Affiliate marketing 101
Author: daniWeb designer/front-end web developer who hugs trees, loves animals, and is totally addicted to social media. :) Find me @ danimcdaniel.com or tweet me @dani!
If you have a website, blog, or an email address, you can be an affiliate marketer. Affiliate marketing is a simple way to make money on the internet. All you have to do is find a product or service you want to sell and sign up for their affiliate program. From there you place text ads or image banners on your website, blog, or include one in emails you send and when people buy the product or use the service you get a percentage of the sale. These commissions range from 5% to $500 and up, per sale. The earnings are limitless! The easiest way to get started is to join a site like Commission Junction or Linkshare. These sites offer thousands of products and services to promote. Here are a few links to get you started…
Learn more about affiliate marketing
- Mommy’s Place – TONS of affiliate marketing tools, tips, ebooks, and more, definitely worth checking out!
- AMWSO – your gateway to both affiliate partners and merchant affiliate programs.
- Affiliate Marketing Guide – Get connected to the affiliate community with industry news, feature articles, forum discussions, and helpful affiliate resources
- Affiliate Tip – free resource to help affiliate marketers with affiliate programs
- a best web – #1 affiliate marketing forum
- Marketing Fan – internet marketing news and tips
- Life Tips – 111 affiliate marketing tips
- Affiliate Lesson – Daily affiliate marketing lesson
Affiliate Program Companies
These are companies that have thousands of affiliate programs to choose from and all of your chosen programs can be tracked through one place for easy access.
- OfferForge – Make money online with OfferForge, affiliates include lifelock, stamps.com, skype, Starbucks, and more!
- Fusion Quest – Over 45,000 affiliates strong!
- Affiliate Future – Use your spare advertising space to make money!
- ClixGalore – Earn Commission For Life!
- LinkShare – find popular brands such as PetsMart, Gaiam, and hundreds more!
- ShareaSale – join over 2000 different affiliate programs with real-time reporting and on time payments
- Commission Junction – join and manage hundreds of affiliate programs in one place
- Affiliate Seeking – large directory of all types of affiliate programs
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Nice list of affiliate programs, LinkShare, ShareAsale and CJ are my favourites. nice design on your blog btw I’m defiantly coming back.
Great resources you provided; you missed out on alot though such as the most popular affiliate programs ( Clickbank, NBA etc. )
Great post nevertheless
Great blog, and an interesting post. I personallky would not recommend those particluar affiliate programs, as they are low conversion and low commission.
I tend to stick to 50 to 75% commissions products, and I also love the casinos as they pay every month based on how much the person you refer deposits, and they are attached to your account for life.
I have specialized in casinos, as they are the highest paying of all affiliate systems.
I have 10 years in affiliate marketing, and could go on forever here, but we just don’t have the room!
Great blog, keep it up!
Cheers,
Ron
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Can anyone Guide what are teh best affiliate programs on the net
I found your blog on google and read a few of your other posts. I just added you to my Google News Reader. Keep up the good work. Look forward to reading more from you in the future. Thank you
Nice way to put your own links on here!
Thank for the tips!
I’m a beggining blogger, and I need other tips on how to transform my Wordpress blog to look like a real website, like yours… Can you hint us on that?
Thanks! I’ll subscribe to your RSS !
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Yes, affiliate programs are great way how to monetize your weblog or website. If you join some in-house affiliate program you can earn even more than with PPC because all the budget for the acquiring the customer is paid to the affiliate and nothing gets to third party companies.