Affiliate Marketing is a wonderful business relationship where an individual or company, large or small, agrees to pay you money based on a certain action that people you send to him take. Let me give some examples: Amazon.com has one of the biggest and longest-running affiliate programs. They will pay you a commission based on what people buy when they come in through your links. So, let’s say you make a website to promote a product. You get traffic to your website and send it to Amazon using your affiliate links.