Beginner’s Affiliate Guide
What are Affiliate Programs?
Affiliate programs are used by merchants to encourage people to promote their product or service to others in exchange for a fee or commission.
Where can I find companies that offer affiliate programs?
I’m glad you asked. We have thousands of listings of affiliate programs for you to browse through on the main page.
How much can I make by promoting these programs?
That really depends on you. Many people are making tens of thousands of dollars with affiliate programs. If you have a website or mailing list, try joining a few programs and setup links to various merchants and see how things work out.
Who offers the best affiliate programs?
We will always keep you up-to-date on the best and latest affiliate programs on the net. Our Visitors are enabled to leave comments on all program listings, so be sure to read their input before joining any program. If you’re looking for additional advice, be sure to subscribe to our newsletter to have the latest and best affiliate programs emailed to you.
Join programs that offer products or services similar to your site’s content.
Try various programs before you concentrate on just a few. Find out which programs pay-off more and have better conversion rates. Most programs have stats reports for you to view.
Free products or services are obviously the best programs to promote simply becuase everybody likes free stuff. Therefore, you will experience a much higher conversion rate.
Go beyond the banner – Many programs allow you to use text links to promote their product or service. It has been proven that text links are much more effective than banners, so you may want to throw in a couple text ads throughout your site.
Be creative!
Two things you should never do:
You should never join a program that requires you to pay a fee up front to get started. If you come across such a program, it is more than likely a scam. The other no-no is spam. Never ever spam! If you are caught spamming most merchants will delete your affiliate account and you will loose all your earned revenues.
Well, that about wraps everything up here.
For more subject specific information please look over the Affiliate Program Articles
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