As new affiliate marketer it’s seem confuse with all different types of programs are out there, I just list various programs to help out , affiliate is the good way to make money online.
The most common one is Pay Per Sale(PPS). This is the type of programs you get paid when some buy product from your website, Place link in your site promote it some click on and buy product and you earn money, You get percentage from that sell not the all amount , That what is your affiliate commission. With this program as marketer you need to be very careful when you chose a product, find the one will sell well in your site, otherwise you will get very little return from your money and effort , good product and very well targeted traffic you have good chance to sell your product.
Second one Pay Per Click(PPC), This is kind of affiliate market usually involved with advertising . Instead of recommending specific products and services, Simple just but advertising links in your site, When visitors click an ad , you earns some amount of the money with no any sell. Google ad sense is the most popular online pap program, but there is lot of theme you can find more online, I thinks this is the easiest way to make money online. What you need to do just provide good content on a blog or website, and hopeful your visitor will clicks ads.
Pay Per Lead(PPL).This program you just need to give your visitor some for free and referral the visitor to a product or sell for return and make money ,there is no sale involved, and the affiliate referral commissions are often quite profitable. The visitor will fill out a form or survey some time poll and you get pay
Last one Pay Per Action(PPA). This term is often used synonymously with either any or all of the above. With a pay per action affiliate program, the affiliate’s job is to get their targeted visitors to take a specific action. Sometimes that action is to buy something, sometimes it’s just requesting free information. Other times the visitors have to take a survey or sign up for an email list. The types of actions vary from one affiliate program offer to another, but just like the other affiliate payment types above, once the action is performed, the affiliate earns a commission.