Affiliate Programs & Resources

So you need a point of reference to start your affiliate marketing, Okay then check out this post. The list includes forums and affiliate communities along with well known affiliate directories and a whole lot more. Everybody has their own idea of what’s best in affiliate marketing so please feel free to leave your suggestions.

Product Review Finder: From the Lazy Marketer, this guy has got his stuff together, absolute tons of materiel for the discerning affiliate. The Unbiased Review Finder specifically searches consumer-driven product review networks, forums and communities in virtually every market so that you can find out what real customers have to say about a product you might be interested in promoting.

Viral Networks: This affiliate community is a thriving portal of fellow affiliates that you can communicate with to swap ideas. It has a bundle of promotion tools and resources for you to use including social network tools like twitter to broadcast your offers. The main dashboard includes options to upload your own videos and also gives you a free blog.

Leads Leap: Kenneth Koh has been at the helm of this affiliate website for quite a while now and from personal experience I have to say is one the better places to advertise your program. Leads are the main point of this site; never short on information and free promotion tools, you earn credits by clicking through ads either by email or onsite at the main website or his blog. Recently he added a widget which you can see on my blog; this credits you every time someone clicks through to read a post or ad. You can of course upgrade and really connect to thousands of leads that are in your industry.

Forums to Chat or Outsource, these are all great places to start if you need to get a grip with affiliate marketing, some real nuggets of information to be found.

http://www.sitepoint.com/

http://www.warriorforum.com/index.php?referrerid=76840

http://ablakeforum.com/

http://freeadvertisingforum.com/

http://forums.digitalpoint.com/

Elance.com, Needs no introduction, probably one of the most popular outsourcing websites on the web with thousands of professionals in all areas of online work. If you haven’t been to this site before then take the time to go through their extensive FAQs, it will pay dividends trust me.

Affiliate Directories, from Herbal Smoke shop affiliate programs to the latest Home Business news, if you can’t find what you’re looking for here then you better pack up and fly away. A few of these sites allow you to put your own affiliate programs online and include upload facilities for your videos.

AffiliateGuide.com

AffiliateSeeking.com (My Favorite) this one might be the only directory you need. They have a huge database that includes PPC, CPA, PPL and pretty much any ad program that can be tailored to your needs.

DataFeedFile.com (sites own description) DataFeedFile.com (DFF) gathers data feed files from thousands of Online Stores (merchants), we categorize and process data feed files to create a usable and searchable database. DFF’s main focus is to help webmasters (Affiliates) create price comparison shopping functionality easier and faster without needing their own database

Affiliate.com , DataOverdrive - Our email marketing division provides email list owners with solutions to monetize their current email lists through performance-based management services, just one of many services available.

AffiliatesDirectory.com, one of the Net’s original Affiliate Programs Directories, where we list 8321 Pay Per Sale, Pay Per Click and Pay Per Lead Affiliate Programs that offer Two Tier and Lifelong Commissions. We also offer an extensive range of resources and marketing tools for affiliates. They also have free marketing PDFs for you to download.

AffiliateFuture.co.uk, AffiliateFuture is the UK’s number one content-based affiliate marketing network.

AffiliateWindow.com, Affiliate Window handle over 750 merchants, ranging from blue-chip brands such as Dixons, Boots and Vodafone, to niche retailers looking to grow their online presence. Affiliate Window is committed to developing market-leading technology to assist the performance of both merchants and publishers.

ShareSale.com, (very popular) the idea - and the implementation - are simple. You decide which merchants to promote and how to promote them, and when commissions are generated, you can see your stats in real-time. All payments are consolidated from the programs you participate in, and are paid with one check or direct deposit by ShareASale.

ClickBank - One of the largest and most popular affiliate networks, ClickBank has a worldwide reach and allows webmasters to monetize their Web site with a huge range of campaigns (over 10,000). The network features a large number of Web and software products, including “eBooks”, downloads and more, which you can add to your sites to earn regular monthly commissions. New Hop Ads widget can now be added to your site, just input your keywords for relevant offers, all imbedded with your affiliate link.

PayDotCom: Sell your products and services through our online marketplace, and let PayDotCom take care of all your affiliate needs. And get paid instantly to your PayPal account.

Promote products in our marketplace and earn commissions as a PayDotCom affiliate. Our members area will allow you to track stats such as clicks, sales, and conversions

ValueClick Media - An American CPA (Cost Per Action) affiliate network containing hundreds of schemes that you can use to generate income from your site

Wholesale Resale Rights, Private Label products

Mike Mazzella ResellRightsWholesaler.com Ok this is one of my affiliated sites, but it does give you access to a huge library of Resale Products. Materials include E-Books, Video Tutorials, Software, Templates and Graphics all for a low monthly payment.

I would appreciate any feedback here for more links because quite frankly it’s a jungle out there.

Just for reference sake here is Google’s return on Resale Rights private label products.

Sallys-ebooks, A good place to start if you are looking for Resell Rights Ebooks

Top 50 Affiliate Networks by Traffic rank

This is a short list of some of the affiliate programs that you can checkout, I will add more links as time goes by, please feel free to add any worthy affiliate resources by leaving a comment.

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