Affiliate Marketing Australia

Affiliate marketing in Australia is starting to catch on. The Americans have been doing it well for years and have a huge range of excellent companies at their fingertips. With just about every product imaginable to market. Their biggest players include clickbank, linkshare, commission junction and amazon.
Much of these programmes don't suit an Australian readership but companies have seen the impact affiliate marketing has on the internet and Australian programmes such as Clixgalore and Commission monster are emerging.

So how does affiliate marketing work?
Affiliate marketing put simply means - if you refer someone to a product/company they reward you by paying a referral fee. You do not need to be involved in processing of the order or the payment, the referral alone will get you an affiliate payment.

Do I need a website to use affiliate marketing?
No not necessarily. You can advertise products in classifieds, online directories, forum signatures, via emails or google adwords etc

I have a website, how do I make money from affiliate links?
When you join as an affiliate you will be given a personal id or code that is trackable back to you. You place the special code/links on your site. The better your information, images and details about a product the higher chance of a click through and potential sale. You then get paid if a sale is made or with some programmes you get paid just for the click thru.

If you are interested in joining as a merchant or affiliate visit Clixgalore and Commission monster are emerging.

To see an example of sites using affiliate links visit www.byokids.com.au and www.shop-online.net.au