What are the benefits of affiliate or earn and refer program?

[Somesh]

I have started a new blog and trying various activities to increase the traffic and revenue on my blog. The affiliate program is one of the most recommended programs and many bloggers are joining this program to earn a good amount of money. In the same way, I am also willing to join affiliate programs and doing research on the same before joining. So can you guys help me to know more about the affiliate program? Thank you!!

[EKTA TRIPATHI]

Below mentioned are some benefits of the affiliate program:-

1.Performance-based
2. Broader Marketing Efforts
3. 3rd Party Validation
4. Cost Effective
5. Rapidly Scale Traffic

[Shilpa]

It is easy to add our business banners on the affiliate blogger website.

[Lokesh]

Once your affiliate account is set up, then you don't have to do anything except recruiting new affiliates and earn money. A software itself will offer banner, text and other ads to affiliates and keep records of sales too. You can monitor the commission and compile the commissions into invoices.

[Saaina]

You can control entire program by yourself allowing the commissions, by setting what get your advertisers paid and more. In short, you manage every element of your program.

[Keeran]

It will increase the traffic of the website and customers will find your website easily because affiliate marketers are smart enough to promote your business easily.

[Maneet]

It is one kind of viral marketing that we use to promote our business.

[DipakS]

Joining an affiliate program is usually free and can be done quickly and easily through a quick online registration process. All you need to become an affiliate is a website and some space to publish banner or text adverts.
Placing affiliate banner on your website requires only very basic HTML knowledge and is quick to do, so affiliates benefit from almost instantly realizing additional revenue from visitors to their website.
Being an affiliate doesn't require any expertise or specialist product knowledge for the products and services you choose to advertise. Also no need to invest any amount to get income.
When the visitor clicks on the advertiser banner and to this particular website or purchases some products from their website after that you get your commission or rewards amount from them.

[Ritu]

Through affiliate program, you get extra income without investing any new amount of money. This refers and earn, type of income resources are very beneficial.

[Somesh]

Thank you guys for giving the suggestions and I will surely implement the same.