How often do you come home from work and it’s the weekend, but the weather forecast is terrible?

So you jump on-line and look for a last minute short break somewhere like Marrakesh as there are loads of locations like these that are low cost and not over run by tourism yet.

But here’s the problem, you see 500 affiliate web sites and you get frustrated, then you look for the big holiday companies to book your short break direct in stead of through an affiliate company.

Did you know; while looking for a holiday, that affiliate companies can actually benefit you if you understand the concept of why they exist.

Here’s why, for this example I have chosen Marrakesh Breaks as it seems to be a quiet location gaining in popularity for a more relaxing holiday.

OK here goes, for a holiday company to market holidays is both costly and very competitive so they advertise the holidays that make the most profit or break even with, this in turn leads to bookings and they then have your address to send you promotional and discount information at virtually no cost.

However when a holiday company uses an affiliate company it does not cost the holiday company a penny on advertising, the holiday company just take less discount and give the affiliate a small share of the commission, this in turn lets the holiday companies display freely all there best deals on affiliate sites, meaning you can use affiliate sites to find great holiday, flights or short break deals.

Now you understand the concept, lets look at how to find the best holiday or short break for you.

If you go to your favourite search engine and do a search for somewhere you like, for me I did a search on google - marrakesh breaks review.

This lets me see one of the many review sites, here I can find out all about the best resort and hotels, also I can find out many other great things e.g. if I have a family what is there for kids through the day and is there family shows in the evening?

The great thing here is, many of these review sites are actually forums meaning you can ask a question if you can’t find out enough information already on the forum, as you are asking people who have actually been there already.

Once you have found out everything you need, it’s time to find the best priced holiday for you, to do this you need a phrase that’s common to every site that lists holidays and not just a page of advertisements, the way I do it is I use “Prices based on” in every search I do so if I’m looking for a holiday in Marrakesh, I would type this into my favourite search engine:

marrakesh prices based on

You would use the same search but change the location to the location you would like to go.