It is real, yes. Some of the high commission rates may seem impossible to achieve and unreal at first, but once you have worked for a while and are generating clicks on your affiliate links regularly, you could very well also begin to see sales occur every now and then. Which in turn could result in payments of real money to your PayPal or directly to your bank account.

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This question was answered by Aleksander Blomquist. He started out with affiliate marketing back in 2008. As of 2020, he is a full-time affiliate marketing guy with two businesses focusing on creating websites from scratch and monetizing them with affiliate programs.