Affiliate Marketing Programs for Starting an Online Business Website

Affiliate marketing programs work great for starting an online business website. They work from both sides; meaning you can use it to sell your products and you can use it to sell other people’s products. The advertiser and publisher both benefit from affiliate marketing. The advertiser pays the affiliate based on clicks, leads, or sales. This means the advertiser is getting targeted traffic to his site and the publisher is rewarded (through commissions) for directing traffic to the site. Most of you have probably heard of the “Big 3” which is Commission Junction, ClickBank, and Share-A-Sale but there are many others available. WebPalPro contains an entire section on affiliate marketing websites. Each of the links will open in a new window so once you have completed the registration process, simply close the browser to return to WebPalPro and visit the next link. We encourage you to register with as many of these as you like, especially if you are building an affiliate site. The wider your advertiser selection, the more discriminating you can be. You will be able to hand pick the advertiser that fits into your website the best. Before you start registering for these programs please read the next two sections of this book. We will break down what affiliate marketing means for both the advertiser and the publisher. You will also see how affiliate marketing can boost your total revenue even if you are developing a blog site, retail site, dating site, or AdSense site. *TIP* Affiliate sales are not limited to affiliate only sites. The affiliate marketing websites listed do not reflect all of the affiliate programs available. Many companies do not use an affiliate marketing website to advertise to affiliates. They have their own “in-house” affiliate program. If there is a product you feel is perfect for your website but you can’t find any affiliate programs available on the marketing websites, try visiting the website directly and contacting the company to see if they offer an affiliate program. There are two affiliate programs we want to specifically mention; eBay and Amazon. These are two highly recognizable brands which makes them very likely sources of revenue for your web site.