Monday, April 7, 2008

Where to find good Affiliate Programs?

There are many products and many affiliate programs on the web. It is often a challenge to find a good program with growth potential, to learn ins and outs of it, read testimonials, decide on a target market and integrate your website with the program. Smaller affiliate programs may go out of business or may change substantially to require you to make changes too often or require you to simply walk away from your time and money investment in frustration. In some rare cases, it may be a hassle to get your hard earned commission payed to you.

To be able to steer clear the vast and dark ocean of the web, you need to look for guidence and rely on others' experiences. One good resource to keep an eye on is

http://www.affiliatehope.com

AffiliateHope.com maintains a list of reputable affiliate programs that has been around for a while and have been time tested stable for sometime. These programs are big enough to provide the variety of products and services one could wish for.

Comfi International Calling Cards

Comfi provides various communication services such as international calling cards, web calls, sms, prepaid cellphone cards, voice over ip. The international calling cards have very good rates and allow calls from any country to any country using local access numbers via PIN that is delivered on purchase. Comfi has a reputable affiliate program and provides good tools for the affiliates.

Sign up for Comfi Affiliate Program

Example Affiliate: http://www.phonecard-deals.com

LinkShare.com

LinkShare is a network where thousands of merchants meet affiliates to form an alliance to market their products. Affiliates (also called publishers) place merchants' ads, text links, or product links on their web sites, shopping engines, blogs, etc. or include them in e-mail campaigns and search listings in exchange for commissions on leads or sales. LinkShare provides the necessary tools, banners, links, and data feeds to the affiliates for their use.

Sign up for LinkShare Affiliate Program

Art.com

The Art.com Affiliate Program is a fantastic way to make money with your web site.
Art.com has over 100,000 prints, posters and photographs from many categories including fine art, sports, movies, music, celebrities and more. All you have to do is link to Art.com images on your website and you’ll earn 25-30% commission on all sales through the website.

Art.com also offers state of the art custom framing giving you the opportunity to earn greater commissions on framed prints.

They offer a range of linking tools that automatically generate html for products chosen and comprehensive reports to help you track your performance.

Sign up for Art.com Affiliate Program

AllPosters.com

AllPosters has an affiliate program that pays 25% or more to it’s affiliates. AllPosters.com has thousands of posters for sale in hundreds of categories such as photography, art, sports, movies, music, travel, nature, humor and more.. Affiliates can advertise using banner links that AllPosters provides or they can use data feeds supplied by AllPosters as text or XML downloads.

Sign up for AllPosters.com Affiliate Program

Example Affiliate: http://www.viewposters.com

Affiliate Programs

What are they?

Affiliate programs allow you, me and others to sign up to promote good and services of the vendors and receieve commissions on sales. They are one of the most straightforward ways of making money online.

How does it work?

Affiliate programs online detect the refering website when a visitor reaches their online store. If a purchase occurs, the referring website account is credited. The tracking is usually done via special url that contains the affiliate's account id. After the visitor arrives to the vendor site, usually a cookie is set to associate this visitor with the particular affiliate, so that a future sale can be credited to the correct affiliate, even if no sale takes place immediately. The tracking cookie usually expiresin a month, or it can expire in a day, depending on the affiliate program. For example, nowadays Amazon's Affiliate program cookies expire in a day.

How to get started?

Most Affiliate programs provide relevant banners, product links for the affiliates to display. Some sophisticated programs may make product data available. These may be huge in volume and usually requires expert programing skills and provides utmost flexibility and content management opportunities for the affiliates. A beginner can get started by displaying ready to embed product links and get familiar with the products and services being offered and perhaps develop more involved strategies and software to integrate with the affiliate program into his/own own website.