Affiliate marketing is actually one of the fastest ways to make money on the web.
If you're not sure what it is, affiliate marketing is when you direct visitors to your site to the website of another.
If the person you are affiliated with is able to achieve a sale from someone who came over from your referral, then you receive a percentage of that sale.
Seems pretty simple, doesn't it? That is because it is.
This is a great way for you to make money off of your site even if you are not selling your own products or services.
The upside There are benefits to affiliate marketing such as:

• You can get started very quickly.
  
• There is no investment.
  
• There is no risk.
  

It is great to know that you do not have to pay money to place the affiliate marketing link on your website.
You simply make money if a buyer comes to your site.
This makes affiliate marketing quite beneficial.
You can also do the same by forming a partnership in which another site displays an affiliate link for you and you pay them a percentage of the sale.
The downside There is a downside to affiliate marketing and that usually means that any visitors who made a purchase from one of your affiliates through your site may not come by your site again.
The way to solve this is to capture the email address of the individual visiting your page before they click on the affiliate link.
That way you can keep sending them email reminders telling them that they can acquire that product the same way they did the first time.
That will help you reap more rewards than just making a commission.