Friday, September 24, 2010

Affiliate Marketing

One of the most crucial steps in any affiliate marketing business is finding and promoting the best affiliate marketing programs and products.

In an affiliate marketing program, a publisher receives a commission for generating a transaction, such as a lead or sale, for an advertiser that the publisher is promoting. The advertiser provides its ads to publishers and assigns a commission for each action it wants to accomplish.

Publishers place the tracking code for these ads on their Web sites, in their email campaigns, or in search listings. Whenever a visitor uses these links to generate an action on the advertiser site, that transaction is tracked online. If a product or service is purchased, the customer pays the advertiser directly, and the publisher is paid a commission for that transaction.

Provide the affiliate program site as follows:

1. Clickbank

Clickbank is our first choice simply because of its great marketplace with thousands of attractive information products and commissions up to 75%. It has great tracking, commissions are paid every 2 weeks and you can easily see which products sell the most.

2. MarketHealth

MarketHealth, established in 1998,  is now the world's largest integrated online marketing company in the health and beauty industry. It has been our experience that most of MarketHealth's products are in very high demand and we are continually earning great commissions with them. MarketHealth.Com has all the great feature an affiliate program of its size should have and they have thousands of happy affiliates to prove it.

3. SellHealth

Right next to MarketHealth, SellHealth.Com has amazing offers and products that convert extremely well. Their commissions are very generous and there are even contests and bonus cash for high achievers. We recommend them to anyone looking to promote products related to health, weight loss and beauty.

4. Commission Junction

According to Wikipedia, Commission Junction is the largest affiliate network in North America, powering 53% of the top 500 web retailers affiliate marketing programs and operates worldwide. We have had good experiences with CJ and we recommend it, but we suggest new marketers to stick with ClickBank or PayDotCom

5. PayDotCom

PayDotCom has a great marketplace with a lot of quality products to promote and is heavily integrated with PayPal. Commission go as high up as 80%.

We will be updating this list with more programs, but for now we would like to recommend only these 5 programs as they have been tested and proven to convert and earn commissions.