Question

find three commercial sites that operate in three different markets and offer affiliate programs. Write up a summary: What do they sell? What do their affiliate programs promise, and in return for what? Classify each program as pay per sale, pay per click, pay per lead, or another type, and explain why you classified the way you did.

Answer 1

Amazon Affiliate program.

Amazon.com is a global e-commerce website which sales every type of product through the internet and through its app.They sell fashion, books, home utilities, FMCG and many more things so product variety is quite a long list for Amazon.The affiliate program promises a percentage of sell value for every advertisement you make through your blog, website, or youtube channel.The payout is pay per sell basis i.e. you will get profit percentage when someone clicks on your advertised link and buys the product.The rates vary for every product., like for each e-book or kindle device sell you may get 10% and at the same time if you are advertising for a mobile phone you will get only 2.7%.So each product category is having different payout rates which an affiliate can get.

BigRock affiliate program

Bigrock is an Indian website which sells website hostings, domain names cloud services and servers etc.They also offer internet security services for its customers. Their target audiences are small or big industries and sometimes individuals.Bigrock pays commission for every service you sell through your advertising.The amount can be up to 10000 as the company promises.The payment of commission is in a next 55 days basis.This is also a pay per sell type affiliate program as it says that for every sells you make will give you a commission.

Clickbank

It's a website which provides information to people in every type of subject i.e it sells services offered by some people to customers.The services vary in a high range as it can be any type information like dancing, singing, business computers etc. The affiliate program here is pay per click or pay per lead basis.Every ClickBank product has a commission rate that is set by the vendor, ranging from 1% to 75%.As the commission is the sole decision of the information provider or the service provider it varies from service to service.If you are an affiliate marketer and you promote one service so you will get paid if a customer clicks on your link and also after a sell is made.This is the most popular pay per lead or pay per click website.