What does it mean to become an affiliate?
If you have a Web site, you can become an affiliate. If you are interested in
earning revenue from the traffic that comes to your site, and enhancing your
site, you can join one or more affiliate programs.

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 rom merchant to
fmerchant 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.com 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? Then you should click here Join LinkShare Today!