What is Affiliate marketing?

Affiliate marketing is the process by which an affiliate earns a commission for marketing another person's or company's products.

Affiliate marketing is an advertising model where a company compensates third-party publishers to generate traffic or leads to the company's products and services. The third-party publishers are affiliates, and the commission fee incentivizes them to find ways to promote the company.

Top Affiliate Marketing Websites

1.     1. Shareasale

ShareASale is a leading affiliate marketing network that connects you, the affiliate, with merchants looking to promote their products and services.

2.     2. Amazon Associates

Amazon Associates is an affiliate marketing program that allows website owners and bloggers to create links and earn referral fees when customers click through and buy products from merchant, the affiliate gets commission from, every product.

The Amazon affiliate program helps content creators, publishers, and bloggers monetize their traffic and earn supplemental income. Simply put, Amazon will pay you a commission every time a customer makes a purchase using your affiliate link.

3.     3. Clickbank

Clickbank is both a marketplace for affiliates and an e-commerce platform for digital content creators. Clickbank is home to thousands of digital products like e-books, videos, and software. They're simply middlemen between product vendors and affiliates.

Anyone can become a ClickBank affiliate — it's free (However,counties that are banned can not join Clickbank). When you find a product that you wish to promote, either by searching the ClickBank marketplace or at a vendor's website, you will be provided with a unique link which you can use to direct customers to the product page.

ClickBank is an online platform that allows people to sell and promote digital products such as ebooks, software, and online courses. It is a marketplace for online entrepreneurs and affiliates, who can use the platform to find products to promote and earn commissions on sales. ClickBank is one of the largest and most popular affiliate networks, with a wide variety of products in a range of categories.

Clickbank, is considered to be one of the best and most reliable affiliate marketing platforms compared to Fiverr or Upwork, and the reason is because it is less competitive and if you are newly to the act of affiliate marketing then this should be the best website for you to monetize your time and energy and perform affiliate marketing activities for better rewards and recognition.

4.     4. CJ Affiliate

Commission Junction (CJ), now known as CJ Affiliate, is an affiliate marketing network that connects advertisers (merchants) with publishers (affiliates) to promote products and services.

 CJ isn't too different from Click bank in the sense that they both promote digital stuff, although CJ also has some companies promoting physical products as well but I think the major difference is that you need to qualify and meet certain criteria as determined by the product vendor before you can be approved to promote their products/services.

5.     Shopify Affiliate Program

Shopify affiliate marketing is a program that allows individuals to earn a commission by promoting Shopify's products and services.

Shopify affiliate marketing works by using cookies to track referrals. When someone clicks on your affiliate’s link, a cookie is placed on their device. If they make a purchase within a certain timeframe, the sale will be attributed to the affiliate, and he/she will earn a commission on that order.