Affiliate Marketing Terms You Should Know

Here are some of the most common terms you should know and be familiar with as an affiliate marketer.

1. Affiliate: A marketer paid for successfully promoting a product or a service.
2. Advertiser: A person or organization promoting a product or service to potential
3. Publisher: The affiliate marketer is the ‘publisher’. This makes you, the Publisher.
4. Affiliate Marketing: the practise of earning commissions for marketing another person’s or company’s products
5. Affiliate Agreement: This is a set of terms agreed between an affiliateand the affiliate network. The terms will guide how you promote and the commission you will receive in return.
6. Affiliate Link: This is the unique link given to you to allow you to refer your visitors to the advertiser’s site. The unique affiliate ID included in the link allows the affiliate network to track the visit, and hopefully the sale!
7. Commission: The percentage the affiliate earns if a customer buys his principal’s product via his affiliate link.
8. Referral: a method of promoting products and services to new customers.
9. Conversionn: when a person you pitched to buys the product/service you sold to them.
10. Landing page: This is just another word for page on the advertiser’s site which you’re directing your affiliate traffic to. In this case, it will be the registration page on nairabet.com.

You will encounter a lot of these terms and even more during the course of your career as an affiliate marketer so you should be familiar with them. We will be discussing more terms in the coming weeks.