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Affiliate networks list
One way to find good ideas for niche websites is by joining small affiliate networks or CPA networks and hunting for niches which don't have many competitors. [List updated 2013.]
Affiliate networks - often called CPA 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) or cost per click (CPC) offers from merchants that you promote on your website 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 thousands of products – pay-per-sale, pay-per-lead, and pay-per-click programs. More than 2,500 merchants. It has a strong pro-affiliate attitude and despises parasites. Has lots of datafeeds. Founded 2000. 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 payment, as do all the main affiliate networks. 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. Founded 1998.
LinkShare
Rakuten LinkShare has more than 700 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 J.C. Penney, 1-800-Flowers.com, American Express and Avon Products. LinkShare is owned by Rakuten, which also owns the controversial OneCause toolbar. Founded 1996.
ClickBank
Offers a huge array - more than 50,000 - 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. It has more than 100,000 active affiliates. Founded 1998.
Google Affiliate Network
Closing down!
NEXT: Popular Affiliate Networks
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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.]
kconlin
cool
Jeremy
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.
[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.]
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.]
Is there another affiliate site like clickbank that promotes informational products?
Don
[A fairly new competitor of ClickBank is PayDotCom.com. Allan.]
Don
[I'm not sure I understand your question. Try asking it on our affiliate forum, where's there's more space for explanations. Allan.]
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.]
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
[Sorry. I don't know. This would be a good question to ask on our affiliate forum. Allan.]
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.]
http://incentreward.com
Here is a link to learn more about our affiliate network Advent. http://www.motiveinteractive.com/publisher_leadgen...
Him me up on AIM @ motivechrisd if you have any questions.
www.maxbounty.com accepts incentive sites. I was just told so by them because, the term wasn't clear to me. You need different accounts for incentive and not incentive sites, though.
[A good place to ask that question is on our affiliate forum. The link to it is at the top of the page. Allan.]
[Thanks for the alert. We're no longer promoting that company. Allan.]
[Sorry. No. Allan.]
We would love to be include on your list of affiliate networks - we have a wide selection of real EXCLUSIVE offers with terrific payouts. Many of our offers are brand new to affiliate marketing and are converting very well - we will be going live with at least 2 new EXCLUSIVE campaigns every week this year. We currently have a small handful of publishers and are looking to expand our distribution. Please see our website at:
www.modernvisionmedia.com
One more affiliate Network to be considered - http://www.flexoffers.com - Brought to you from the makers of CardOffers.com, Currently has over 300 affiliate programs to choose from and up to $120 payouts, climbed to 173,000 rank in only 2 months!!! if you have any questions please contact support@flexoffers.com
We have great payout campaigns with great support and fast payment
Here is a link to learn more about our affiliate network.
http://www.PointClickTrack.com
[Thanks. I'll add it to the list. Allan.]
ZoomRevenue is a CPA affiliate network which have more than 100 quality offers tracked in real time. unlike other affiliate networks, our system is custom built totally so we don't depend on unreliable hosted, better than other networks in many ways, and we pay high attention to the quality of our advertiser, as we all know that we won't get paid unless you get paid.
Here is a link to learn more about us.
http://www.ZoomRevenue.com
I tried clickbank and hopefully this will work.
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personally I had very good results with the network http://www.pay4results.eu
They have been really professional and have many campaigns to run. I had a site in Lithuania and i earned quite well with BigBank and Ferratum options :))
Marius
You should include www.pay4results.eu to this list. Top incentive offers with top payouts
Just a note, I was an EWA affiliate. They are closing their doors March 31st 2013.
Thanks! I've deleted EWA.