"Affiliate Networks... Why You need Them?"

"Find out why you must work with the top affiliate networks..."

Welcome to the Affiliate Networks section!

Affiliate networks are the best places to find affiliate programs. You have many ways to find affiliate programs to promote, and registering for with an affiliate network is by far the fastest and safest way to start.

So What is an affiliate network?

Basically, affiliate networks are places where merchants can advertise their products to affiliate marketers.

The affiliate network will manage relationships between merchants (also called publishers, vendors or sellers) and affiliates. It is a win win situation. Let's have a quick review of affiliate networks benefits for both merchants and affiliates...

For merchants:

• They can get a stronger sales force for their products. They get more affiliates ==> more sales.
• Online Affiliate networks attract affiliates.

For affiliates: 

• They can find the products for their targeted market in a single place.
• They can also monitor and track their advertising campaigns and get many statistics in one place.
• Promoting products from affiliate networks is safer than promoting products for merchants running their own affiliate management software. (what if they don't pay? It happens sometimes.)
• Affiliates can the product performance before even starting to promote it.
• Tip: Affiliates can find new ideas for hidden niches within the affiliate marketing network. (Since the merchants has already done the market research, the niche he is targeting is profitable in most of the cases.)

Should I join several free affiliate networks?

When you are starting, I'd recommend to register with one affiliate network only, and when you feel comfortable, you can register with more. It is a wise idea to register with the top affiliate networks because of the quality of their service and their reliability.

Who will pay the affiliate commissions?

Merchants fund their account in the affiliate network, and the affiliate network pays affiliates. The good thing is that an affiliate can receive commissions even if his visitor don't end up paying something. It's awesome...

Affiliate networks offer three type of commissions structure:

• Pay per action (PPA/CPA) & Pay per Lead (PPL): With Pay per Action, the affiliate get a commission when a customer completes an action on the merchant site, like signing up for a free trial.

Pay per lead  is very similar to PPA (also called Cost per Action): the affiliate is paid when a visitor from his site provide his personal information (name, address,e-mail, phone...) on the merchant site.


• Pay per click (PPC): The affiliate receive a commission when a visitor click on his affiliate link and then end up on the merchant website.


• Pay per sale (PPS): The affiliate is paid a percentage of the sale. Whenever a visitor cliks on the affiliate link and buy a product on the merchant site, the affiliate get a percentage in dollars.

Is there any condition to join affiliate networks?

Affiliate networks are open to every affiliates. However, some networks will require that you get a given numbers of visitors, while others will target specific countries like some UK affiliate networks for example.

Some affiliate networks will accept your registeration instantly whilw others will go through a review process before you can promote the products.

What are the best affiliate networks?

Here is a list of popular affiliate networks to get you started.

• ClickBank.
• LinkShare.
• Affiliate Fuel.
• ShareaSale.
• Commission Junction (CJ).