Affiliate marketing is a method of promoting web businesses (merchants/advertisers) in which an affiliate (publisher) is rewarded for every visitor, subscriber, customer, and/or sale provided through his/her efforts.
There are many affiliate programs but the most basic affiliate program categories are:
Pay For Visiting Website.
Pay Per click
Pay Per Performance
Residual Income Affiliate Marketing Programs
Pay For Visiting Website :
In this type of program Advertisers will pay YOU for every website you view and for every offer you complete! Additionally, you can maximize your earnings with your referrals' direct earnings and commissions. You can join popular programs like AdBux and AdCash for this type of earning.
Pay Per Click (PPC) Programs :
PPC programs are probably the easiest way for web publishers to make money from their websites and blogs. When a visitor click a banner or text ad displaying on the affiliate's website the affiliate gets paid a certain amount. PPC is used by advertising companies like Google AdSense, Yahoo Publisher Networks and much more.
Pay Per Performance :
Pay per performance (PPP) affiliate programs are what most companies and online merchants likes to use. The companies only pays when an affiliate referral translates into an action like a purchase or a lead. The affiliates will spend their own money to promote the affiliated company's products.
Residual Income Affiliate Marketing Programs :
In this type of programs, the affiliate not only compensated for every customer referred to the merchant's website, the affiliate is also paid whenever the referred customer returns to the site and buy another product.
The different types of affiliate marketing programs would work differently for companies and affiliates, and each would have their own advantages and disadvantages.
The most advantage of this type of programs is you can Work From Home and take it as a Part Time Job. To get success with this types of programs , you'll have to know which one of them suit your need and characteristic most. And then start working with them.