Affiliate Networks

For serious online affiliate marketers (and budding Super Affiliates), we offer these top-of-the-line, all-purpose solutions for taking your affiliate marketing business to the next level. All the reviews in this section of our website are for membership services offering you everything imaginable for optimizing your success in the field, from software tools to management services.

Most of the affiliate networks reviewed herein offer their clients access to a broad network (go figure) of other advertisers, publishers, merchants, and affiliates all looking for one thing – to make money. Networking is every bit as integral to eCommerce as it has always been for offline business of any sort.

In this section of our website we present to you some of the largest and most popular, well-established, well-respected, and profitable places to make affiliate marketing work for you.

Each of the companies reviewed herein offers 2 sets of packages to their clients. Usually, though not in every case, they’re divided up as follows:

Advertisers – affiliates seeking to increase traffic and conversions and improve their returns;
Publishers – webmasters wishing to further monetize their websites by providing precious advertising real estate to affiliate marketers.

In certain cases, however, the division goes like this:

Merchants – seeking affiliates to help sell their products and services; can also include assistance in starting your company’s affiliate program if you don’t already have one;
Affiliates – seeking more and better programs to join.

You must therefore read our reviews and the actual websites of these companies carefully. Some of them are more focused on hooking up affiliates with merchants while others concentrate more on bringing affiliates and merchants alike together with paying consumers. It may therefore be to your ultimate advantage to join two affiliate networks, one of each type.

In fact, with each network providing access to a completely separate pool of websites (to advertise on or to advertise for), it might interest you to join more than one network of the same type.

Services offering to help affiliates make more money may include:

wizard-like tools on creating advertisements in various formats
personal review of your site and marketing materials and one-on-one guidance on optimizing your campaigns
access to a network of publisher websites that all have (presumably) the targeted and interested traffic that you seek
access to a network of merchants with affiliate programs to join

Services offering to help website owners to make more money off of their existing websites may include:

selection over which advertising formats you will and won’t accept on your site
assistance matching you up with only relevant advertisers
automatic commission check delivery
access to affiliates wishing to help sell the website’s products and/or services

All the affiliate networks should offer some selection of tracking technologies for compiling data on your affiliate marketing activities, analyzing it, and reporting on the results – regardless of which side of the affiliate marketing fence you’re on.

Two criteria that should weigh heaviest in your decision as to which subscription service or services to join are:

The Company – By this we do not mean the actual Affiliate Network Company, but rather the company you’ll be keeping as a member of each network – the other member/clients. Look at the member/client lists of each network ( usually a partial list is available at the site) and see where you think you’d most belong;
Your Budget – Each one of these charges either a regular monthly or annual fee or some sort of cost-per-campaign or cost-per-action rate. Which services you join and how many will depend greatly on what you can reasonably afford.