Have you started to look online for ways to make money from home? Would you like to supplement your regular income, or perchance even break away from the shackles of a 9-5 job completely?
Then there's a good chance you've come crosswise the construct of being an associate before.
Affiliates are essentially gross revenuepeople who get paid for sending individual to a site/getting individual to take an action on other website.
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This dealings can be generated from your own site or by taking part on forums and other portals.
It's a new type of business which has helped some people do very well for themselves
Unfortunately, as with any new field it brings its own jargon with it. So lets get a load at this jargon and explain it in easy-to understand English.
Affiliate
As mentioned before, an associate is a individual that puts golf links on the cyberspace to direct dealings to particular websites. The associate then gets paid a commission when the client buys something/completes an action. They can also be far-famed as an Associate or Publisher)
Affiliate Program
Where a merchandiser (see below) allows associates, partners or associates to promote their products or services and pays the associate, partner or associate part of the money they decamp gross revenue.  This is done by the associate exploitation an associate link (more about this later) to keep track of who they send to a site and allows the merchandiser to work out who to pay commissions to. This can also be far-famed as an partner or associate program.
Merchant
This is a company that sell products or services and uses associates to generate dealings and gross revenue.
Affiliate Directory
A site or company that keeps a database of different types of associate programs that associates can join. Affiliate directories are not organized as thoroughly as associate networks and once sign language up for one associate program you are not automatically signed up for others.
Affiliate Network
This is a site or organization  that not only allows merchandisers to list their associate program/s there but also manages it so associates can participate in one or more programs easily. All the gross revenue from five-fold associate programs in an associate network are pooled into one associate network box.  This is normally paid every month.
URL
The 'address' of a website. It is what people type into their browser when they want to attend a particular site.
Affiliate Link
This is a special type of URL with a code unique to a particular associate (say awebsite.com/&M=18925) This code will stay all golf links that a site visitant goes to, and when a purchase is made, will tell the merchandiser to pay a commission to the associate (aka associate/publisher)
Banner Programs / adverts
This is a program/link generation system where the associate golf links are behind a merchandiser banner on the associate's site. These banners tend to be graphical advert and are normally human-sized 468 pixels wide by 60 pixels tall.
Those exploitation this type of associate link normally get a commission for every 1000 impressions, per sale, or per click-through.
PopUps
Advertisements or websites which open up in a new browser window. They commonly popup when your visitant is on the site.
Popunder & Exits
A Popunder ad displays behind your site so no one notices that it is there until they leave. Exit ads appear once a visitant leaves your site.
Lead
Another name for a site visitant/potential visitant that can generate money for associates.
Referrals
The technical name for what the associate gets paid for.  The referral, or Referral link, is the link from the associate that points the client to the merchandiser site.
Pay Per Click (PPC)
A system where the associate (or web agent) gets paid every time the visitant clicks on referral/associate link and goes to the target site.
The most far-famed example of this is Google Adwords? Which is itself used by associates as a lead-generation tool.
Pay Per Lead / Action
This is when an associate/associate gets paid commissions for each visitant that follows a referral link so completes surveys, downloads or signs up for a membership.
Pay Per Impression (CPM)
Earning its acronym for cost per thousand (M is the in the abbreviation is the Roman numeral for one thousand) Pay per impressions means a system where the associate makes money every 1000 multiplication the page the banner is on gets viewed. Affiliates commonly get paid per 1000 impressions/page views.
Pay Per Sale
A program where the associate gets paid a commission when the visitant/lead you have referred buys a product or service from the merchandiser.
Raw Visit
A raw visit is counted every time a page is viewed.
Unique Visit
A Unique visit is counted every time a site is viewed every 24 hrs.
Text Links
Text golf links are golf links that either describes a merchandiser's product, service or their site. When the link is clicked on it will take you to the merchandisers site.
This is one of the more commonly-used ways of marketing for associates who do not have their own site as it is the easiest to do.
2 Tier Commission
With a 2 tier commission an associate won't only get commissions from gross revenue they generate but gross revenue their own associate generates. How do they work? Well, if you refer a visitant to a merchandisers site, they become an associate and he / she then makes a sale with an associate link then you yourself will also get a commission.
Direct Referrals
People that you refer directly to an associate program.
Indirect Referrals
People that are referred to an associate program by your direct referrals (see 2 tier commission).
Net 60/30
Net means accumulated profits in the world of business so net + number just means a system where you are paid after a defined period. Net 60 programs pay after a period of 60 days net 30 programs are paid after 30 days.
There you have it, now you have all the tools at your disposal to start learning more about the world of associate programs.
