Affiliate Programs

The idea of an affiliate program is that a company encourages a developer to send traffic for their retail sales, and a minute commission fee is given out for sales rendered. As someone who has done a little work on the Web, I occasionally receive some profit with affiliate programs like Amazon. They are pretty easy to sign up for and set up, and it is somewhat possible to do this for Android.

I say “somewhat” because I looked around online, and it doesn’t appear that Android is set up well for affiliate programs. Like most users, I find that awfully strange. After all, Apple has an iTunes affiliate program that is different depending on your region. In the United States, it is Linkshare.

Unlike iOS, there really isn’t much ...

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