Getting Started: Guide for having your own website

Pay Per Sale

Pay-per-sales programs are called as affiliate programs. You are paid a commission when a visitor clicks on a link or banner on your site, and then purchases a product on the merchant's site. You get extra traffic and sales and they get a piece of the action for their products being sold.

The advertiser only pays for sales generated by the destination site based on an agreed upon commission rate, sometimes it is a fixed amount.

Here are some points for you to consider before deciding which programs to promote:

• Comission rates
  
  Rates vary considerably check them and get the best deal possible.
  
  
  
• Comission types
  
  Pay per click or pay per sale or pay per lead.
  
  
  
• Frequency of payment
  
  Payment frequency can be weekly, bi weekly, monthly, quarterly.
  
  
  
• Minimum traffic requirement
  
  You don’t want your account to be discontinued because you aren’t sending enough traffic to the merchant’s site.