What
does it mean to become an affiliate?
If you have
a Web site, you can become an affiliate. If you are interested
in earning revenue from the traffic that comes to your site,
and enhancing your site, you can join one or more affiliate
programs.
An
affiliate program is a partnership with an online merchant
(that is, a Web site that sells goods or services). When you
join these programs, you can put links on your site.
These
links come in the form of banners, text links, and a number of
other more sophisticated types of links. The HTML code for
these links is supplied to you by online merchants through the
LinkShare interface. You can put these links anywhere you want
on your site. LinkShare can help you figure out how to place
your links so that they are most effective.
How
does it work?
A visitor
comes to your site. If the visitor clicks on one of the links
you have put up, that visitor goes to the merchant's site. If
that visitor buys something on the merchant's site, you get a
commission.
In some
cases, affiliates are compensated even if the visitor doesn't
buy anything, just for having driven traffic to the merchant's
site. In still other cases, affiliates can be compensated just
for putting the link up on their site. The affiliate's reward
varies from merchant to merchant and program to program,
depending on the terms of the merchant's offer.
How
much does it cost to join LinkShare as an affiliate?
LinkShare
is absolutely free for affiliates. Our goal is to help the
best online merchants partner with great web sites. LinkShare
charges merchants a fee for this service.
How
many programs can I join?
As many as
you want. There is no limit to the number of programs that
LinkShare affiliates can join. However, we recommend that you
only select those programs that best suit your audience.
Why
LinkShare?
LinkShare
is the most convenient, straightforward, and reliable
affiliate program for affiliates. LinkShare hosts The
LinkShare Network, where affiliates can use one username and
password to quickly and easily find programs they want to join
from among the 400 merchants who have affiliate programs
through LinkShare. LinkShare is a trusted third party offering
the most accurate tracking in the industry.
How
do I begin joining Programs?
Once you
join LinkShare, we will give you a username and password. You
can go to www.linkshare.com and use your new username and
password to log in. Then you can select from the categories
listed on the main page or in the Join section of the
interface to find the types of programs that interest you.
What
does LinkShare do for affiliates?
LinkShare
hosts a password-protected Web site that offers affiliates a
choice of hundreds of merchants' programs. On the site,
affiliates can join new programs, get links to put on their
sites, and get reports about how their links are performing
and how much they have earned.
Whenever
a visitor from an affiliate's site clicks on a link and goes
to a merchant's site, LinkShare keeps track of all of the
transactions that the visitor makes on that merchant's site.
LinkShare reminds the merchant when it owes money to an
affiliate and makes sure that the affiliate is credited and
paid.
LinkShare
also takes care of much the communication between the merchant
and the affiliate, and provides the affiliate with customer
service. LinkShare notifies the affiliate about new programs
and new opportunities, and offers resources for affiliates to
learn about how to get the most out of their programs.
What
percentage of the sale do I get from a merchant?
It varies
from merchant to merchant. When you join programs, you are
given the details about the kind or kinds of compensation that
merchant is offering.
How
do I know how much the merchant owes me?
You can see
a daily update of how much you are owed. Just log in and check
the quick report or any of the other sixteen detailed reports
that are available.
How
do I get the code for the links I put on my site? Does the
merchant send it to me? Do I go to the merchant's site to get
it?
You can get
the HTML code for your links right on the LinkShare site. All
you have to do is copy the code from LinkShare and paste it
into your own HTML pages.
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