If you are a beginning affiliate marketer here are the places that you should go to sign up for Affiliate Programs:
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Join the LinkShare Referral Program for free!
These two sites alone have hundreds if not thousands of affiliate programs that you can promote and they are fairly easy to get approved for.
Guides to setting up a site using affiliate programs for beginners.?
Looking to make money online through affiliate programs but not sure where to start?
Here are a few tips:
1. Create a website. Yes, I realize that they will “give you a website” as an affiliate but it is the same site that everyone else has. You will never get ranked by the search engines that way. Create a site around that niche and give people real value so that they come, buy from you and trust you enough to buy from you again and again.
2. Check what types of website the affiliate program accepts. Each affiliate program has its own terms. Some companies running affiliate programs refuse to accept sites using free hosting such as Geocities. If you are thinking of a blog, check if the company you want accepts blogs.
Then you can decide on how you want your site hosted — whether you can start slowly and use a free hosting site or right from the start present a more professional image for the site with a paid hosting program. It is important to think of scalability — when your business starts to grow — and how it will affect your hosting needs. If you are in Geocities, and your site grows and now needs a better hosting platform with more bells and whistles, you may start from scratch again in terms of traffic generation because you will have a new domain name.
My suggestion is to get a real domain name, pay hosting and start the business right.
3. Select the affiliate program that is right for you. There are many affiliate programs to choose from. Also see how much each program pays out. It takes just as much effort to promote a program that pays you $2 as it does for one that pays you $100 per sale.