MoreNiche is one of my favourite affiliate networks. They are one of the largest growing networks and their affiliates are extremly successful.

MoreNiche is the best choice for people who are new to affiliate marketing as they teach you everything you need to know to start making money online right now. Once you signup you’ll find lots of free start up guides, ebooks and tools.

MoreNiche gives its affiliates hundreds of articles you can rewrite. Improve your sites with more content. Unique content! They also give you free website templates and guides how you can set up your website. You can create your own affiliate website with unique content within hours. Google and buyers will love it!

The free guides will also explain ways to attract free targeted traffic to your site from search engines so you can build your own money making systems that work for you while you sleep!

Your website with great content is worth nothing without products that you CAN sell. I mean… Products that really solve the desperate buyers’ problems, give them solution and make them happy. Unlike other affiliate programs, MoreNiche select their merchant based on strict approval guidelines. Their products are amazing! The weight-loss and men-health products are converting like crazy.

Frankly, no other affiliate network gives you this much to help you make money online. And you get paid for every sale – phone orders, returns and even up-sells… I have nothing but good experiences with them. They are dominating the UK marketplace but the products are easy to sell outside the UK.

The MoreNiche Support Team is available everyday for you. You can reach them by phone, via their ticketing system or you can visit their forum. They are really friendly and helpful.

MoreNiche is a great opportunity you shouldn’t miss!

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Affiliate marketing can prove to be a very lucrative venture. Commissions can be as high as hundreds of dollars for just one sale.

What is an affiliate network you might ask. An affiliate network plays a middleman between the advertiser (also called merchants, vendors – companies or individuals with products and services to sell) and publisher (affiliates – who promote these products and services).

These networks may help you to easily find and participate in a program which is suitable for you. It provides things like tracking, payment processing, reporting etc.

Most affiliate networks allow anyone to sign up but some of them want you to have a website with your own domain.

There are hundreds if not thousands of similar posts out there, I know. But here is the list of my favourite networks.

Commission Junction

Commonly referred as CJ short. It is an international network with great background. They offer thousands of premium affiliate products for sale. It is not the cheapest solution for merchants to use Commission Junction, so mostly large businesses tend to use their service.

The minimum payout is $50 by direct deposit (for certain countries) and $100 by check (for the rest of the world).

ShareASale

Shareasale is another great system to work with. It has around 2,700 programs and 2,000+ merchants. If you are new to the affiliate business be ready for some exploration work. It’s not because of you but there is a lot of information. Their commissions are competitive.

The minimum payout is $50 by direct deposit or check

MoreNiche

It sounds like this network has a lot of merchants but actually only has 15 programs you can promote. Then… what do I like about this program? Their products are easy to sell, their support is the best in the industry and the commissions are great. You can always learn from them! Get up to $45 bonus just to start with.

The minimum payout is $100 by direct deposit, PayPal or check.

ClickBank

It’s an other well-known network and maybe the most popular among beginners. Clickbank accept every new application, all you need is an email address It’s easy to use and pays bi-weekly.

It deals mainly with digital products. The minimum payout is $10 by check or direct deposit. Payments are sent on the Wednesday two weaks after period end.

LinkShare

It is one of the oldest affiliate networks on the web. With a large selection of brands to choose from you’ll be sure to find something that’s perfect for your website or blog. Finding products and services to promote is easy.

The minimum payout is $1 by direct deposit or check.

Keep in mind, all the above affiliate networks are middlemen between you (as an affiliate) and the merchant you’re promoting. You can try them out for free. It doesn’t require you to have your own business as you will be able to promote an exisiting (large) business.

If you are promoting more than one merchant, all your earnings are going into one account and you can reach the minimum payout faster. Beginners should try affiliate networks first.

Happy earning!

As I mentioned before only 1-5% of all affiliate marketers are succeed in internet business. The others fail.

What are the most often repeated mistakes you should avoid? I want to show you some very basic mistakes I made myself and many ‘marketers’ are still making.

1. Signing up for every affiliate program – Most of the affiliate networks are free to join and offers thousands of merchants. Affiliates who participate in too many programs will not have enough time and money for promote all of them. Instead of focus on one vendor or niche they are trying to make huge money by offering hundreds of products. They bite off more than they can chew…
2. Promoting unrelated programs – I wouldn’t recommend a software on a jewlery site. But sometimes marketers do. If your visitors are not interesting in what you are promoting, you will never see them again.
3. Poor website – There is a lot out there… I’m sure you know what I’m talking about. Poor design, hard to read sites, worthless and duplicated contents, ‘useful’ widgets (weather etc).
4. Banners only – Some of the ‘marketers’ thinks that a banner is enough to sell those products. They found some great banners in the affiliate resources area so they put some of them here and some there. Now they ‘do the hard work’ and waiting for the results. But what we really need is unique content, CTA (call to action) graphics and targeted traffic.
5. Abandoned affiliate sites – Would you ever buy something from an affiliate who can’t remember when s/he saw his/her site last time? Updates are really important. There is always something happening in your niche. You should talk about it.
6. Hard selling – Don’t sell, recommend. People are not stupid, they know when you want to sell something. Build a website, get targeted visitors and just talk about a product that makes your/our life easier.
7. Pay Per Click traffic – Setting up a successful PPC campaign is really hard. Newbies should stay away from PPC (Google Adwords, Yahoo Search Marketing, Microsoft adCenter). Organic traffic is the most important way to get visitors to your website.

Of course this is not a whole list of mistakes but avoiding the above mentioned mistakes can help you making your first commissions.

Affiliate marketing is so popular that almost everyone knows what it is.

For those who missed something: An affiliate program is simply a program in which a business rewards affiliates for each visitor (pay per click) and/or sign up (pay per lead) and/or customer (pay per sale) brought by these affiliates. In other words you sign up for an affiliate program, promote their product/service and earn commissions by selling it.

Have you ever been asked where you bought something? Or have you ever been asked what you thought of something you bought?

Well, an affiliate is someone who answer these questions. But the best… He/She gets paid for it.

It sounds so simple and easy that it makes a wrong impression making money as affiliate is also easy. Actually it’s harder than you think. Only 1-5% of (so-called) affiliate marketers have ever received an affiliate check.

What happened to the others?

Hmm, let me ask you a question. Do you know any other business where you can start with only a few dollars? And it’s only for the domain name, hosting and website. Participation is free for the biggest affiliate networks – and you have access to thousands of products.

Well, most of these marketers are beginners. Everyone has heard about those successful newbies who made tens of thousands of dollars in their first month. Yes, of course they did… They just bought a great e-book

Most of the beginners want quick results. Just posting some banners on their site/blog and waiting for the checks. No hundreds/thousands of dollars after weeks? – They give it up.

Successful affiliate business is built upon a lot of smaller elements, but every mistake – even the smallest one – comes with lost affiliate commission.

It doesn’t really matter if the communication with your visitors is not effective or you are doing something wrong with your website’s SEO. If you can’t convert your traffic into sales and can’t turn your visitors into dollars, you will never see those affiliate checks.

I was logging in my Clickbank account today and was shocked to see a new design of Clickbank’s website! It’s now in bright chirpy red color! Check out the screenshot below:

The old design was there since 2006(?) and I miss that clean one but it doesn’t matter. This new one just looks like a template you can get on HostGator for free

They are even showing the amount of money they have paid to all the Clickbank affiliates in their network. The counter displays a fantastic $1.24 billion what you can see above.

Unfortunately this counter is created by a jOdometer jQuery plugin and it’s not displaying the actual sales. And why would a serious affiliate network put that kind of counter on their site? Maybe it attracts new vendors/affiliates.

New visitors should be able to find their way around easily and the information presented is very well laid out. Someone looking for information on how to be an affiliate or start selling as a vendor can easily find the relevant information.

Fortunately, once you’ve logged in to your account, the functions and links are the same – so it’s still easy to navigate.

There is also a new function called ClickBank HopLink Shield.

HopLink Shield helps protect your affiliate links from prying eyes.  It’s a free tool which masks the vendor and your nickname within the affiliate link.

So http://fatbanker.comblue.hop.clickbank.net/

will looks like

http://bbb0d-epm3r5iba2teqc071m2-.hop.clickbank.net/

It’s not just ugly but looks spammy too. I personally prefer my own redirecting:
http://fatbanker.com/go/comblue.php

Setting up an encoded hoplink is as easy as previously. Type your nickname and your tracking ID (if any), press the button and the ugly encoded hoplink is ready.

What happen if you have some encoded links floating around and can’t remember what product they are for? Well Clickbank also have a decoder for you. And “you” means everyone which brings up my next question, why would I encode a link if anyone can decode them?

It seems that it will add an extra layer of privacy & anonymity and keep affiliates promotional efforts and techniques hidden. But in reality it has no real benefit.

It would be a useful tool if you would be the only person who could decode your hoplinks.

Clickbank mentioned that all older HopLinks are still valid. The question is how long?