By John Rohan

Affiliate internet marketing is a form of on-line marketing that is very common these days. There are usually several players involved: the retailer or brand that is being marketed; the publisher or affiliate; and the customer. The transaction takes place within the internet environment or network, otherwise known as the World Wide Web. The publisher or affiliate markets a brand or retailer, or in some cases just a product, and then receives a commission in return for his or her efforts.

The ultimate result of an affiliate internet marketing effort is that traffic is driven by the publisher or affiliate to the retailer's website where a buying transaction takes place. In order to promote this event, the affiliate has at their disposal the whole gamut of internet marketing tools.

The tools available include SEO/search engine optimization, article marketing, paid advertisement, search engine marketing, email marketing and display marketing. The affiliate can drive traffic to their own site and display links to the retailer's product/service or to promote their own unique product, laced with their affiliate tracking codes which will drive the traffic onto the retailer's website and increase the chance of a sale. For the most part affiliate internet marketing is quite inexpensive although tools such as display marketing can prove to be quite expensive as the affiliates have to absorb the cost for each click on their advertisement before they know if the visitor is going to be a customer or not.

In today's internet environment, affiliate marketing is a very regular occurrence. Often affiliate marketers are marketing not one but several products. Affiliate internet marketing has almost become a buzzword of this generation and the internet is full of marketers flogging their links and their products as everyone wants a piece of the pie. Some people would even go so far as to say that we are in an affiliate marketing revolution as more and more people are looking to the internet to pay their bills and support their families in these tough economic times. With today's powerful computers and the world wide reach of the internet, everything can be tracked. What might seem like pennies for each individual transaction can quickly add up to sizeable amounts of money.

If you are thinking that on-line affiliate marketing is for you, you need to think about what products you want to market and their niches. You need to focus in on a niche that interests you and align yourself to a product/service in that niche that you are happy to be branded by (i.e. Put your name to). A question to ask yourself is: Have you an interest in the niche? Is the product/service you are selling unique or currently in demand?? Is the company/retailer someone who you really want to represent? An on-line affiliate marketer who promotes a product/service on the internet must note that the majority of their on-line efforts will remain on-line for a long time. If you have decided to operate in a particular niche with a particular product/service then it is impossible to erase your steps at a later date. On-line affiliate marketing can and is still a very profitable method of making money on the internet.

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