Storefront: prefabricated HTML page for affiliates that displays new or specialized products with integrated affiliate links.
Super Affiliates: those small percentage of sites - the top 1% of affiliates, based on performance and earnings - that generate the lions share of the revenue for your program. They are born marketers and are very successful with the affiliate program they promote from their sites
Targeted Marketing: offering the right offer to the right customer at the right time.
Tracking Method: the way that a program tracks referred sales, leads or clicks. The most common are by using a unique web address (URL) for each affiliate, or by embedding an affiliate ID number into the link that is processed by the merchant's software. Some programs also use cookies for tracking.
Text Link: link that is not accompanied by a graphical image.
Two-tier: affiliate marketing model that allows affiliates to sign up additional affiliates below themselves, so that when the second tier affiliates earn a commission, the affiliate above them also receives a commission. Two-tier affiliate marketing is also known as MLM (Multilevel Marketing).
Viral Marketing: the rapid adoption of a product or passing on of an offer to friends and family through word-of-mouth (or word-of-email) networks. Any advertising that propagates itself the way viruses do.