Best affiliate networks to join

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Joining Affiliate Networks

Now that you’ve been introduced to affiliate advertising and search marketing, it’s time to take some concrete steps toward making it all happen. In this article, I walk you through the process of joining some affiliate networks, and because this is often the stage at which I receive the most phone calls from friends who try affiliate advertising, I am going to be as detailed as possible.

Keep in mind, though, that web sites sometimes make changes to their application process. If you run into trouble, I have developed a Web resource to help ensure that up-to-date information and instructions are always available. That resource is the Affiliate Millions.

HOW TO JOIN AFFILIATE NETWORKS

There are dozens, if not hundreds, of affiliate networks available out there on the Internet for you to join. I can’t provide you with step-by-step instructions on how to participate in each and every one of those networks, but I can walk you through the process with a few of my favorites. After joining a few of these sites with my help, you shouldn’t have any problem taking yourself through the process on your own with some of the many other networks out there.

Specifically, I am going to help you get started by walking you through the process of joining four of my favorite networks: Commission Junction, Affiliate Fuel, Advertising.com, and Amazon.com’s Associates Central. Even though it isn’t an affiliate network per se, Amazon.com runs one of the largest affiliate programs on the Internet and offers a wide range of products. Since Amazon runs this affiliate program on its own, not as part of another affiliate network, I simply treat it as a network of one.

I should remind you here that the process of joining most of these networks will go much smoother if you set up at least a simple web site of your own to represent your new business. Most affiliate applications request information about your web site, even when many of their affiliate programs will allow you to advertise their programs on search engines without having a web site of your own.

After you join one or more of these networks some may take some time to approve you.

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