How to find the hottest affiliate marketing program?

Ofcourse every one knows about adsense. But this is about selling some products.

I would just like to know how to find a good selling product, which we can market.. I tried a few products with clickbank and I think there's lot of cheating giong on. I am not confident with the tracking mechanism it has..

Are you trying to personally sell the product or are you trying to advertise the product and collect a commision?

I am trying to advertise and collect a commission via affiliate products.

I had only positive experiences with clickbank, and also heared only good things.

Actually not every program in CB is bad. But there are some merchants who really do like what I said. That too is a feed back from a friend of mine, who is a heavy & successful affiliate marketer.

I'm using comission junction www.cj.com, not much success even with ebay and CJ.

I'll like to try new programs...

I use Commission Junction & Linkshare. I am thinking about dropping both, i have had 3 users that i know tell me they purchased through a link on my site. I did not see the transactions in my account.

In each case I contacted the vendor, and they corrected the mistake. However, I wonder how many happened that I did not know about.

I also use Amazon, which has been good. The only issue I have is that they change their prices alot, so it is hard to keep track.

The dude

www.paydotcom.com is good.

Average

I have been involved with a number of travel sites over the past 5 years and have had a good experience with www.activehotels.com

They offer 5% commission on every hotel booking and have 11,000 hotels in Europe and are soon to market hotels in the USA. They provide a Partnership Account Centre where you can easily track sales and commissions plus the whole booking site can be made to look like your own (and it is free).

The secret to success is to build a content rich front end.

If you are looking to make money from an affiliate programme, this works & it's fun. One of the sites I worked on did so well on the search engines, I was able to sell advertising on the site quite easily (this was the ultimate aim of the project).

If you have a go, I hope it works well for you.

To find a good aff program you would look for it like a good keyword.

Find a word or phrase (product based like 'shiny shoes' or something) with alot of searches but a low number of results.

Then, look for a product to promote.

I start getting a feeling that trying this PPC along with this affiliate marketing is probably a long shot. If I try 100 programs probably 1 may workout. To get nearer to such a program itself I would have spent a lot. I've almost spent more than a 1000 bucks and still waiting to get a decent one.

The moment we find and try to market it there are 100s of others who are in, with the same frequency as ours and competition builds up. In the end, it is only the merchant who gets benefitted out of the exposure offered by the affiliate marketers.

Probably a select few who entered in the earliest stage and worked hard might with-stand for a few years, may be months. Definitely not others.. Obviously it is like gold rush. The latter we go, the more sand we get than gold.

A clear lesson out of this is we can be successful if we make a sale before some one knows there is a business..

There is a 9 page thread over at Sitepoint from a man that just made $81,000 in less than 2 months at CJ. I just blogged about it this morning. So there is still money to be made, it's not just the ones that got into programs early.

Many of our 5 star programs have cut individual commission checks for over 10K. Some of our programs are on CJ, some LinkShare, some Shareasale and some are in-house.

The key is not only finding the best HONEST, high paying programs but putting in the right amount of effort and knowledge to generate TONS of TARGETED traffic.

I am not that keen on Clickbank either.

The best thing to do is to keep with the larger affiliate networks.

You can find over 70 networks at: http://www.affiliateseeking.com

I say this because all of the merchants that you promote and sell products for within these networks, you will then receive just one large check from the affiliate network and not individual checks from the merchants.

Thanks. Will give it a try.