I have been marketing online for awhile now but have never done any affiliate marketing. Clickbank seems like a good place to find products to market, but I’m looking for something else like it, maybe something where I can promote actual products or memberships instead of digital products only like on clickbank. Any suggestions other than clickbank or comission junction? Thanks and please don’t spam this with a bunch of answers geared towards trying to sell me something because I won’t be buying

There are many types of affiliate programs on the internet. However, the easiest ones to make money with are the pay per click affiliate programs. Understanding how these programs work is an important step to making money with them. So how do these programs work?

With pay per click affiliate programs you need a website of your own in order to participate. When you join these types of programs, they require you to add some HTML to your website. What this does is put different text, or banner test ads on your site. Then when someone clicks on one of these ads, they will be taken from your website to a different site. The way you make money is when someone actually reads the ad, and clicks on it. The advertiser is spending money on that ad, and you get a small portion of the ad revenue.

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