Affiliate Marketing Secrets

I googled my name and I instantly got my full name, address (with map), landlord and other people affiliated with me…All on one page….I DON’T HAVE a Facebook, I DON’T HAVE a twitter and I use fake names for my email addresses and things of that nature…Not only that, but I specifically told my phone company verizon.. TWICE…that I didn’t want my number listed….How did this happen and how do I have my info removed from the internet?

Perhaps the simplest way to explain affiliate marketing is that it is a way of making money online whereby you as a publisher are rewarded for helping a business by promoting their product, service or site.
There are a number of forms of these types of promotions but in most cases they involve you as a publisher earning a commission when someone follows a link on your blog to another site where they then buy something.
Other variations on this are where you earn an amount for referring a visitor who takes some kind of action – for example when they sign up for something and give an email address, where they complete a survey, where they leave a name and address etc.
Commissions are often a percentage of a sale but can also be a fixed amount per conversion.
Conversions are generally tracked when the publisher (you) uses a link with a code only being used by you embedded into it that enables the advertiser to track where conversions come from (usually by cookies). Other times an advertiser might give a publisher a ‘coupon code’ for their readers to use that helps to track conversions.