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Article #115: The Two Sides of Affiliate Networks

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Almost everybody involved in e-business the merchant. Being a part of these
and online marketing is aware of the networks provide a lot of assistance and
concept of affiliate marketing. It has convenience to the merchant. He has easy
proved to be one of the most powerful access to a number of prospective
tools of Internet marketing and has affiliates who are willing to take up his
managed to earn a fairly good reputation programme. Merchants are saved from the
as a marketing instrument that has been trouble of going out and looking for
effective in diverting quality traffic affiliates. Monitoring the progress of
and improving page ranks. It does not the affiliate programme also becomes easy
require much investment, because it and the entire campaign becomes simpler
basically involves marketing products and manageable.
produced by others. The immense The other side of such networks can be
popularity and growth of affiliate that the overall cost of the merchant
marketing has led to the inception of gets escalated and he is not able to
affiliate networks. maximise profits, since he has to pay the
These networks act as a link between the affiliate network as well as the
merchants and the affiliates. Along with affiliate. Apart from this, not all
providing a choice to the merchants as networks behave responsibly and track
well as the affiliates, such networks sales and leads generated from the
also offer a number of affiliate affiliate programme.
programmes for affiliates to choose from. The final choice to choose one of these
Despite the popularity and success of networks as a medium to promote one's
these networks, some merchants still are affiliate programme ultimately depends
wary about the credibility of the upon the merchant. He has to decide what
networks and the deals and other services works best for him and his website. Even
provided by them. They prefer dealing if he chooses to use the services of
with the advertiser directly, rather than these networks, he should be extremely
through a third party. careful and should gain thorough
Like all other things, even these knowledge about the network's track
networks have their own advantages and record and credibility.
disadvantages from the point of view of






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