What are affilate programs? Affiliate programs enable affiliates to leverage their traffic and customer base in order to profit from e-commerce while merchants benefit from increased exposure and sales. So what does that mean? It means comapnies will pay good money for you to promote their site or their product. Which is awesome for you. Most advertiser will pay on a Pay Per Action basis. The action may be a click, a lead, sale, sign up, download, ect. Here are some affialte programs.