This is where you promote or direct traffic from your site to another site where various goods and services are being offerred for sale. If a sale takes place, you earn a commission.
Commissions can be very generous.
The more successful affiliates earn five figure commissions monthly. The real beauty of being an affiliate is that it is totally passive income. It doesn't cost anything to join and all you need to do is put a banner or text link on your site. All the tracking of your sales are done by the affiliate company and with most, you will be able to track your sales at any given point in time. There are a number of companies that promote various goods and services geared to support MLM .