Affiliate sales programs are ways to advertise and sell your affiliate partners products or services while collecting a commission on each sale.
The advantage to this, over direct sales, is that you will not have to carry an inventory.
You just put up the advertising links and that's all you need to do to potentially collect a commission.
When a person visits your site, they will see the affiliate advertising on your site and might be tempted enough to click on it.
You won't get a commission on the click alone, like Bidvertiser or Google, but if they buy something, you can get a much bigger commission than Bidvertiser or Google for that visitor.
The commission structure is different depending on what the affiliate advertiser agrees to offer their affiliate partners, so it pays to check out many different offers.
Ideally, your affiliate advertisements should be in accordance with your market niche and have an added value component for your visitors.
However, you don't want to pick up affiliates who may end up stealing your visitors, as that is a risk with using affiliate programs.
The reason for that is that once the ad is clicked, the visitor is taken to the affiliate advertiser's site and so you don't want to lead them to any of your competitors.
Ideally, the affiliate offers should complement your offers, but not directly compete against them.
To find multiple offers open to webmasters, you can check out an affiliate bank like cj.
com or clickbank.
com.
Both of these sites offer free registration for publishers and can expose you to a variety of different affiliate offers out there without having to research one website after another.
Instead, they are all located in one place, the affiliate bank, and you can sort through them by categories to find some that will work for your particular site.
To add them to your site, you simply choose the affiliate offer that interests you and copy the code offered and embed it in your site.
The rest of the program that tracks who clicks on the ad and how much you are due is tracked by the affiliate and the affiliate bank.
It's really very simple to become an affiliate advertising partner.