networks are best for you and who you should trust, is the biggest factors when joining a new affiliate network. In this section, we will breakdown the benefits of using an affiliate network, why some are better than others, and identify a few of the top performing affiliate networks in our industry.
What is an Affiliate Network?
The best way to describe an affiliate network is to think of a mediator between merchants (advertisers) and affiliates. If you’ve ever bought a house, you normally have a lawyer and use an escrow account. The seller and buyer won’t exchange money and/or the house, until both parties are satisfied… the same concept can be applied to an affiliate network. The affiliate network stands between the merchant and affiliate and insures legitimacy for both sides. The primary reason why affiliate networks exist is so an affiliate can find a wide variety of offers in one location, and merchants can have access to many affiliates. The affiliate network does the overhead of recruiting affiliates, bringing in new advertisers, tracking leads and sending out payments. For performing this overhead, affiliate networks receive a commission, usually receiving commissions in the 15-30% range for their work. (Example: If an offer is paying $10 per lead, the advertiser is probably paying $13 and the network earns $3 per lead.)
Why You Should Use an Affiliate Network?
As an affiliate, there are a lot of options for running offers and making money. The best and most efficient way to find new offers and get started is to join an affiliate network. Not only do networks have a great deal of offers/merchants to choose from, but they also offer affiliate support, creative services and can normally pay more on offers if you can provide increased volume.
Most importantly, you can run several different offers at the same time, and then receive one check at the end of the week/month.
Benefits of Using an Affiliate Network:
Some of the benefits gained from using an affiliate network include, all tracking and payments are done by the network, networks act as a middle man and in many cases will pay their affiliates even if the network itself is not paid by the advertiser.
Rewards programs and incentives are also offered by affiliate networks. A lot of networks like to motivate their affiliates to bring in more volume and earn more money. From time to time, some
networks offer a 1-2% bonus on monthly earnings, or will reward affiliates with vacations or other prizes to encourage affiliates to raise their performance level.
Recommended Affiliate Networks:
After running ZacJohnson.com over the past few years, I’ve had the opportunity to work with a lot of affiliate networks, as well as send a lot of new affiliates their way. A few of the top referred earnings and most recommended networks are listed below.
- ClickBooth: With over 4000 active affiliate offers and ranked as the Number #1 affiliate network in the world by Website Magazine, ClickBooth has quite an established position in the affiliate industry. Not only is ClickBooth a great company to work with, but they have an awesome staff and affiliate support team as well.
- Neverblue: Over One Million Dollars has been earned by affiliates that have signed up to Neverblue through my blog at apsaraload.blogspot.com. Not only are they one of the largest affiliate programs around, but they are one of the longest running and most successful. I highly recommend
Neverblue, and they are more accepting of new affiliates than other networks.
- PeerFly: A well respected network with over 300 different offers, specializing in Email/Zip Submits, Healthy and Beauty and As Seen on TV offers. Lately I’ve integrated offers from PeerFly with a few of my smaller blogs and have seen substantial growth in revenue by employing their offers.
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