Disclaimer: Reviews of these affiliate networks and affiliate programs are based on my own personal opinion and experience. I have received payments from each of these networks and will not review any program I have not ran paid advertisements promoting. This page does contain my affiliate links, however such affiliate links have little weight on my bias towards the network and it’s programs other than being another incentive for promoting a great program. (*) indicates an affiliate link.
Azoogle Ads is a huge CPA affiliate network with many popular offers. You know all those stupid Macy’s free gift card spams on MySpace? Yeah, most of those were from Azoogle affiliates. Although zip submits are losing heat (and EPC), you can find many great short form offers if that’s your thing. I am the #1 affiliate for a very popular offer on Azoogle which resulted in a private offer with payout increase. Sign up with Azoogle Ads and contact your affiliate manager to find out great information such hot offers, total conversions and top affiliate counts.
COPEAC* is what’s HOT right now! Well at least in some circles. It’s COPEAC that helped one kid earn over $52,000 in 2 days on Facebook with CPC. Affiliate campaigns found COPEAC include ringtone offers, email submits and zip submission reward offers. What also makes COPEAC popular are it’s incentive offers and opt-in email creatives. COPEAC is my alternative to Azoogle ads.
Hydra Network claims to be “The Leading Performance-Based Advertising Network”. They also advertise the ability to beat any other CPA networks payout, which is the reason I joined. I had a couple offer payout battles going and wanted to raise more hell but I couldn’t find any offers I am currently promoting. So honestly I haven’t done much with this network but they do seem to have a lot of excellent offers with high EPC.
ClickBank is a great program used by a lot of noobies who are just getting into affiliate marketing and making money online. ClickBank is popular for information products so it is flooded with “make money online” and “get rich quick” ebooks. You can find many solid products and programs on ClickBank, however there are probably even more crappy products to sort through first. Many ClickBank products offer generous commissions from 50% up to 75% which also make this program popular. ClickBank sends you a check every two weeks, for the two weeks prior and witholding 10% to cover any refunds until the next payout. If you are starting out on ClickBank, many people say “stay away from software, mp3 and movie downloading software” because it ca be costly. I would say the same thing, however I do not agree with it. Just be cautious when paying to market people looking for free shit. I currently generate most of my affiliate income from ClickBank.
Commission Junction has been around for a long time and was one of the very first affiliate programs I signed up for. CJ is a great affiliate program with a ton of networks and products. I am using Commission Junction on a couple websites I own. I did have a problem with one merchant, DishPronto. I earned over $1200 in affiliate commissions, 90% of those commissions were reversed by DishPronto. I had emailed DishPronto’s affiliate manager numerous times. He took two weeks and three emails to finally respond regarding my inquiring to the disappearing commissions. All he said was that “commissions may be reversed around the 10th of each month”, YEAH BUT 90%! Just know when to drop dead merchants and bad affiliate links, they are all over the place. Other than that Commission Junction is awesome but not one of my top earners.
RegNow* is a Digital River company, whatever that means. Actually I think RegNow is a smaller version of Digital River, but I do not really know. RegNow is full of great, useful and popular software. Some of the RegNow affiliate programs have commissions as high as 85%! One downfall with RegNow is that payments take about 60 days to cycle before payments are sent. On the plus-side, they do offer direct deposit. Many of their software affiliate links go straight to the check out page or trial downloads of the software. The lack of creatives might suck, however this weeds out those not willing put together a website or landing page. RegNow is an all-around solid program that is worth checking into. This is a network that I need to work with more.
AuctionAds* is a company that was started by the infamous ShoeMoney. I replaced AdSense with AuctionAds on a couple of my sites. AuctionAds outperformed AdSense for short while before things seemed to dwindle. The keyword features seems a bit lacking or I just haven’t mastered it. AuctionAds has a lot of potential if you can market the right products to your demographic.
CafePress* used to have a great affiliate program until they moved their program over to Commission Junction. I still promote CafePress affliate links but I enjoyed seeing my CafePress stats and commissions all together with the CafePress stores I have.
AdSense has had affiliate links for some time to promote AdWords, FireFox and AdSense. It is only recently that Google AdSense has expanded it’s CPA services. New programs are being added each day. The $250 AdSense referrals aren’t too bad either, which I myself have earned a few of.
More to come…
