For example, if a merchant wants consumers to purchase a product, register for a service, fill out a form, or visit a web site, the affiliate helps make this happen by sending visitors from its own site to the merchant's site. Affiliate marketing with LinkShare is the way that today's leading web sites are creating, tracking, and optimizing mutually beneficial, revenue-creating partnerships. LinkShare provides the network, technology, and services to enable web businesses to find the right partners, create the right compensation models, track the success of the partnerships, and adapt the programs to maximize results. LinkShare makes it easy. The Network is the marketplace where merchants and affiliates to come together to form partnerships.
Affiliates choose to partner with merchants with whom they can be successful.
These links market the merchant's goods or services on the affiliate's site. Site visitors who click through on the link are sent to a specified page of the merchant's site. LinkShare facilitates all aspects of the partnership and tracks all elements of the transaction. Only LinkShare provides the flexibility required by today's fast-evolving web businesses to achieve any objective. LinkShare is the most flexible partnership platform in the industry.