7 Tested and Proven Affiliate Programs
Issues and challenges sidetracking majority of intending Affiliates online are numerous considering most Affiliate Programs out there, while on one hand some of these Programs never re-surface to redeem their claims when you are expected to be credited, others want you to promote phissing items that soils your image. Consequently, you have to carefully select programs to promote setting most important criterion on its conversion rate versus its commission percentage.
Affiliate Programs can be categorised along their mode of ad placement and structure which could necessitate you to select your preferred. You may decide to have ad banners placed on your web or blog, You may decide to belong to level marketing and networking, you may decide to have a website, squeeze pages, sales pages for a particular Affiliate product etc. Whichever you choose could land you in your real Million dollars as earnest than expected.
Some of the known categories and their short description are listed:
- Ad Networks
These include contextual ad networks, cpm / cpc banner ads, cpm popup ads / pop-under ads, interstitial ad networks, etc.
- 2 Tiers Program
Programs where you earn on your conversions plus conversions of webmasters you refer to the program. Refer some good affiliates and watch your earnings grow.
- Pay per Lead
You refer a person from your site to the affiliate site, the referred person then has to sign-up / subscribe to something for you to make money.
- Pay per sale
Affiliate programs paying you a commission for a sale. The sale gets generated when someone you refer buys something of the affiliate programs site
- Residual Income
Pays you a commission for every sale made by the same customer. So you keep getting a commission for as long as the paying customer stays with the affiliate site.
- Datafeeds
Affiliate programs that offer datafeeds. Insert large amounts of products into your own site via using datafeeds. These include xml, cvs datafeeds, etc.
More forms are available yet, the major ones are listed.
While many other good Affiliates Programs are out there that I might have not laid my hands on, the result of a personal test on several programs around here left these 7 outstanding programs on my sieve. I will recommend you join any of them with care but without fear.
- https://www.google.com/adsense
- http://www.bidvertiser.com/
- http://www.AffiliateBOT.com
- http://secure.hostgator.com
- http://www.mycommerce.com/regnow
- http://www.addynamo.com (Nigerians)
- http://www.admanage.com/
In my next post, I will focus on Affiliate Programs specifically for Nigerians. Watch out!