-Courtesy Of AffiliateProgramsCollege
Thanks to
profitpuppy.com for portions of this
article
Certain affiliate programs have a very high
profit potential. Others have about a snowball's chance in... well, don't
have much chance of making an income at
all.
So how do you choose? It depends upon
the content of your site. It doesn't work to promote dog medicine to
people if your site is about trips to Jamaica. While you
might be able to relate the two, your site visitor probably will not
relate their trip to Jamaica with getting cheap medicine for their dog. And
when it comes to affiliate marketing, it's not about you.
It's about your visitor. Affiliate income is about you, but
you only earn the income by doing the marketing.
There are affiliate programs on just about
anything, but only some programs are highly profitable. If you are working
with a very profitable affiliate program, then you can actually build your
entire site around the affiliate program itself.
So, which affiliate programs make the
most money?
If you have a high traffic site (100,000 visitors per month), then you
can make money with any affiliate program as long as it is related to the
content of your site. However if you have a low traffic site, you need to
be more selective to make money. Look for the following characteristics of
a good affiliate program:
1. Lifetime commissions. Certain
affiliate programs give you commissions on every product that is sold to
the customer, forever. A great example of this is
SpeedyPin. One of the designers
of this site earns residual commissions from people purchasing calling
cards, and these people signed up months ago through
SpeedyPin.
2. Affiliate programs that have high
profit for each sale will help you grow more quickly. However,
simple logic will tell you that $2 is better than $0. It's better to
make a profit of $30 per sale than $2 per sale, but if you stick and stay,
you can get your pay. What this means is that patience and
persistence are huge when it comes to affiliate marketing.
3. The product needs to be of great
quality - something that you can actually vouch for. Why sell
something that is poor in quality?
4. Information products can be the
best type of affiliate products because they do have high profits. Many
people will give you 50% commissions or more for selling their information
product. Why? It costs virtually nothing to reproduce an
information product. Stamping a CD costs 25 cents, or emailng the
information costs less. If it's a good product, it can be resold for
$9.95 (or more), and because the product designer doesn't have to market
it, they will pay generously for your efforts.
To get a real idea of what are the best
affiliate programs, you need to have a look at what affiliates are earning.
Find out more information about
what top affiliates are earning.
You can also have a look at the affiliate
networks which put together a whole lot of affiliates with merchants.
The main affiliate networks are listed many
places throughout the internet, and on affiliateadvice's
affiliate program directories page.
Check these directories out for a high quality selection of products in a wide variety of
areas.
If you REALLY want to know what the highest
commission products are, here are a few examples. But please remember that
these areas are highly competitive, and it is hard to get search engine
traffic for them
Information products - online newsletters
and ebooks.
Credit Cards.
Online Gambling, sportsbooks etc.
Mortgages/loan companies
Software products
Web Hosting (very competitive area)
Office Supplies (such as inkjet cartridges)
This is not a definitive list. There are
plenty of other products as well. These, however, are all very high profit
areas.
This article was reprinted
from
affiliateadvice.us, where you can
find
great affiliate programs and ways to generate online
income.
Consider these and take your affiliate business to a new level.
To your success
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