What is an "affiliate?"?
Question:
like a button thing that connects one site to another...
Its a scheme that people use to get cheap advertising. Usually affiliates send a few sales leads to a main web site, and the deals are set up so that there is a cutoff limit. For most web sites that do slow volume, tha means you are essentially giving the company free advertising services
Plenty of info on Affiliate Marketing here:
http://www.squidoo.com/affiliate-program...
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