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Does anyone have experiences with Affiliate programs? I have signed up and started using LinkShare but I am not thrilled with the companies and banners to choose from. Any other good options out there? Thanks

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So if you're looking for affiliate programs, there are quite a few companies that have them set up. A great site to browse a significant number of them is here: http://www.allaffiliateprograms.com/

Most of them have APIs you can use to best tailor to what your site visitors would be most interested in, which will certainly help. I think that's really the most important thing; the success of an affiliate program is directly correlated to the relevancy of the affiliate products/links you're providing.

Hope this helps. Good Luck!

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There are actually a couple other threads about affiliate programs that are good.

http://answers.onstartups.com/questions/2329/creating-an-affiliate-program-commission-junction-linkshare

http://answers.onstartups.com/questions/4650/are-affiliate-programs-worth-it

And others.

More explanation of your situation would help too.

I just started working with ShareASale.com and so far so good. Very inexpensive to start, big affiliate network, great support. We'll see from here but a good start.

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Here are some of the big ones:

  • Linkshare
  • Tradedoubler
  • Affiliate Window
  • Affilinet
  • Commission Junction
  • Clickbank
  • Shareasale
  • Google Affiliate Network
  • Amazon
  • Paid On Results
  • Webgains

It's probably easier to talk from the point of view of which products or merchants, or even better, which niche you wish to promote and then take it from there.

Most websites which have affiliate programs have a small affiliate link somewhere on their site, or possibly on their About pages.

Hit Ctrl-F and type affiliate on a website you would like to promote and typically if they have an affiliate program it will jump to that affiliate link.

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