How to get paid with affiliate program

[quytchua]

CPM = Cost Per Thousand Impressions
CPC = Cost Per Click
CPA = Cost Per Action (Maybe per signup, per lead etc..)
CPL = Cost Per Lead
CPS = Cost Per Sale
CTR = Click Through Rate

CPM= cost per impressions or amount of visitors. So say someone was paying 0.5 a visitor if you got 10 people to visit your web and click on that offer you would get $5

CPC= Cost per click. Sometimes having to do with traffic sites or pay per click search engines this is the amount of money you pay per click of a link or banner to a web site.

CPL= cost per lead. Someone clicks on a banner and signups to the advertiser or sponsor and you gte paid per sign-up.

CPS = Cost Per Sale: affiliates are paid a percentage or flat fee of sales transactions that result from traffic they send to you from their websites.

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[edited by: tedster at 5:07 pm (utc) on Sep. 5, 2004]

[sadelb]

which one works the best?

[ScottMN]

I think the CPA or CPS work the best because everyone wins this way. The affiliate is encouraged to send quality traffic and the affiliate program is motivated to make the traffic convert. It's a win-win situation.

[wellzy]

As an affiliate I prefer the CPS. I think both parties make out well in this situation. You will only be sent traffic that is pretty much ready to buy.

wellzy

[sadelb]

On your websites, can you post strictly the products rather then banners or ads....the way my website is set up, i only want to post the products but I feel that cj.com and other third parties dont have every product available.... What if I only want to show, for example,, the best sunglasses out right now... not the ones that cj shows... can i post that product with the tracking number so I can get credit... I havent affiliated anything yet since I want to know that I can definitely just add any product i would like to my site (which fits my site to the best it could fit it)... i hope I was clear

ben

[wellzy]

I only post products also. I optimize pages around them for good traffic.

wellzy

[sadelb]

Can you add any product you would like and just add the tracking code to each one or did you need permission to add each individual product.

[FromRocky]

quytchua,
Welcome to Webmaster world.

quytchua ---> Camngot

[baggiho]

I prefer to use CPM. It is fair to webmasters.

[wellzy]

I would never sign up with a program that uses CPM. I like to see results for actual sales I have generated.

[tsinoy]

hi folks... have you ever tried cpm so that you get loads of traffic to your site? anyone tried this in the past?

[sean]

baggiho, you make more from CPM than either CPC or CPA?