A modern person in a day spent at a computer on the Internet can click on from several hundred to several thousand links. What many don't know, however, is that not all links are "equally useful."
Technically speaking, the link itself is an active element of hypertext markup that links two different documents, but in simple terms, the link simply leads to a web page, image, file or other document. If you click on the link, a new page will open, the picture will be loaded, the file will be downloaded.
Hypertext markup is the program code that makes websites work on the Internet. This code is first passed to the browser, which then turns it into a web page for the user to see.
The referral link differs from the usual one in that it contains a certain identifier belonging to the person who created this link. This person can be a webmaster, PR specialist, marketer, or even a spammer. Or maybe an ordinary person. When a user clicks on a referral link and performs some action on the opened page (fills out a form, registers, plays a game, downloads a file or buys some product), he becomes a referral in relation to the one who created and posted this link.
The identifier, "hardwired" into the referral link, is usually not visible to an ordinary user. Therefore, following a link, you cannot be sure whether this is a regular link or a referral one.
Why do we need referral links?
Today, the Internet offers users a lot of opportunities to spend money. Through the Internet, you can buy equipment, order pizza, top up your mobile phone, take out a loan, pay for an online game, and much more. At the same time, competition in the network is often not inferior to competition in real life, and sellers of goods and services are fighting for the end customer who will bring them income.
The more interested people come to the site, the more sales the site will have and, as a result, profits. Therefore, many sites offer everyone to bring them clients, paying them a part of the money spent by clients. Tracking of the brought clients is carried out using referral links.
For example, the owner of a website or blog can place on it a referral link to an online gift store and everyone who follows this link and buys a gift will bring the owner of the site a certain percentage of the purchase amount. This way, site owners can make money from their visitors, and store owners get more sales (and income) for the rewards paid to those who bring referrals.
In some affiliate programs, the percentage of deductions to the one who brought the client can reach 80% or more!
How do I get involved?
To start bringing referrals, you just need to register in one of the partner systems (there are many of them on the Internet) on the topic you like and get your referral link. Then you can post it on sites (your own or someone else's) and receive a percentage for the clients referred to this link.
