Did you know that Affiliate Marketing is the cheapest and fastest means of making money online? So what is affiliate marketing?Affiliate marketing is simply a mutual partnership between an affiliate (which is you) and a merchant (the owner of the product or service). Affiliate marketing is also referred as referral programs and associate programs. It pays not more than two levels but majority of affiliate programs pays only on one level.

Basically, this is how it works — You sign-up to an affiliate program you are interested in and you promote or advertise the products or service on your site or through articles, ezines, classified ads, etc.Basically, the merchant or the affiliate program owner supplies you with a variety of related ads for each product or service in the form of text links, banners or graphics with your own affiliate code. All you need to do is copy and paste the code on your site or into one of your articles or in your classified ads. Your primary purpose now is to make your ads seen by your target market. If someone visits the merchant through your link and purchase something, you get paid. Sometimes affiliates are paid per action or lead, per click and others pay per banner or text ad impressions.

Affiliate program is the cheapest way of earning online because you don’t have to spend a cent to join affiliate programs but you will get more chance to become approved as affiliate if you have a website or blog you can call your own. All the hard-work has been done for you. The only thing you need to invest is time. Just be sure that you choose a well-established and trustworthy companies so you can choose products you want to promote. Some of the best affiliate directories where you can find a lot of affiliate programs to promote are the following:

Commission Junction
Link Share
Clixgalore
Shareasale
Shareresults
Clickbank
PayDotCom

Adult Affiliate Programs

Leading Edge Cash
Men’s Niche
Joe Bucks