An affiliate network acts as a liaison between the merchants and your website. Affiliate network offers tracking and management solutions for maintaining an affiliate program such as ad or link tracking, identifying returning custormers, commission calculation and so on. This can be an especially good method for SME or any companies that do not want to invest in and manage complicate affiliate programs by themselves. It is also good for web masters just starting in the advertising market because it is extremely difficult to find individual advertisers on your own. The hardware and software needed to run and track an advertising campaign is all taken care of by the affiliate network.

Some of the major affiliate networks are Commission Junction, LinkShare.com, Clickbank. You may also want to check out this newer and interesting affiliate network: shareasale.

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