What does it mean to become an
affiliate?
An affiliate program is a partnership
with an online merchant (that is, a Web site that sells goods or
services). When you join these programs, you can put links on your site.
These links come in the form of banners,
text links, and a number of other more sophisticated types
of
links. The HTML code for these links is supplied to you by online merchants through
the
LinkShare
interface. You can put these links anywhere you
want
on your site.
LinkShare
can help you figure out
how to place your
links so
that they are
most
effective.
How does it
work?
A visitor comes to your site. If the visitor clicks on one of the links you
have put up, that visitor goes
to the merchant's site. If that
visitor buys something on the merchant's site, you get a
commission.
In some cases,
affiliates are compensated even if the visitor
doesn't buy anything, just for having driven traffic to the merchant's
site. In still other
cases, affiliates can be compensated just for putting the link
up on
their site. The affiliate's
reward varies from merchant to merchant and program to program,
depending on the terms of the merchant's offer.
How much does it cost to join LinkShare
as an affiliate?
LinkShare
is absolutely free for
affiliates. Our goal is to help the best online merchants partner
with
great web sites.
LinkShare
charges merchants a fee
for this service.
How many programs can I
join?
As many as you want. There is no limit to
the number of programs that
LinkShare
affiliates can join. However,
we recommend that you only select those programs that best suit
your
audience.
Why LinkShare?
LinkShare
is the most convenient,
straightforward, and reliable affiliate program for affiliates.
LinkShare
hosts the
LinkShare Network, where
affiliates can use one username and password to quickly and
easily
find
programs they
want to join from among the 400
merchants who have affiliate
programs through LinkShare.
LinkShare
is a trusted third
party offering the most
accurate tracking in the
industry.
How do I begin joining
Programs?
Once you join
LinkShare, we will give
you a username and password. You can go to
www.linkshare
and use your new username and password to log in.
Then you can from the categories listed on the
main page or
in the Join section of
the interface
to find
select
the types
of programs that interest you.
What does LinkShare do for
affiliates?
LinkShare
hosts a password-protected
Web site that offers affiliates a choice of hundreds of merchants'
programs. On the site, affiliates can join new programs, get links to
put on their sites, and get reports
about how their links are
performing and how
much they have
earned.
Whenever a visitor from an affiliate's site
clicks on a link and goes to a merchant's site,
LinkShare
keeps track of all of the transactions that the
visitor makes on that merchant's
site.
LinkShare
reminds
the merchant when it owes
money to an
affiliate and makes
sure that the affiliate is
credited and paid.
LinkShare
also takes care of much the
communication between the merchant and the affiliate, and
provides
the affiliate with customer
service.
LinkShare notifies the affiliate about new programs
and new opportunities, and
offers resources for affiliates to learn
about how
to get the most out of their programs.
What percentage of the sale do I get from
a merchant?
It varies from merchant to merchant. When
you join programs, you are given the details about the kind
or kinds
of compensation that
merchant is offering.
How
do I know how much the merchant owes me?
You can see a daily update of how much you
are owed. Just log in and check the quick report or any
of the other sixteen detailed reports that
are available.
How do I get the code for the links I put
on my site?
Does the merchant send it to me?
Do I go to the merchant's site to get it?
You can get the HTML code for your links right
on the
LinkShare
site. All you have to do is
copy the
code from
LinkShare
and paste it into your own HTML pages.
Are you ready to sign up yet or do you still want to know more about LinkShare?
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