Affiliate Programs - is a program that allows websites to sell a product on a commission basis. There are 3 main types of affiliate program: pay per sale, pay per lead and pay per click programs. Furthermore, programs can be flat fee, or commission-based. They can be single tier, two tier (rewarding those who bring in new affiliates) and multi-tier. Each type of program has its advantages and disadvantages, and each is relevant to different sites and situations.



How to Partner with Affiliate Programs Sites:

Some helpful tips and practical guides:

1. Feel comfortable with them and the products/services they are selling. If you suspect them to be fly by nights you won't be able have enough trust and confidence to sell whatever they're carrying.

2. It has to match your site's audience. Like for my sites, I'm offering directory content and search engines, google adsense is perfect for my site, and the other I have is http://www.morefreebies.info ad reporting is perfect for it. Sites of the same products sticks together.

3. Don't let greed color your decision

If it's a site that promotes illegally PUP (Potentially unlikable programs) like Trojans, spy ware or virus then do it. Don't partner with them, better lose lots of money on this in the short term than in a long term.

Here are the top affiliate programs that thru the years have paid me top money for promoting their products/services:

1. Ad reporting

We began as email publishers and know and understand exactly what makes a good product or service to sell and make money with. We only accept products and services that we have tested in our own newsletters and have converted to a good CPM rate.

We insist that merchants provide a special promotional package or product for us to market. We work with the merchant to make sure the product sells once visitors hit their site.

2. Yoursitebar

Create your own toolbar Get paid up to U.S.$0.25 per install. Creating your own site toolbar is free, fast and easy with our web editor. Add to your toolbar images, menus, sub menus, textboxes, links and separators. With your site bar, you can increase traffic to your site as well as generate new incomes from constant streams of loyal visitors.

3. Adbrite

Enable your site to charge for advertising space in real time. You get paid with network ads bought directly from the site itself and pays you per click.

4. Clickbank

Merchant account that allows you sell virtual things on the internet such as ebooks, software, promotional tools and acquire a lot of affiliates selling your product by sharing with them a percentage of not more than 75% commissions. You sell all their products via a hotlink.

5. Adlandpro

Allows you to have your very own free advertising portal, social networking community, and get paid for ad impressions, tools, and their numerous advertising and website promotion related products and services.

6. Regnow

Allows you to sell different and various categorized high quality software only the likes of pcworld (tm) and pcmag (tm) can list and sell. Gives you various percentage of commissions based on the software companies selling the software.

7. Revenue pilot

Gives you your very own co branded ppc (paid per click) search engines and earns you a percentage of the search engine bids. Good if you have already search engine traffic like I do .

Revenue Pilot provides you with the most innovative, efficient and effective way to monetize your traffic. The Pay For Performance (PFP) and the Pay Per Click (PPC) markets have created ample opportunity for the web publishing community to turn its traffic into pure profits. Revenue Pilot offers its affiliates seamless entrance into this highly profitable arena through its Premiere Pay Per Click Network.

8. Fine clicks

This is a pay per lead, pay per sale, and pay per click affiliate program. Good if you have lots of websites already have quality traffic. They don't just approve sites just because you apply with them.

9. Primary ads

Primary ads maintains the highest merchant payouts, best customer service, top tracking software especially their leads generator allows you to generate leads more easily, over 150 top CPA (cost per action) offers, and U.S. based.

10. Gamma cash

Yes, yes it's adult sites promotion. Nothing personal but sex sites all thru the years have maintained their high payments to webmastes so definitely they're here to stay. Pays for every sale, every lead and every dialer downloads.

11. Linkshare

One of the oldest affiliate programs out there but it's very difficult to be approved. They require high traffic sites to begin with.

12. Russian Brides

Russian Dating site that pays per click. Various percentages for clicks.

13. Google Adsense

Pays per click and per search provided you have a high quality site with good content. They approve fast especially if you own a search engine or a directory.

14. Herculist

A safelist where you can join for free and send your solo ads to 700 members and to 34,000+ members (at the time of writing) when you're a paid member.

15. E-gold

E-gold is electronic payment for virtual products and services. Please refer to my article: How To Fill-Up E-gold with Lots of Gold? William Nabaza of http://www.Nabaza.com specializes in domains, webhosting, webmaster's tools, netpreneur's articles and resources. Stands out as a freebie provider, business opportunity provider and