Affiliate Networks

Affiliate networks or affiliate brokers, act as the middleman between affiliates and merchants that offer affiliate programs.  Giving merchants the ability to track all activity, arrange all payments, and help affiliates set up the necessary links on the affiliates web site.

Affiliate brokers help merchants recruit affiliates by including the merchant's affiliate program in their directory.  Most networks have a help center and make access to reports easy for both affiliates and merchants to view sales and traffic.

Affiliate broker networks are a great resource for prospective affiliates because they represent a wide variety of affiliate programs in one central location.  Making it easy to find a good program that you as an affiliate marketer want to promote on your web site.

LinkShare Corporation is a leading provider of technology solutions to track, manage, and analyze the performance of sales, marketing, and business development initiatives. Combining patented technology, the reach and distribution of a robust network, and expert account management services, LinkShare empowers clients with the ability to collaborate with partners online and develop cost-efficient pay-for-performance campaigns.  LinkShare is one of the best Affiliate Networks around.

LinkShare provides the platform, tools, and reporting to help clients acquire new customers, increase revenues, drive results, and measure success across affiliate, search, and email initiatives.  LinkShare clients are Fortune 500 and prominent companies doing business online, and include J.C. Penney, 1-800-Flowers.com, AT&T Corp., American Express, Avon Products and Dell, Inc.  LinkShare was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in New York City, with offices in San Francisco, Denver, and Chicago. 

Claiming over 10 million affiliates in their affiliate networks dat, LinkShare this is easiest one of the largest (or largest) and most trusted affiliate networks out there. They offer tons of affiliate programs that you can join, including many big name, big brand companies. Their online control panel is intuitive and easy to use.  The statistical interface is simple to use to quickly generate reports but offers many advanced features for you to view in-depth information about your leads and sales.  There payments have always been on time and prompt.  They offer all the standard types of creatives ranging from banner ads to pre-written e-mails.  This is a great network and all sites should give them a try!

The LinkShare Network is FREE to join!

Becoming a LinkShare Affiliate will help your web site generate more revenue for sales, leads, and traffic driven from merchant links placed on your web site.

The ClickBank affiliate network is the biggest online distribution center for over 10,000 digital products and services that are delivered entirely over the Internet itself (via web pages, files, or email).

Web businesses with digital products to sell (merchants) give us access to their product and place a special "Buy It At ClickBank" button on their web site. 

ClickBank products are promoted through our network of over 100,000 online marketers (affiliates). Each vendor selects an affiliate commission percentage for their products in advance. Affiliates promote the products, and refer interested customers to the vendor's web site. The vendor's web site explains the product, and refers customers directly to ClickBank to buy it.  ClickBank makes the sale, pays the vendor, and pays the affiliate.

ClickBank offers significant advantages over any combination of stand-alone solutions for billing, marketing, or affiliate management:

Quality Control
Affiliates can freely promote any product and be assured that they will be paid for every sale they generate. Vendors can freely accept new affiliates without fear of fraud or misrepresentation.

Advanced Security
ClickBank uses sophisticated international fraud control to screen all purchases. For maximum card security, all orders are sent directly to the banking network for immediate authorization. We do not store any credit card or bank account numbers.

Risk-Free Marketing
Since commissions are paid to affiliates only when a customer makes a purchase, the vendor's advertising expenditure is 100% effective.

Patented Technology
ClickBank's services are underpinned by four patents that protect key aspects of the system, including the linking of payment to the distribution of commissions.

ClickBank is FREE to join and is a great place to sell your own products as well as find over 10,000 products to promote, sell and earn commissions on.