Top 10 Best Affiliate Networks

Affiliate marketing is still a multi-billion dollar industry and most affiliate marketers will use Affiliate Networks to search for offers for their websites.

Affiliate Networks are where Publishers (affiliate marketers) and Advertisers (merchants who create the products and services) connect with each other, providing affiliates with thousands of programs to promote, in one place.

Affiliate Networks are generally free to join and have a central database of available affiliate programs organized by category and popularity. While these are simple to register for, some may be hard to get into if your website doesn’t have a lot of traffic or visitors.

Click >here< to read “The Different Types of Affiliate Marketing” and their explanations.

Following is a list of 10 of the most popular Affiliate Networks, and a little bit about them.

CJ Affiliate (Commission Junction)

CJ Affiliate is one of the biggest affiliate networks on the internet. Their website is easy to navigate and provides more reporting options than many other companies.

One great thing about Commission Junction is that when you join and are accepted into this affiliate network, advertisers within the network might seek you out to join their individual affiliate programs within the Commission Junction network. Therefore in some cases you could possibly bypass the individual program application process.

ShareASale

ShareASale is another of the biggest affiliate networks, having about 4000 partners, with a good 25% being exclusive to them.

ShareASale makes it easy to compare different offers and evaluate the best ones based on their metrics. They publish a significant amount of data on each of the offers running. This includes Earnings per Click, Reversal Rates, Average Sale Amount and Commission. They also have quick payments, minimum being $50.

A lot of people say they have had the most success with ShareASale. Whatever field you want to promote you’ll find it through this affiliate network.

ClickBank

ClickBank is a great choice for beginners, as you don’t need approval to promote their products.

In business for over 16 years, ClickBank is one of the largest online retailers with millions of unique products. Commissions rates are generally higher than some other companies, due to them specialising mainly in digital information.

Look to promote ClickBank products that show the highest average commission per sale, just take note of the return rates. If the rate of product returns is 10-20%, you might want to stay away.

LinkShare (now Rakuten Marketing)

Rakuten Affiliate Network, previously LinkShare been around since the early days of the industry, and have around 1,000 partners.  Although this is fewer  than the bigger networks like CJ Affiliate or ShareASale, they provide well known advertisers for you to work with as well as great customer service.

A great feature that I love about LinkShare is the fact that, they will rotate through the various banners automatically.  So instead of having to select which ad you want to run on your site, LinkShare lets several versions rotate by adding a small piece of code.

Affiliate.com

Affiliate.com has been around a very long time, and is one of most successful networks. They have great customer support who will work with you closely. They specialize in Cost Per Action (CPA) and Cost Per Sale (CPS) advertising offers. Their tracking system has the ability to track each affiliate individually and also gives each affiliate the ability to monitor their campaigns and commissions in real time.

It is said to be a favorite among affiliates, with highly responsive affiliate managers, high converting offers and timely payments.

eBay Partner Network

You can earn a lot of money with the eBay Partner Network, by driving high quality traffic to eBay or one of their partners. You will be paid when a user registers on eBay (through your link) and places a bid within 30 days of having clicked on your affiliate link, and also if a user registered in this way bids at an auction on eBay. You will need to have your website already set up with a decent amount of traffic or your application might be rejected.

eBay Partner Network has a great tracking system, and it’s important to set up this tracking facility. This will give you a better idea of how the consumers are reacting to your campaign.

Peerfly

PeerFly is an excellent CPA affiliate network with over 1,500 active affiliate offers. The network prides themselves on their very large, extremely loyal base of affiliates. Their website is much easier to use than other network’s, and have a huge amount of offers to choose from and also have a forum for their member’s.

Offering CPA, CPL and CPS and low minimum payout of $50, with very high conversion rates, Peerfly is relatively hard to get into if your a beginner marketer. However if you can get in, it has some great high paying offers.

MaxBounty

MaxBounty has a quick and easy signup process, and comes highly recommended by most internet marketers. The network has a big range of offers which ensures affiliates have a lot of options, and offer several different types of commissions like CPA, CPS and CPL.

MaxBounty pays affiliate commissions weekly after you receive your first payment, and the minimum payout of $100 and can be paid via check, Payoneer, Direct Deposit, wire transfer and Paypal. They have a good reputation among its affiliates and has received a good number of positive reviews over the years.

Clickbooth

Clickbooth provides a wide range of offers across different niches which has seen it rise to one of the best CPA networks to earn money in. The network has more than 3000 partners and is relatively easy to join. They offer CPA, CPS and CPL with a great tracking and reporting system in place and a built-in rotator that you can use to test different offers.

Clickbooth has some high payout rates for popular offers, and minimum payout is $50 via Paypal, Check, Direct Deposit or wire transfer.

Adsmain

Adsmain is a great network to work with, as only well performing offers are posted on the network. To guarantee quality, all offers are tested by AdsMain before they are listed. They are very selective when it comes to accepting affiliates to meet their high standards of service for both affiliates as well as advertisers.

Good offer selection, helpful affiliate managers, timely payments. Affiliates can earn even more money thanks to the 5% referral commission given by the company.

In closing…

The affiliate networks mentioned above are some of the best and most well reviewed networks in the world.
This top ten list is widely used by the top super affiliates who are making a great income from their affiliate marketing efforts.

The best way to decide which network is best for you is to try several of them out together. Using several affiliate networks at the same time, may take a bit of extra effort but you will learn the advantages one network has over the others.

Hopefully this list of popular affiliate marketing networks will help you in your journey to generate more income through your blog or website.

What is your favorite network?

Please share any experience you’ve had with affiliate networks below.

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How To Sign Up as an Amazon Affiliate

How To Sign Up as an Amazon Affiliate

Amazon Associates is a free program that allows you, as an Affiliate, to receive commissions for purchases that are made by visitors to your website that are redirected to Amazon’s website to buy products.

To get an Amazon Associates account and affiliate ID, you must already have a website or a blog, but don’t worry if you dont have a proper site yet, you can sign up using a free Blogger blog, or Facebook page.. even a Twitter account. Then you can decide what your site will be about, after you become an Amazon Associate.

This is a simple guide to register a new account for the Amazon Associates/Affiliate Program. (For a Brand Newbie!)

Go to the Amazon sign-up page by clicking here  (link will open in a new tab)

Select the country in the top right corner (note: this is not necessarily the country you live in, it is the country you want to promote the products from). You can sign up to other countries’ programs as well if you like, but for now
just choose the most likely for you. Then click ‘Join Now for Free’.

On the next page enter the email address you wish to be associated with your Amazon account.
Then check ‘I am a New Customer’ (if you already have an Amazon account, log in and continue)
Click ‘Sign in using our secure server’.

Registration – New Customers register with your name, email and choose a password, then click ‘Create Account’

Creating your Amazon Associates Account

Account Information:

Amazon will ask for contact information about the person that will be paid for affiliate earnings… You!

Enter your details and click ‘next’.

Website and Mobile App List:

Fill in your Website URL (Website address) and click ‘Add’

As I said above, if you don’t have your site set up yet, use another site address you may have.
Click next and tick the age box that comes up below.
Click ‘Confirm’.

Profile:

The following is basic, but I have listed some suggestions below, if you get stuck.

-What is your preferred Associates Store ID? – You can choose any name you like.
-Your Website List – should be pre-filled
-What are your Websites or Mobile Apps about? – Write a short description of what your site is about, and what you might be promoting e.g books, software. If you dont have your site yet, make it up based on what you are interested in doing.

-Which of the following topics best describes your websites or mobile apps? – Choose the topics of your choice from the dropdown lists. If your stuck, choose ‘other’
-What type of Amazon items do you intend to list on your Website? – here you should choose whatever is closest to what you’re promoting, or intend to promote. Again if you are stuck, choose ‘books’.
-What type is your Website – From the dropdown lists choose what it is, or just put ‘Blog’, or ‘Niche site’.

Traffic and Monetization

-How do you drive traffic? – Check the ways you plan to get traffic to your site. If you don’t know just yet, check email, social or blog for the moment.
-How do you utilize your websites to generate income? – Pick what is suited to your site. e.g I chose Amazon and Widgets so it could be an Amazon affiliate site.
-How do you usually build links? – It’s probably best to simply put ‘blog editor’ or ‘other’
-How many total unique visitors do your sites get per month? – If you have a site then you will know this, but if you are new with no site or a brand new one, you’ll want to check ‘less that 500’ obviously.
-What is your primary reason for joining the Amazon Associates Program? – You can say anything here… I chose ‘To get rich content for my site’
-How did you hear about us – Does it matter? choose any.

Type the characters in the image and click next.

Identity Verification

Put in your phone number and click ‘Call Me Now’ you will get an automated call from Amazon, asking you to put in a pin that comes up on the screen. Enter the pin in your phone and you should see the screen change to congratulate you as you are now verified.

Have a sqiuzz at the ‘Associates Program Operating Agreement’
Agree to these terms and conditions, then click ‘finish’.

Congrats! You can start using Associates Central. Here you will see your unique Associate ID.

At this point you can enter your payment and tax information, or do it later. Why not get it out of the way now, then you are done… and you can begin to receive payments.

Click ‘now’ to enter your payment and tax information.

Check your desired payment info.

If your in United States you can choose what you desire but if you’re in another country, you will have to choose check, or gift card if thats what you want, but checks are better!

Click ‘Submit and Continue with Tax Information’.

The following screen will come up and you will have to go through the form depending on what country you live in, and fill out as you can.

Just follow the instructions in the Amazon Tax Information Interview. They have a little help box…

When done, or if you exit and come back later, you will get a welcome screen like this.

You will now officially be an Amazon Associate! Get Started

Clicking on ‘Get Started’ above… or… Upon signing in at another time, you will see your ‘Associates ID’ in the upper
right hand corner (as shown below). This is the unique tracking ID that needs to be included in your affiliate links in order to be sure you get your commission.

Please note: If you want to participate in other countries Associates Programs, repeat the process up to Payment and Tax info.

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How To Set Up A Facebook Business Page

Facebook is the largest online social network and if you use your social media marketing efforts on Facebook, you could have huge returns to show for it.

Facebook is where the people are, with over 1.5 billion active users. And on any given day, over 65% of them log on.

These numbers alone makes it a valuable website for marketers, whether you’re promoting a service, releasing a product or doing market research. It is no wonder why marketers are interested in figuring out how to reach their target audience using Facebook.

So in reality, you really will need to have a Facebook business page…

If you are going to have a Facebook business page, you should start with a personal account. I have read there are ways to only having a business page, but it is recommended you have both. Note:- your Facebook business page won’t interact with your personal page and your personal information is not public on the business page.

Most people these days will have their personal account already but just in case you don’t, here’s a quick overview for those complete newbies out there.

Of course, if you already have one, skip this section and scroll down to ‘Create a Facebook Business Page’

Create a Facebook account

All you’ll need to get started is an email address.

> Go to www.Facebook.com and fill in the details on the Sign-up form

After completing the form, click the “Sign Up” option… you will see the following screen…

You can skip the next couple of steps (you can always do these steps later) and click next to proceed.

At this point they’ll ask you to confirm your email address to complete the sign-up process.
Confirm in your email and wallah! You now have your Facebook personal page like so…

You can of course now fill out your profile information, make some posts, and also add a Profile Picture & Cover Photo to your page. You can come back and do all of this later of course.

If you need to know how to upload you profile pics, Facebook will help you, click here >> Facebook Help Center

Great! You’re all set up. Now to set up a Facebook Business Page.

Set Up a Facebook Business Page

To set up your Business Page, just follow these steps

1. Log in to Facebook

On your personal page, click on the arrow in the top-right corner, and choose ‘Create Page’

2. Create a page.

Select a page group suited to your business. Each type explained  below to help you select the right one.

(I will be choosing Brand or Product  here).

Local Business or Place

Only select this if your business has a physical location where your customers come to. If you choose this group, Facebook will automatically change your ‘page’ to a ‘place’. This allows users to use the ‘check-in’ functionality so commonly used on Facebook.

Company, Organization or Institution

If your business is mostly run online and/or has physical but multiple locations, then you should select this group. This keeps your page as a page. A ‘place’ can’t deal with multiple locations.

Brand or Product

This type of Facebook Business Page is ideal if you own an online business, promote products, services or brands, or your products and services are sold through multiple distributors that do not have a physical location.

Artist, Band or Public Figure

This type of page is perfect for promoting ‘you’. If you are in the public spotlight and your business is focused on promoting, then this page is the appropriate selection.

Entertainment

If you are looking to promote a book, magazine, tv show, movie, radio station, or any other media, select the Entertainment page.

Cause or Community

If your organization is a community of action that supports specific issues, campaigns or nonprofit organizations, select the Cause or Community page.

If you realize later on, that you have made a mistake in your choice of page, you can always change your page type and category. You can do this after you’ve created the page through the admin control panel.

Moving on…
3. Choose a category

Once you have selected the right group,  a drop down menu appears…
Choose the category that matches your business. You may not find the perfect match, but for the most part, this isn’t particularly important unless you are a local business.

4. Choose a name for your page.

Take some time here as it is the first thing people see when they see your page. It is recommended to keep it short. The general rule of thumb online is that shorter is better.
Note:- You will only be able to change your Page name up until the point you have 200 likes (or fans) so you have a little while to play around with it.

Agree to the Facebook Pages Terms.
Click Get Started.

5. Set Up Your Page

In this instance I called my page ‘Learning Lab’ and this it what you will see.

Here is where you will be taken through some steps to complete some ‘about’ information.

Add a description and your website address, if you have one. I have filled in a demo description and address in the screenshot above to give you an idea. Click on ‘Save Info’.

Next you can add a profile picture.

The recommended size of a profile pic is 180 x 180 pixels. Upload a pic from from your computer if you have one, and click on ‘Save Photo’, or skip this for now, and play around later. For the purpose of this tutorial, I skipped this step here.

Now you will be asked to add your preferred page audience.

I am also skipping this step for the moment. You can too skip this or follow on with what Facebook tells you to do. Note:- You can do this later from your page when you know more about your ‘Preferred Audience’. Click ‘Save’.

There you have it! Your page. It should look like this (without the arrows of course)

Facebook will popup some info for you and also tell you to like your page which is a good idea.

Done! Thats the page set up. You will be able to switch from your personal and business pages with the drop down menu in the top right corner as shown with the arrows above and now you can add your pics if you haven’t already.

To help you create your cover photo and profile pic, following are some free resources where you can do this…

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Some tips for you when designing your photo…
It is recommended your photo be 851 x 315 pixels
Facebook has rules that state that the cover photo cannot include more than 20% text.

Now you just need to populate your page with some content. It’s a good idea to share some things and have a few status updates before you start inviting people to like your page.

So start sharing!

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