Affiliate Programs

Almost every web site on the Internet participates in some type of affiliation program. This could be in the form of the exchange of banner ads, the placement of banner ads to help generate revenue, special advertising and corporate sponsorships.

Sites like Healthlinks.net rely on affiliation programs to help defer the cost of maintaining our web site. The way this works is that we receive payment either on a click-through basis (usually a few cents) for each click-through from our site to our affiliation, or by the number of page views.

To give you a specific example, lets say we have an affiliation with the Widget Corporation. Our arrangement with them pays us .003 cents for each click-through from our site to theirs. In addition, The Widget Corporation pays us a commission for each product you purchase on that pass-through. This works well but what happens if you bookmark the Widget Corporations web site and for future visits go directly to there site bypassing us? In this case we do not receive any revenue for your visit so it is important for you to use Healthlinks.net as your starting point.