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Thank you. My plan is to rely on PPC. Can you elaborate more on the affiliate concept?

• JacobAldridge 16y ago
  My understanding (haven't put much time into this or implemented so take with a grain of salt): if you refer purchasers to other sites where they make a purchase, you can earn a commission. The most famous example is Amazon. You register. You set up your links to include the referral code. And, via that code, they know to pay you the commission (Google problogger and you'll find articles on using Amazon affiliate marketing through his photo website to earn revenue). (There are caveats, like 'last click' which means they may find it via you, two days later visit via another site, purchase, and the other site gets it. What you lose on the swings you will gain on the roundabout.) There are affiliate networks out there that will set you up with a number of different online retailers. I think most are paying very low amounts, but it scales with traffic. All of these rely on affixing the referral code to the link yourself. Where I got stuck was how to turn user generated links into affiliate links, so a reader could submit (say) a link to a camera sale, and the site would automatically affix your affiliate code to create the commission potential. I found one company (she was based in London - annoyingly can't find the link right now) that had built a system that would do this. Every link on a site would be checked against their database of affiliate marketers, your code would be added, and you could earn the commission. As I say, I only ever got to the early stages and haven't progressed. But if it's easy and ethical for you, it may be an additional revenue stream.