If you have a web blog or website that enjoys a good page rank and sees a lot of visitors every day, there is good news for you. You can earn some good money and without spending a dollar of your own. Online merchants or dealers selling products or services are increasingly approaching the website owners for their services. The merchants provide for an program which allows you to register with the dealer and avail some of his services.

Why would you join?
For money of course! The merchants allow affiliates marketing to publish some of their (merchants’) promotional material to be placed on your website. In return the merchants are deemed to pay according to some agreed compensation plan. It is called revenue sharing in other terms. There are basically two types of tasks for you – placing contextual or banner advertisements of merchant on your website or placing of the merchants order form on your site. In the first case you are engaged in mere publicity and thus cover the advertising costs from the merchant. In second case you help the advertiser to sell his products and services and therefore cover the revenue share for the same.

Would it affect your website?
Registering for an appropriate program is not going to harm your website in any way. You will retain your traffic and your search engine rankings. However if you put irrelevant ads or profane material on your website it sure will bear negative impacts on your site.

Which is the best

program?
Well that is a secret which only you can find. But there are some points which you must consider like commissions and referrals, payment of money, credibility of the merchants and various kinds of publicity content needed by the merchant.

Affiliate Networks
If you are a beginner and do not have any personal contacts with the merchants it is advisable to go for an affiliate marketing. The network helps you in joining the right program and take advantage of the marketing opportunities.