Affiliate marketing can work in various ways, but the bottom line is that someone will track your sale by clicking your unique tracking link. How does one do that? You May ask? Well, the most common way to track is through cookies. When one clicks an affiliate link, a very small file referred to as a "cookie" is stored onto the user's computer. If they buy that particular product, the merchant will be able to see those cookies and will know that they were referred to by the affiliate marketer – you. There are also other tracking methods available (for example, email or IP), but cookies are by far the most popular. Sounds easy, doesn't it? Well, this is where it might get a bit tricky. The theory is simple, but as Steve Olenski of CMO Network mentioned in an article for Forbes, it's not all daisies and rainbows. The start might be tough, and not many might make it through to the end. However, as long as you get in the wind flow, things shoul...