If you have a website, engage in email marketing, or use browser extensions, you can become an affiliate. If you are interested in earning revenue from the traffic that comes to your site, and enhancing your site, you can join one or more merchant programs.

An affiliate partners with an online merchant (that is, a website that sells goods or services). When you join their program, you can put their links on your site.

These links come in the form of banners, text, and a number of other, more sophisticated types of links. The HTML code for these links is supplied to you by online merchants through LinkShare. You can put these links anywhere you want on your site. LinkShare can help you figure out how to place your links so that they are most effective.