another companies product or service and make commission on every sale or lead by driving traffic from your website, blog ect to your affiliate links.

There are affiliate programs for every area and you will be able to find several that fit your interests (see Affiliate Networks for ideas).

Affiliate programs offer a low cost and risk free way to make serious money. The reason affiliate programs are so great is that you only need to focus on marketing. All the rest is looked after by the afilliate network.