Internet Marketing Support Center

You may be wondering how internet marketing works. You promote or recommend a product to an internet surfer and they make a purchase as a result of the information you have provided. How do you get paid? Well let me tell you it’s quite ingenious. When a potential customer clicks on one of your promotional links a cookie is placed on their computer which identifies you as the promoter. This stays active for anything between 7 & 90 days - sometimes longer. If a purchase is made within the lifetime of the cookie for the product you promoted you get paid.

The cookie is tracked by an affiliate network and they are responsible for paying the merchant and paying you. So, which affiliate networks should you join? Well I’d strongly recommend you start with Clickbank the market leader for information products. When you start making money through Clickbank you can spread your wings a bit and look at Commission Junction & Linkshare. Clickbank alone will keep you busy for months and many of the products in their database provide additional resources to help internet marketers to help with their promotions.

Affiliate Networks are free to join.and really, you should only join one when you first start out as it takes time becoming familiar with all the offerings.

So at it’s most simple level you now know how internet marketing works. You choose a product to promote from an affiliate network, promote it and if someone buys as a result of your promotion you get paid. We’ll look extensively at promotion at a later stage. For now though, sign up with either Clickbank (recommended option) Commission Junction or Linkshare.