AFFILIATE PROGRAM

In e-commerce, means of achieving greater market penetration through websites who target specific groups of internet users. Affiliate marketing is a method of promoting web business (merchants/advertisers) in which an affiliate (publisher) is rewarded for every visitor, subscriber, customer, and/or sale provided through his/her efforts. 80% of affiliate programs today use revenue sharing or cost per sale (CPS) as compensation method, 19% use cost per action (CPA) and the remaining 1% are other methods, such as cost per click (CPC) or cost per mille (CPM). Affiliate program directories are one way to find affiliate programs, such as associate, commission, referral, bounty and partner program.