Affiliate marketing is an Internet-based marketing practice in which a business rewards one or more affiliates for each visitor or customer brought about by the affiliate's marketing efforts.

Affiliate marketing is also the name of the industry where a number of different types of companies and individuals are performing this form of Internet marketing, including affiliate networks, affiliate management companies, and in-house affiliate managers, specialized third party vendors, and various types of affiliates/publishers who promote the products and services of their partners.

Affiliate marketing overlaps with other Internet marketing methods to some degree, because affiliates often use regular advertising methods. Those methods include organic search engine optimization, paid search engine marketing, e-mail marketing, and in some sense display advertising. On the other hand, affiliates sometimes use less orthodox techniques, such as publishing reviews of products or services offered by a partner. [ Wikipedia ]

Web Resources

• AffiliateTips.com
  Find the best affiliate programs.
  http://www.affiliatetips.com/
   
• Affiliate programs - Learn from an affiliate marketing veteran
  
  http://www.associateprograms.com/
   
• Commission Junction - A Global Leader in Affiliate Marketing
  
  http://www.cj.com/
   
• Affiliate Marketing - Affiliate Programs - Best Affiliate Networks
  
  http://bblmedia.com/
   
• 5 Star Affiliate Marketing Blogs
  
  http://affiliate-blogs.5staraffiliateprograms.com/
   
• Affiliate Manager Guide
  
  http://www.affiliatemanager.net/
   
• Affiliate Summit - The Premiere Affiliate Marketing Conference
  
  http://www.affiliatesummit.com/
   
• Social Media, Affiliate Marketing, and Random Geekery
  
  http://www.jangro.com/
   
• Affiliate Program Marketing Management and Support.
  
  http://www.amwso.com/
   
• ReveNews | Discussion of Online Advertising, CPA, SEO
  
  http://www.revenews.com/