Signing up with a companies affiliate program is extremely simple. Companies make it very easy to sign up because they want to have you selling their product. It usually just involves filling out a form with your basic information on it. The sign-up process is pretty self-explanatory but to make it even easier provide you with the following guidelines to walk you right through it.

1)  Username and Password

Enter your Username as you want for signing in ID and Password.

2)  Your website URL

Enter the URL of your main website or Blog.

3)  Email address
Other important thing is your email address.

4)  Your detailed information

Here you will enter your contact information, including how to make checks payable to you.

5)  Payment information

This is where you provide with the details they need for paying your commissions to you. This information includes your company’s Federal Tax ID number or your Social Security number, as well as the specifics on how to get your money to you.

The next few things you can figure out easily,

Click continue, congratulations you now have a affiliate account will email you a confirmation email, be sure to read this email as there is a link in it to confirm your account and activate it.

Login with your username and password you created and click on "Programs". This section is where you can go through and apply to all of the affiliate advertiser companies like CompUSA, Dell, Zales Jewelry, etc.

Navigate through the categories to find the affiliate advertisers you want to promote and place a checkmark in the box to agree to their terms and the box to apply. Then you can click apply. Now some affiliate advertiser companies will accept you right away and you can start promoting them using their affiliate links and banners on your website.

What is an affiliate "ID" or affiliate link?

When you sign up with an affiliate program, you will be issued a special affiliate link (sometimes called a hotlink). When you include this link in your email campaign, website, article or pay-per-click campaign and someone clicks on it, it tells the company that you are the one that referred this person and therefore, to apply any sales commissions to your account.