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An affiliate is basically a person or website that signs up to be a “salesman” for a company. You do this by placing banners and ads on your website, or placing pay per click ads on a search site such as Google that steer people to the company’s website, where once they get there, hopefully they buy something. They track who sent them to their site by embedding code in the banners, etc. that tells them who sent the customer.

You can go individually to the different sites you want to become an affiliate for and sign up but that is time consuming. What you want to find are companies that handle affiliate sign ups for multiple companies and then aggregate what you have earned and pay you directly for all of the companies you affiliate with.

The first and most important company to sign up with is Commission Junction as they handle eBay as well as a multitude of others. By the way, CJ calls you a “publisher” instead of affiliate. It is key that you pick the companies carefully that you affiliate with for each web site. If your site is about trucks, you find affiliates that are automotive related, such as insurance, or performance parts. You don’t want womans clothes or cosmetics on your truck site, but you do want them on your jewelry site!

Another good site for affiliates is Linkshare. There are a lot of companies that do this but most have a poor selection of quality companies but these 2 seem to have the best selection of good companies to work with.

You also need to go to Amazon.com to become an affiliate with them since the next post discusses the web site building program Associate*O*Matic which works similarly to BANS, only with Amazon. These two programs will be the foundation that you build on.

For one of the best manuals about Affiliate Marketing around, you need to get the one guide that I found was worth it for the amount of info I got, Super Affiliate Handbook by Rosalind Gardner. Click Here! to get it.

OK, go get Rosalind’s handbook, and then go to Commission Junction and Amazon!

As a bonus, click on the banner below to become a VMC satellite TV affiliate. It is one of my most consistent performers!

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