Chapter 3: Affiliate Program Help

An affiliate program is a place where people can sign up to sell your site to others as an "affiliate" of your web site.(They are like virtual independent sales people.)

The following is a list of some places where affiliate programs can be found:

REFERENCE

These links explain programs and how these work:

Top 10 Affiliates.Com
Has an excellent, thorough free affiliates program help guide with glossary for you to read over the internet

ReveNews.Com
Latest scoop on revenue sharing, affiliate, & associate programs

Affiliate Advisor.Com
Affiliate program advice and consultation

Affiliate Help.Com
articles, help, and references

Affiliate Tips.Com
Articles, directory, and more

Building an Affiliates Program
By Refer-It.com with software, walks you through from first steps to tracking and maintenance. Great tutorial!

New Affiliate Marketing Models
by Forrester.Com

AFFILIATE DIRECTORY SITES

These sites will list affiliate programs found on the internet. You usually have to sign up for program to participate.

Quick Clicks.Com
In dept reviews of affiliate and pay-per-click programs with top 5s, email newsletters and more

Top 10 Affliliates.Com
This site comes complete with a thorough directory, help guide, and build your own section.

Revenews.Com
Revenue News link to a directory of 100s of affiliate programs indexed by category.

2-Tier.com
Directory of 2 tier affiliate sites with helpful articles.

Total Web Pro's Affiliate Directory
Affiliate directory and top 10 affiliate programs

Clicks Link
Directory, new programs, and top programs found here.

Associate Programs Get paid for links and ads.

"The AssociatePrograms.com directory helps you find the best affiliate programs or associate programs to earn money from your website"

Refer It
Top 10s, 4 Stars, by category, and new program review, this Internet.com backed search engine promises to be "the only search engine that pays".

Affiliate Program Creators

These sites will help you make your own program:

Start by reading these helpful tutorials:

7 Deadly Sins of Affiliate Programs
This article discusses the do's and don'ts of affiliate program creation.

Top 10 Affiliate's
Build Your Own tutorial

Affiliate Zone.Com
Affiliate Tracking Technology.

Affiliate Tracking.Com
Affiliate tracking technology.

Site Trakker.Com
Site tracking software license for \$799 (11/01/00)

Affiliate Software.Net
Affiliate software solutions

Create Your Own Program
Links to sites to help you create your own by Click Links.Com

Affiliate Program Networks

Create your own or join one of these pre-established networks that manage your program for you

Click Trade
Create your own program and advertise it here. Claim to have over 7,000 merchants.

Value Click
The pay for results advertising networks.

Commission Junction.com
Over 1,000 merchants here.

Link Share.Com
With B2B affiliate network. "Over four hundred premier online merchants use LinkShare to build, manage, and track the success of their affiliate marketing programs."

ONLINE MARKETING NEWS

WANT AN EMAIL NEWSLETTER?

These sites offer free email newsletters regarding affiliate programs:

Revenews Digest
Free revenue news digest email newsletter subscription

Click Quick's Email Affiliate Update Newsletter

Top 10 Affiliates Newsletter

Affiliate Advisor
Offers an email newsletter

Clicks Link.Com
Also offers its own trade newsletter.

WANT TO STAY UP ON AFFILIATE PROGRAM NEWS?

Affiliate Tips.Com
E-Zine format with recent news, articles, and directory

ReveNews.Com
Latest scoop on revenue sharing, affiliate, & associate programs

Affiliate Wire.com
Has news updates of web sites and affiliate sites

CLICK HERE for Click Quick.Com's News Page

Affiliate Program Management

Manage the programs you sign up for with an affiliate program manager.

Affiliate Assistant.com
Affiliate Assistant 1.0 (for Windows 95/98/NT/2000) is a simple, but powerful application that will allow you to drastically increase your affiliate earnings. By organizing, tracking, and testing all of your various affiliate programs and campaigns, Affiliate Assistant puts you in control