All the official websites from governments and government dependent services left aside, the internet is mainly the virtual playground of companies. A company that is up to date has a website on the internet. To reach a respectable number of visitors many companies start an affiliate program. Who can join the affiliate program? Everybody who masters the ability to get visitors on other people’s website in a legal way. Legal means in the first place in other ways than by sending or posting spam. To give more strength to its affiliate program the company can submit it to a marketing network. Many advertisers come there together to find a publisher who puts the ads on his blog or website. To be admitted to program both parties have to respect certain rules. For the advertisers, the rules will be determined by the affiliate network. For the publisher, both the affiliate network and the advertiser will have a series of rules.

More about the advertiser

The advertiser works for the online representation of a company. He searches the best ways to promote the company’s website. He submits the affiliate program to one or more affiliate networks. he uploads banners and other promotion material. Also, he determines in which ways the affiliates are admitted to promoting the company’s website and which ways are forbidden. For instance, Many advertisers can’t stand you to bid on the keywords of their site. Very often the advertiser requires that the publisher has above a certain number of daily visitors on his website.

Who are the publishers?

Since blogs became popular, most of the publishers are bloggers. But any website is good for the aim if it has enough visitors. That is the difficulty, how to get many visitors on a website if there is only static content on it? The success of a blog is that daily till weekly the blogger writes new articles and adds fresh content to his blog in that way. Content is the secret (if it is still a secret) to getting a lot of traffic. Most advertisers have an e-commerce or a website selling services as a bank, schools, travel agencies …

Blogs

A blog becomes more professional when the articles are about a certain subject or niche. These blogs comply for the affiliate program. A blogger blogs about a certain subject and puts banners for an advertising site about the same subject. Visitors interested in the product on the ad or banner may click on it, eventually, purchase something on the advertising website or just exploring the website. The blogger will then be paid for the sales by visitors of his blog or just for leads. But not all advertisers pay for leads, always less is the truth.

Where to start?

Setting up a blog is not difficult, but only attend that you will ever be paid by advertisers if you’re not an enthusiastic writer. You must write daily and not only during the next month but for the coming years! If you have clearly a subject in your mind it won’t be difficult to find a name for your domain.

Blogs without domain will get less visitors because they do worse in the search engines. See more in any article about SEO. You can even start with a blog on free hosting as here.