Ken Mathie’s latest PMC eZine article titled “How To Get Major Affiliate Directories” is reprinted here. [eZine Article]


Ken Mathie’s latest article is reprinted here.

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How To Get Major Affiliate Directories

I’m a big believer that smaller is usually better when it comes to affiliate programs. What I mean is that I believe that the closer you are to the person that’s running it, the less hassles you are likely to get from them. I would suggest that if you have little money to start with, you should try to steer clear of the BIG brand name affiliate programs like Google. Here is a list of some of the places where you can find affiliate directories:

AssociatePrograms.com directory helps you find the best associate programs which are also known as a referral, partner, revenue sharing or affiliate programs which help you to earn money from your website. No “adult”, or scammer companies make it onto this site so you are safe here.

This is one of my personal favorites. Not only does Alan Gardyne filter out all the bad people, but every single affiliate program is rated by the public. The site is well presented and its easy to find the information I’m after. The newsletter is awesome too. It is one of the best sources of new programs, affiliate news and selling tips available today. Please remember…

http://www.AssociatePrograms.com

http://www.2-tier.com/

Since the idea behind an affiliate, or associate program is to recruit other webmasters to help you sell your wares, by paying them for each visitor or sale they bring you 2-Tier is a directory of two tier affiliate programs. It features a searchable directory of associate, reseller and partner programs. It also works to include recommended sites, news and articles.

http://www.affiliatesdirectory.com/

This website can be your source for affiliate programs and associate programs. Over 2700 listings including new programs, recommended programs, top ten, two tier, most popular and top rated programs out there today. This is a great directory for you to go to.

http://www.affiliateadvisor.com

AffiliateAdvisor.com claims that they are NOT an affiliate or associate program directory. It’s a resource for merchants and affiliates who want to make more money by participating in the explosive growth of affiliate marketing. The focus here is on educating you and consulting to merchants and third party providers, and program recommendations for affiliate sites.

http://www.refer-it.com

This web site is the authoritative guide to Internet associate, referral, and affiliate programs. Refer-it also features resources, a discussion forum, interviews, downloads, and an article archive. It will really help you no matter what level you are working from.

http://www.affiliatetips.com

Here you will find affiliate marketing tips, resources, industry news and interactive email discussions. This is a true one-stop resource for learning about affiliate programs and finding new ways to profit from your website. Their email discussion list is one of the few that is world wide and that is entirely dedicated to affiliate marketing.

http://www.revenews.com

This is a cool website that will give you all of the latest news on revenue sharing, affiliate and associate programs. ReveNews.com is dedicated to providing expertise, education and resources to the growing community of “revenue sharing” web site participants. They are very focused on providing you the advice and opinions to participate effectively in these new revenue sharing opportunities. This is like a one stop shop for news.

http://www.affiliateforce.com

This is the official site of the Internet affiliate marketing summit. Its purpose is to bring together all of the solution providers, merchants & affiliates. The largest congregation of affiliate marketing experts to date.

For the inexperienced Personally, I think that Commission Junction is pretty good to start with if you are not sure what you are doing. What I did was phone up or email each the top solution providers / affiliate directories. I’m pretty much an expert when it comes to html, but not everyone is as good as that. When you try to call and email each one of the BIG affiliate companies for tech support and you’re not an HTML expert, you might just need a little help with the tracking code. Larger companies assume that you already know all of this if you are an affiliate, but they are also hoping to make money off of those who do not.

I tried signing up for an affiliate program that claims to be the biggest affiliate software company as an experiment. I tried purchasing something using my links and the sale was not tracked. The affiliate software company actually blamed the merchant and vice versa. All I was left with was a tracking number. A month later the merchant said the problem was resolved. Forget it! It just isn’t worth the effort if you are not really good at HTML code.

One affiliate program refused my membership because my site did not have enough content in it. That just amazes me! I tried to explain that my site is a web store, and most of my valuable content was subscription based and inside of password protected directories. All that I actually managed to get from them were a bunch of stock replies. When I finally did get an answer from a real human being I basically had to hear “so what, that is how we work.”

With the fourth or fifth largest company, I really needed support because I could not get their code to work no matter what I tried to do with it. I managed to get a half interested email from some technician. We emailed back and forth a few times and then it just kind of petered out. I just got sick of it and quit.

Commission Junction, finally, is a big affiliate directory and solution provider that I can work with. With them, I got a very informative answer from a very polite technician. I find that it is a very good option for the newbie because the help is useful and polite.

Basically, Commission Junction creates alliances between affiliate sites that have interesting content and online merchants that sell products or services. They enable affiliate content sites to leverage their content and engage in e-commerce, by placing merchant ads, products, and services at the point-of-interest to their consumers on a pay-for-performance basis.

In other words, Commission Junction asks you to find products that match your content. Create instant shopping on your site. Earn commissions for every impression, click, lead or sale. Manage your entire merchant network through a single interface. Of course, by the time you reach this part of the book, you have already done that, so it will be a snap!

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