Internet marketing affiliate program is expanding in leaps and bounds. Hence, expansion of this Internet based marketing principle is witnessing wide range of variations. With such myriad variations, characteristics and involvement of different types of parties, an online affiliate program is found of be of different types. Affiliate business is no more simple enough to be classified into two or three parts. Difference in types of websites that are being created to cater to this affiliate industry is also leading affiliate program to be differentiated into various categories. Another factor which is too causing online affiliate programs to be differentiated is advent of increasing number of industries and marketplaces.

Like affiliate program, an affiliate marketer is also found to be of various types. In stead of leading discussion on the topic of different types of affiliates involved in Internet marketing affiliate program in such ways, let us point out and create a list of which factors are playing major roles in diverse types of affiliates -

Click per action affiliate marketers' network are the affiliates that are vendors' own network of affiliate marketers and they are termed as top-tier affiliate marketing.

Search affiliate marketers do marketing by using pay-per-click search engines for promoting advertisers' offers

Co-registration affiliate marketers are those that include offers from different companies to register forms for their sites.

Affiliates who focus on blogs and RSS for promotions.

Affiliates who narrow down to only email marketing.

Affiliates who promote goods through portals dedicated for comparison shopping studies and directory sites

Affiliates who market by creating loyalty websites and offer rewards to buyers for making purchases

Affiliates base their marketing strategies through coupons, discounts and special sites

Affiliates who develop various types of niche based contents like articles, reviews etc.

Affiliates who offer marketing services through personal sites.


Another prominent variations noticeable in Internet marketing affiliate program is commission. Vendors pay off affiliates following different compensation packages. Usually, being an affiliate, you will be paid on the basis of revenue sharing or pay-per-sales which is followed by around 80% online affiliate programs, Cost Pay-per-clicks (PPC) for just encouraging viewers to click and visiting site. Another method is cost-per-impressions or CPM wherein vendors pay out an amount for every thousand impressions of ad.


Author: M Wali is an expert author of Rupiz Affiliates, a leading affiliate network that caters to global audience. Which is into Internet marketing affiliate program, search engine optimization, online advertising, affiliate network.