Secret Affiliate code

Affiliate marketing:

Its an online revenue sharing program where there are three major players:

- Affiliate Networks
- Affiliates/Publishers
_ Merchants/advertisers

Affiliate Networks:

Affiliate Networks play a very important role here and work as an interface between both merchants and publishers.They provide the merchants a huge global market for their products and services and publishers play a very important role in promoting merchants sites.They are resposible of tracking all the transactions between both the nerchants and affiliates and thus ensures to povide all relevant commissions to affiliates they earned as well as ensures merchants not to pay commission for the fake sale.

Merchants:

These are the advertisers looking for some one to promote their business,they add their affiliate programs to the networks.

Affiliates:

These are the publishers who join the affiliate networks as well as subscribing to the merchants programs and thus getting the tracking code there with unique merchand_id,program_id
and affiliate_id so that the networks can easily track the sales happened on their behalf for
a specific merchant site.

The affiliates are promoting merchants sites by adding merchants links to their sites either
through text or banner ads.They are conducting SEO and SEM campaigns to promote their sites and
idirectly promoting merchants sites.

The affiliate networks provide all details regarding the progress like:

- Number of clicks
- Clicks coming through which link(reference code is used to tracking URLS)
- Total number or leads/sales
- Merchants lead rates

and thus assisting alot to stream out the affiliate marketing campaign in the right direction.

Secret Affiliate code