5 Best Affiliate Marketing Networks for Beginners To Make Money Online
To make money online promoting affiliate products, you will need to find affiliate marketing networks. Affiliate marketing networks make it easy for you to find offers to promote based on category, payout, popularity and etc. And although there are many affiliate marketing networks out there, not all of them are worthy. Here are 5 networks that I consider to be the top affiliate marketing networks for beginners to start making money online:
Commission Junction
Commission Junction without a doubt is one of the biggest and most well-known affiliate marketing networks out there. Very easy to search through offers and find the ones that suit your needs. Easy to track and analyze data for conversion rates, traffic generation, and more. You also get an assigned account manager which can help you with any questions and concern you might have, which if you are a beginners, can come in handy. They offer a very flexible payment incentives.
ShareASale
Share A Sale is an international affiliate marketing company, which gives you the ability to promote more offers in more countries. ShareASale offers a referral program as well. For each person you refer to share a sale, you will receive (if they join) $1 and 5 % of all their future earnings.
eBay Affiliate Program
eBay affiliate program is very easy to to get started with. There are thousands of products in different categories you can promote and make money with. Of course, eBay is a global company, which means more products and services are available to promote in more countries. Another reason eBay affiliate is good not only for beginners but for anyone for that matter, is the name itself. You will have much more click through rate because of the name eBay. People know and trust the name, so they are more likely to click on the link on your blog.
Amazon Associates
Amazon affiliate is perhaps one of the first affiliate programs ever. Just like eBay, there are thousand of products to promote. It is easy to install a widget on your blog (specially if you use blogger as your blogging platform) which will promote product you choose. It also has the benefit of the name recognition which can be helpful for you in making money as a beginner affiliate marketer.
Maxbounty
Maxbounty is on of the fastest growing affiliate marketing networks today. They have tons of great products for you to promote, specially email and zip code submit offers. These offers are offers that in order for you to get paid, the only thing your visitors need to do is submitting their email address or zip code. It is very easy to make money with email and zip code submit offers specially if you are a beginner affiliate marketer. They also have a great team of account managers, that are more than willing to help you with any issues.
I know there are any more affiliate marketing networks out there. Sites like ClickBank which without a doubt is a great affiliate marketing network, and perhaps one of the best. But, ClickBank is not that easy to use for a complete beginner. And in this post, I just wanted to list the 5 best affiliate marketing networks for beginners to make money online as an affiliate marketer.
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July 21st, 2011 at 10:15 am
Hmmm……am a newbie,i want affiliates network that accepts nigerians and pays without paypal,because nigeria is not allowed to use paypal,pls help me my email is kingsleyfelix4@gmail.com i need help on google adsense too.thanks God bless
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October 21st, 2010 at 5:52 am
Great list. I am still new to affiliate marketing and still learning. I will check out these networks. Thanks.
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October 6th, 2010 at 5:01 am
I have always used ebay, not a bad idea….
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September 3rd, 2010 at 12:58 am
I have signed up for Amazon Affiliates, have got 91 clicks but ZERO sales! God knows how long is it gonna take me to make my first sale!
You have any suggestions Buddy?
Sincerely,
SwayamDas2010
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satrap Reply:
September 4th, 2010 at 12:01 am
Swayam,
Sorry to hear that. To be honest it depends on a lot of things. And sometimes, you do get hunderds of clicks and no sale. Its all about testing with different things such as your landing pages, your call to action and etc. The best thing would be to look into your campaigns and test different things until you hit that one combination that converts those clicks to sales. Good luck.
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August 27th, 2010 at 10:02 am
hi, I attended the CB, CJ and amazon, but because of low traffic blog until now has not been making money
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August 22nd, 2010 at 11:24 am
Commission Junction is up there for beginners for sure. Easy to use and get your site making money through affiliates.
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August 21st, 2010 at 7:26 am
That’s a good list as a starting point. eBay is one of my highest paying sources of affiliate income which remains remarkable to me seeing as everybody already knows about eBay.
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August 19th, 2010 at 4:37 pm
I use both Commission Junction and Linkshare for my affiliate marketing. But honestly, I’ve made more money in referral commissions just by telling people they can save up to 25% on their online shopping with cashback programs like http://www.EbatesCashBack.com . It’s easy to give away coupon codes and discounts to stores like Ebay, Walmart, Target, Gap, JCPenney, Best Buy and other name brand stores.
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August 16th, 2010 at 8:32 pm
Hi, I appreciate this list, but I just wanted to pose a question.
Why is it that you feel that commission junction is one of the best for beginners? I was always under the impression that it was one of the more difficult to get started with because apparently you have to apply with each merchant and get approved for each offer? Is that true? Also, aren’t the standards that the merchants on commission junction have pretty stringent?
It’s also interesting that your list of top five does not mention clickbank (although I do see you mention it in your last paragraph). It seems like clickbank is always mentioned as one of the first ones for beginners.
Would you possibly consider expanding on this post (maybe creating a “Part 2″) to explain more in depth about what you think is helpful for the beginner on each one of these affiliate networks?
Thank you in advance!
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satrap Reply:
August 16th, 2010 at 11:34 pm
David,
I think CJ is the best for beginners simply because it has a lot of great merchants you can work for and it really is easy to use. Although you have to apply for individual Merchants, the process isn’t really hard. All you have to do is click a button and wait a few days to see if your approved or not.
About Clickbank, although it is one of the best affiliate programs out there, I think for a beginner, it will be very confusing to use CB. They have a very complicated process and even some of the terms used in CB like Gravity would spin a beginner’s head.
I am actually in the process of compiling a bigger list that will contain all the top affiliate marketing networks. I will post it here in the next few weeks or so.
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August 13th, 2010 at 11:57 am
Great article post. I have tried Amazon Associates and its pretty easy to use.
Wonderful post, I really enjoyed reading it!
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August 12th, 2010 at 3:40 am
It was a pleasure reading it, in fact I’m so glad that I will add your blog to my RSS, of course if that’s ok with you. I have also bookmarked this page. I hope you would keep us informed about coming archives in future as well.
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August 11th, 2010 at 6:00 am
Amazon associates is the best and the most reliable of the programs for beginners to make money online.
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August 8th, 2010 at 5:39 pm
I like Amazon the best. They have the best brand name recognition. For some reason I can’t get approved at Ebay, but that’s ok. I’m sticking with Amazon for the time being.
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August 5th, 2010 at 3:44 am
Thanks for the wonderful share. though I have been associated with CJ and believe that it is one of the best Affiliate Marketing Channel. The best thing about them is that they only promote products that are reliable.
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August 3rd, 2010 at 8:08 am
I’ve tried using CJ, so far the results have not been that great, I have had one sale but the hops are starting to increase.
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August 3rd, 2010 at 3:57 am
My favorite one is E-Junkie….well it is a affiliate network cum a payment processing system. Then my second best Is CJ
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August 1st, 2010 at 9:20 am
I have always used ebay, not just to sell but to buy and I think it really is a great platform for people to start making money online.
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satrap Reply:
August 2nd, 2010 at 11:30 pm
Mobsin,
eBay truly is a great platform for making your first dollar online.
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August 1st, 2010 at 4:41 am
I felt that NeverBlue were also pretty good to deal with when i began? Might just have been my AM, but he was really helpfully in providing me with top performing offers to help me get some initial cash.
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satrap Reply:
August 2nd, 2010 at 11:28 pm
Army c…,
I have heard a lot of good things about Neverblue, although I dont have any personal experience with them. There are a lot of other good networks out there. But, I made this list mostly for beginners, and I wanted ad networks that are user friendly and easy to get started with for beginners.
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July 31st, 2010 at 9:19 am
Great resource. Thanks for sharing. I have tried Amazon Associates and its pretty easy to use. SquidUtils is a good tool to get its html codes. I’ve also tried Commission Junction but its a bit complicated (at least for me). So which of the five do you recommend for a beginner?
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August 1st, 2010 at 1:20 am
Jovit ,
It really depends on you and your specific situation, like the niche you are in and etc. But, I would day for complete beginner, any of this will do, since they are easy to get started with.
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July 29th, 2010 at 1:57 am
This is my first time i visit here. I found so many interesting stuff in your blog, especially its discussion. Keep up the good work.
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July 29th, 2010 at 1:02 am
I suggest clickbank
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July 28th, 2010 at 8:07 am
I have used Comission Junction with great succes in the past and think it´s top nutch.
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July 26th, 2010 at 11:27 am
Great article, i use ebay and amazon a lot. I have not heard of the other ones until now but I will try them out. Thanks for this.
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July 26th, 2010 at 1:34 am
I am just starting to promote my site and these infos widened my knowledge. It will really help me as an affiliate marketer. Please continue posting informative blogs like this. Thanks.
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