Affiliate programs are a popular method of promoting web sites and services. When you join an affiliate program, you receive a special link that’s encoded with your affiliate ID. You then send traffic to the site through that link, and that traffic and it’s resulting sales are marked as yours. You’re then paid a predetermined commission for your sales.

Many people credit Amazon.com as the ones who pioneered the affiliate program concept. If they weren’t the first, they certainly are one of the largest. Today, there are literally thousands of affiliate programs, ranging from huge sites like Ebay to smaller operations such as the ones promoted on this website.