Affiliate Networks

Email Marketing Permitted Yes

ClickBank distributes over 10,000 digital products and services through a network of over 100,000 affiliates. I use Clickbank's services both as an affiliate and as a merchant, and I can attest to the fact that the checks arrive like clockwork. Their one-page application process is the shortest I've seen yet and the only restriction of note was the one against spam. The Clickbank Marketplace lists all of their merchants' products ranked in order of product popularity. There is no waiting for...

Overtures Search Term Suggestion Tool

To assist its over 80,000 advertisers choose keywords and phrases relevant to their sites and businesses, Overture provides a 'Search Term Suggestion Tool'. You simply enter a term related to your site and the tool returns related searches that include the term you placed in the search box. The results also include the number of times that term was searched for during the previous month. I've noticed that it usually takes until the middle of the following month for the previous month's results...

Link Share reports over 10 million partnerships in the network and claims to be the most successful pay for performance

I find their user interface quite intuitive and easy to use. I especially like the 'Create Links' link that takes you immediately to a list of all your current merchant partners in the Linkshare network. This is a step up from Commission Junction's interface where it takes a couple of more clicks to get to the same place. Within the Your Account, Program Controls section, it's really simple to get all the information you need about an individual merchant and their program, including contact and...

Link Trading FFAs Banner Exchanges

Link trading, link exchange, or reciprocal linking is a web promotion strategy used by webmasters and site owners to increase link popularity as well as qualified traffic to their sites. Page ranking in search engines is influenced by the link popularity of your site. The numbers of sites that link to yours, as well as the popularity of those sites determine link popularity. This is a relatively important factor as far as search engine placement is concerned. You've probably seen sites with...

Affiliate Program Directories

Affiliate Program Directories are Web sites that contain lists of links to affiliate programs that have been compiled and organized by various webmasters. They usually categorize the listed programs by type of products sold (e.g. educational, business, etc.) and include brief summaries of each program with sufficient information to allow directory users to choose which programs they would like to join. Some also provide program ratings as supplied by program users. Affiliate program directories...

BeFree Reportingnet

Minimum Payout - Varies according to merchant. Payments - Payments are made by the individual merchants. Timeframes also vary. Real-time Tracking - No Multi-Tier - No Email Marketing Permitted - Depending on individual merchant specifications. One of the BIG 3 affiliate networks, (i.e. BeFree, Linkshare and Commission Junction), BeFree's information page for new affiliates advises that BeFree merchants have paid out more than 220 million dollars in affiliate commission. My guess is that this...

Commission Junction

Programs - CPA, CPC, CPS Minimum Payout - 25 up to 75 Payments - Payments are made on the 20th of the month to Canadian and American publishers (i.e. CJ's name for affiliates), and on the last day of the month to publishers outside those countries. Advertiser payments are available in 16 different currencies and are consolidated into one monthly check. Direct bank deposits are available. Real-time Tracking - Yes Multi-Tier - Yes, with restrictions. They allow only U.S. and U.K. publishers to...

Web Sponsors

Programs - Primarily CPA Minimum Payout - 15 Payments - Monthly electronic transfer payments (ACH) to your bank account on a Net 30 days payment basis. Real-time Tracking - No. 24-hour delay Multi-Tier - You will earn 10 of whatever revenue the referred site makes each and every month. Websponsors' application process is short, sweet and pretty much automatic. You simply click the link in the email they send you to confirm your request to join their advertising Network. They have the usual...

Commission Soup and Credit Soup are part of the same affiliate network that specializes in offering financial related

One of the beefs I have with some stand-alone programs, as well as with some affiliate networks, is their requirement that affiliates be U.S. citizens or operate sites that promote products only to other U.S. citizens. I've always wondered why it matters where a site is based if I can direct U.S. citizens to their site. Fortunately, companies like Commission Soup understand that Internet marketing is a worldwide activity. Commission Soup is a network that sells credit card offers exclusively to...

Method 3 Affiliate Link Cloaking Software

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to find the links hidden by redirection scripts or right-click disablers. However, the solution is finally at hand Within 5 minutes of buying and trying this new software, I was so pleased to finally have the problem beat that I was pretty much jumping up and down in my seat. You simply input the affiliate link that you want to hide, name and save the page (i.e. cloaker.html), and then upload it to your server. Furthermore,...