Develop an Affiliate marketing strategy for better results
Affiliate marketing is a marketing practice in which a business rewards one or more affiliates for each visitor or customer brought about by the affiliate’s own marketing efforts. Examples include rewards sites, where users are rewarded with cash or gifts, for the completion of an offer, and the referral of others to the site. The industry has four core players: the merchant (also known as ‘retailer’ or ‘brand’), the network, the publisher (also known as ‘the affiliate’), and the customer. The market has grown in complexity to warrant a secondary tier of players, including affiliate management agencies, super-affiliates and specialised third parties vendors.
Affiliate marketing use regular advertising methods. Those methods include organic search engine optimisation, paid search engine marketing, e-mail marketing, and display advertising.
Affiliate marketing – using one website to drive traffic to another – is a form of online marketing, which is frequently overlooked by advertisers. While search engines, e-mail, and website syndication capture much of the attention of online retailers, affiliate marketing carries a much lower profile. Affiliates continue to play a significant role in e-retailers’ marketing strategies.
