Saturday, August 04, 2007

What Are Pay Per Sale Affiliate Programs?

Author: Jonathan White

A Pay per Sale is an affiliate program that allows you to get
revenue from your website by showing a banner ad from various
merchants. When a visitor comes to your site they can see your
affiliate program because you want to place your ads in very
good location so other users can see them as well. When the user
clicks on the ad and purchases the item that is being offered to
them you get paid for every sale you make. How much you make all
depends on what the terms of agreement are with your affiliate
network.

There are so many different categories to choose from in the
Pay per Sale affiliate programs. There are Art, Books, CD/Music,
Flowers, Gift Ideas, Magazines, Cars, Sports, Travel, Toys, Two
Tier Income, Web Marketing and Web Tools just to name a few.
Some of these programs all depend on which network you choose by
they can offer as little as 5 percent to 25 percent they are all
different. Be careful because some of these programs may have a
special condition.

For example, there are few programs that offer you a commission
of $10 no matter how much the user spends from $10 to $500, the
commission is the same but the condition to this program is that
the customer must be a first time user. If the user is a repeat
customer then you don't receive the commission. Make sure you
read the terms very carefully.

Some of the best-rated programs are ShareASale (
http://www.affiliateseeking.com/affiliate-program/519.html ),
Commission Junction, Hosting.com, Amazon, etc. Do your research
before you join any of these just to make sure they are the
right for your site. These programs are free to join but there
may be some requirements in terms of how many visitors your site
gets at the time of you signing up for them. Some networks may
want at least 1000 visitors to the site before they give you an
account. This is to ensure that you make money as well as they
do. No traffic means no sales.

Make sure because you are using the Pay per Sale option that
you market the products well. Place them in a very high visible
spot on the first page of your site. Even if a user may not stay
to look at more pages if they see the ad and they like what they
see they will buy.


About The Author: Jonathon White works for an affiliate
programs directory that includes pay per sale (
http://www.affiliateseeking.com/pay-per-sale.html ) & other
affiliate programs. Also includes affiliate tracking software (
http://www.affiliateseeking.com/affiliate-software/1.html ).