The merchant whose products the affiliates promote gives each affiliate a unique link. This link helps to track who was responsible for making the sale.
Once you've set up your website, found an appropriate keyword-based topic, and gotten your affiliate links, it is time to hunker down and write tons of content. This is where most marketers lose steam, and their dreams of earning millions of dollars every year remain as dreams.

These products that sell well are also in very informative, helpful posts. The more helpful you are, the more trustworthy you’ll seem, and the more trustworthy you are, the more likely someone will buy from you!
Affiliate Marketing uses tracking cookies and a pixel placed on the brand’s site in order to track and measure their partners’ marketing activity. The metrics generated from this tracking structure tend to be more tangible than other forms of marketing and can lead to a highly reliable ROI calculation for the brand, including: Registrations, email sign-ups, giveaway entries Sales, orders, subscriptions Conversion Rate New vs Returning customer Average Order Value Cost Per Action (CPA) Customer Lifetime Value (CLV)