When you successfully refer a visitor to your website to the
site of the sponsor or merchant, you will get paid if the visitor
decide to buy the product. So the key here is to promote your
 own website in order to make more money.

From the above you will probably understand that the essence of
affiliate marketing is to promote your own affiliate site. There are a lot of ways
to do the marketing work. You can try the free methods if you are still a beginner.
You can try to submit articles to article directories to promote your website. You
 will be putting the urls of your site in the article you submit to the directories.

You may also consider doing some search engine optimization, or SEO, work. The
concept behind SEO is that you will try to optimize your site so that it can rank
high in the search engine for certain keywords. You can enjoy tons of free traffic
 from the search engines if you can do the SEO well.