There are hundreds or even thousands of affiliate programs available online. If you are planning to use affiliate programs to help you earn some money online, you would have a hard time to decide the suitable affiliate programs that really suit your need.
Affiliate programs are categorized into several categories like books, marketing, food & wine, credit cards, adult, autos,computers, softwares, matchmaking, money & finance, music, videos, sports, web hosting, surveys, PPC and so on. There are really too much affiliate programs to choose from. You need to choose carefully, so that the affiliates program you choose will really PAY YOU MONEY.
In addition, if you join too many affiliate programs you might have problem managing all of them one-by-one.
For example:
If you are joinning 20 affliate programs, you might not have enough time to manage them all and end up to make less money.
A few steps to guide you to choose affiliate programs:
1. Popularity:
You need to check the popularity of the affiliate programs you wanted to join. If everyone is talking about it and the programs really pay money to their affiliates, you can consider to join them.
2. Program Policies & Terms of Service:
This step is very important, you should not skip this step. Most people are lazy to read the Terms of Service and program policies because it is usually long. Read the program policies and terms of service properly. You need to check whether the policies and terms of service are suitable for you. Some of the policies are too strict that you can hardly make money from them, so read the policies very carefully before you join.
3. Services offered:
You need to check the services there offer to you. For example, you can consider the referrals, downlines system, payment (Cheques or Paypal) and so on. This is very important to make sure you get payment from them.
4. Search the web for details:
You need to check their Google Page Rank. Search for their website in Google, you need to check whether they are listed in the top results. If the page rank is very good which is PR9 or PR8, this means that the website is trustable. In addition check other websites for their details like details in forums, discussion groups, blogs and so on. You can check for people's complaints and opinions about it in those websites.
5. Final Decision:
Finally, make a list of affiliates program you like and choose around 5 Best Affiliates Program from your list. Make the decision properly so that you can make the most money from Affiliates program.
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