Usually, this process involves the use of a specially-encoded tracking hyperlink that identifies you as the referrer of the traffic. There is one very easy way to get started with affiliate marketing. If you've ever used the Google search engine, it's likely that you will have seen some advertisements called "sponsored links." On Yahoo's search engine, you get a column called "sponsor results." MSN's search engine calls them "sponsored sites." In each case, from the heading, you can tell that people pay for those links to be published on the search engine. For more help visit to: www.boost-website-traffic.com. These search engines have each set up a nice easy way to relieve you of some money from your credit card, for which they display these adverts for you. You don't pay each time the ad is shown. You only pay if the reader clicks on your ad, which will send the reader to the web site you have specified. You decide on the text of an ad you would like to place, when the ad should be displayed (for example, when somebody searches for "Christmas"), and how much you would be prepared to pay if the person searching clicks on your ad. The person doing the search is then sent to the web site you specified, and you get charged an amount that may be as little as one penny,. Google's service is called Google Ad Words, and I believe it's the most popular of these services. Now, if you had a product to sell, you could easily make money this way, as long as enough people buy your product after you've purchased your advertising. If you don't have a product, you can still make money from the commissions, again, as long as the amount you are paying for advertising does not exceed the amount you are making with commissions. How do you find affiliate programmers? There are many affiliate networks and individual affiliate programmers out there. Click Bank is one of the most popular affiliate networks, also providing credit-card processing services. For more detail go to: www.money-secret-exposed.com. Click Bank mainly deals in electronic delivery products such as electronic books and software, and, at the time of writing, commissions can run as high as for these products (Click Bank claims commissions can be but they take a cut, and the remaining money is shared between the vendor and affiliate according to the vendor's chosen commission percentage). Another affiliate network is Value Click's Commission Junction, one of the largest, which administers affiliate programmers for a lot of household brand names such as eBay. There are many smaller affiliate networks, and there are also affiliate programmers that are independent of any network, where the merchant runs the tracking software.