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Affiliate link

Meaning in digital marketing & SEO, with examples

nounCommon term

In digital marketing & SEO, affiliate link means: A special tracked link that a partner shares, so the brand can see which sales came from that partner and pay the right commission.

In Turkish: satış ortaklığı bağlantısı, affiliate linki

How it is used

Used by bloggers, review sites and creators. An affiliate link usually contains a partner ID and sets a cookie for a fixed period, such as 30 days. The advertising rules of many countries require creators to say clearly that a link is an affiliate link.

Example sentences

  1. Every product in the review has an affiliate link, so we earn a small commission.

  2. Sales from her affiliate link doubled after she posted the tutorial.

Common collocations

  • share an affiliate link
  • affiliate link disclosure
  • tracking link
  • cookie duration
  • affiliate marketingA model in which a company pays partners, such as bloggers or comparison sites, a commission for the sales or leads they send through their links.
  • commissionA payment, often a percentage of a sale or a fixed amount per result, given to the partner or salesperson who brought in that sale.
  • UTM parameterA tag added to the end of a URL, such as utm_source or utm_campaign, that tells analytics tools where a visitor came from.
  • content creatorA person who regularly makes videos, posts, podcasts or other online content for an audience, often earning money from it.

This word in other fields

The same English word can have a different meaning in another field:

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