What Is Affiliate Marketing and How It Makes Money
IntroductionAffiliate marketing is a performance-based business where you promote products or services and earn commissions when people buy or convert through your referral. It’s one of the most popular ways to monetize content, because you don’t hold inventory and you can scale across channels.
Core components
- Merchant: The brand or company selling a product.
- Affiliate: You — the publisher who promotes the product.
- Customer: The buyer who completes a purchase or action.
- Affiliate network/tracking: The platform or tracking link that attributes conversions.
