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Affiliate networks list

By Allan Gardyne | Published  01/3/2006 | Affiliate networks |

Find niche website ideas at these affiliate networks

One way to find good ideas for niche websites is by joining small affiliate networks and hunting for niches which don't have many competitors.

Affiliate networks are free to join.

They can be hard to find. They sometimes call themselves names like "marketing solutions provider", "pay-for-performance network", "cost-per-action advertising network", or even "performance-based online marketing services company".

Affiliate networks provide pay-per-lead (PPL), pay-per-sale (PPS), pay-per-action (PPA) - sometimes called cost per action (CPA) - and pay-per-click (PPC) offers from merchants that you promote on your web site or in your newsletter.

Some affiliate networks allow almost anyone to join. Others insist your site must receive a certain number of visitors.

Some let you see a directory of the merchants in the network before you join. Others show you their list of offers only after you join.

Some of the very small "affiliate networks" mainly just bundle up other affiliate networks' offers.


FEATURED AFFILIATE NETWORK
ShareaSale
A large network offering hundreds of programs – pay-per-sale, pay-per-lead, and pay-per-click programs. More than 700 merchants. It has a strong pro-affiliate attitude and despises parasites. Has lots of datafeeds. Highly recommended.

The big 4 affiliate networks

Commission Junction
Probably the most popular affiliate network, Commission Junction also has its share of critics. Finding and joining an appropriate affiliate program is easy. CJ also makes things easy for affiliates by consolidating all payouts into one check. It displays EPC (which to CJ rather oddly means "earnings per 100 clicks", not earnings per click). CJ is owned by ValueClick, which merged with Be Free.

LinkShare
LinkShare has more than 600 merchants in its affiliate network. Choose from categories such as books, music, flowers, fashion, computers, etc. You'll find some big name companies here, including Dell, Nordstrom, Target, Disney and American Express.

ClickBank
Offers a huge array of downloadable products, mainly ebooks. Because it is cheap and easy for merchants to join, the quality of the products provided varies enormously, from very good to downright awful. It's a popular place to search for overlooked niches.

Performics
Highly professional site with some well known brands. Performics' clients include: America Online, Blair Corp., Bose, CompUSA, Eddie Bauer, HP Shopping, Kohl's, L.L.Bean, PC Connection, RedEnvelope, Verizon Wireless, and more than 200 others. Performics is owned by DoubleClick.

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Comments

Comment #1 (Posted by Anon) |
Check out ShareBucks Affiliate Network
http://www.sharebucks.com
Comment #2 (Posted by Emil Paulsson) |
And don?t miss Affiliator.com?s Affiliate Network
http://www.affiliator.com
Comment #3 (Posted by TonyWims) |
Wow, I didn't know there were so many, geez. How long did it take you to find out about al of these. Sheesh :P
Peace

[Seems ridiculous, doesn't it? Sometimes I wonder if the people who are starting new affiliate networks have done research to find out how many already exist. Allan.]
Comment #4 (Posted by kconlin) |
Its great i never see such kind of network for affiliate
kconlin
cool
Comment #5 (Posted by jeremy) |
Check out LinkTrust for powerful affiliate management and data validation/delivery tools incorporated into one system. It worked for our network.
Jeremy
Comment #6 (Posted by Bambarbia Kirkudu) |
Huge list, thanks!
Some offer "data feeds", I need to check what is it.
Looks like AdSense is not good for me; I have a lot of topics and I want to manage Ads shown, and quality (AdSense looks small ;((
Thanks
P.S.
Will be affiliate in a future. With FLEX-based widgets available to others.
Comment #7 (Posted by Tim) |
Can you please make a list -- or at least clearly designate -- which of the major affiliate networks offer datafeeds? ShareASale seems to have lots of them, but others (such as LinkShare) don't offer them at all. Thanks.

[Thanks for the suggestion. I'll put that in my Good Ideas folder. LinkShare does provide data feeds. To find details do a search in Google for
site:linkshare.com "data feeds"
Allan.]
Comment #8 (Posted by SMITA) |
Another Affiliate network, missed out in the list:
http://www.epurplemedia.co.uk/
This network has over 2000 affiliates & quality merchants, besides a good track record in commission payments & revenue generation....
Do check out.......

[Thanks for the tip. Allan.]
Comment #9 (Posted by Donald) |
I'm beginning to figure out the Clickbank profit model, and I've made $32 this week through very low cost PPC.
Is there another affiliate site like clickbank that promotes informational products?
Don

[A fairly new competitor of ClickBank is PayDotCom.com. Allan.]
Comment #10 (Posted by Donald) |
Thanks Allan! Interesting how that site's organization/categorization of topics is almost exactly like CB's.
Don
Comment #11 (Posted by Shein) |
just wondering. what affiliates should i choose if i wanna query through there products? like i wanna look for a possible hit for the movie 300... or the game "AfterBurner"... something like this... coz i keywords that i wanna like to a specific products in a certain affeliate.. i already done this on amazon... and thinking of going to linkshare...

[I'm not sure I understand your question. Try asking it on our affiliate forum, where's there's more space for explanations. Allan.]
Comment #12 (Posted by Ryan Santos) |
Be sure to check out www.ads4dough.com. We are a pretty new network with over 300 offers. We have a low minimum monthly payout of $50 and a low weekly minimum payout of $1,000.
Comment #13 (Posted by Rams) |
Nice notice for all! Trafficdiffusion.com it comes with innovative affiliate network solutions providing advanced performance-based marketing solutions that help marketers increase online leads and sales. This includes maximizing performance for your ads and ensuring that our network is comprised of only the highest quality websites.
Comment #14 (Posted by Domins) |
Any other affiliates network with naked technology similar to Link connector?
thanks in advance.
D.

[One is MerchantZoo. It calls what it does "link masking". The technique makes it look as though you are using straight links, not affiliate links. Allan.]
Comment #15 (Posted by brendan smith) |
I think our affiliate network is worthy of being added to this and all directories. We have built a very intuitive web 2.0 interface that makes the entire process of pulling, sorting, running, and tracking offers much easier. We have over 200 active offers across numerous verticals and we are open to publisher feedback. So if we don’t have what a publisher needs, well give us a call and we will figure out how to get you what you need. This is Advent by MotiveInteractive.com
Check out our demo
https://www.motiveinteractive.com/publisher_leadgen.html
Sign up:
https://www.motiveinteractive.com/adventsignup/
Let me know what you think.
Brendan Smith
Comment #16 (Posted by Daniel Frerichmann) |
If anybody is interested in German affiliate networks. Here is a short list:
adbutler - http://www.adbutler.de
affilinet - http://www.affili.net
belboon - http://www.belboon.de
TradeDoubler - http://www.tradedoubler.de
vitrdao - http://www.vitrado.de
Webgains - http://www.webgains.de
Zanox - http://www.zanox.de

Further information about the German affiliate business:
http://www.100partnerprogramme.de
http://www.affiliate-faq.de
Cheers,
Daniel
Comment #17 (Posted by Eric Chen) |
The only ad network I have ever had success with was ViralyticsMedia.com. They are more of a site repping company, but if you can get in with them they are pretty solid. Customer support sucks, but they pay well.
Comment #18 (Posted by John Allan) |
Is there a list of Affiliate Networks that still accept incentive based sites? Thanks.

[Sorry. I don't know. This would be a good question to ask on our affiliate forum. Allan.]
Comment #19 (Posted by GBM) |
You should include AvantLink.com to this list.
Comment #20 (Posted by faria) |
Hi i am web hosting reseller i want to start an affialite program for my business can you please give me some informations how to start and wich program is the best
thank you

[You have lots of options. Have a look in the Advanced section. There's an article on how to start an affiliate program. Allan.]
Comment #21 (Posted by an unknown user) |
Check out IncentReward Affiliate Network. Top incentive offers with top payouts
http://incentreward.com

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