Hello,

As promised, I will be fol­low­ing up on some pas­sive income tac­tics using the inter­net, blog­ging, and affil­i­ate marketing.

As a starter, here is a great site that focuses on just affil­i­ate mar­ket­ing resources. I hope you guys find this ben­e­fi­cial. It’s great for new­bies and peo­ple who need a refresher.

“81 Use­ful Affil­i­ate Mar­ket­ing Resources

by Steven from Blogtrepreneur.com

Whilst the idea of sell­ing a prod­uct on behalf of another com­pany or per­son has existed for a long time, affil­i­ate mar­ket­ing itself was born in Novem­ber 2004, but has only really taken off in the past few years. New gen­er­a­tions of affil­i­ate mar­keters are rak­ing in mas­sive per month prof­its, and more peo­ple are start­ing to expe­ri­ence prof­its through this method. Here is a list (which is by no means defin­i­tive) to help you get started — please feel free to sug­gest any­more if you so wish!

Key­word Tools

If you are cre­at­ing web­sites, or even pages, to tar­get spe­cific affil­i­ate pro­grams you will need to know what key­words to tar­get. Addi­tion­ally, many affil­i­ates use PPC ads, which is heav­ily depen­dant on key­word research:

1. Google AdWords Key­word Tool — Get key­word sug­ges­tions with some search and com­pe­ti­tion stats.
2. Key­words Ana­lyzer — One of the lead­ing key­word tools, espe­cially for PPC mar­keters ($97).
3. Word­tracker — Another lead­ing key­word tool ($329 for one year sub­scrip­tion).
4. Wordze — Another subscription-based tool ($35/month).
5. Over­ture — A pop­u­lar key­word selec­tor tool.
6. SEO­Book — Sev­eral dif­fer­ent key­word tools.

Affil­i­ate Networks

Affil­i­ate net­works man­age the affil­i­ate pro­grams for hun­dreds or even thou­sands of dif­fer­ent com­pa­nies. They make it eas­ier for you by com­bin­ing pay­ment from mul­ti­ple pro­grams into one check and by giv­ing you one place to go to for man­age­ment of your campaigns:

1. Com­mis­sion Junc­tion — One of the largest net­works with a wide vari­ety of pro­grams.
2. Link­Share — Another large net­work that rep­re­sents many well-known com­pa­nies.
3. ClickBank.com — Exclu­sively down­load­able prod­ucts.
4. Pep­per­Jam Net­work — Read our review of Pep­per­Jam.
5. CX Dig­i­tal Media — Claims to con­vert bet­ter than any other affil­i­ate pro­gram.
6. Affil­i­ate­Bot — Hun­dreds of pro­grams to join.
7. 5 Star Affil­i­ate Pro­grams — Includes pro­grams such as Microsoft adCen­ter.
8. Share Results — Includes Pho­to­bucket and Real Net­works.
9. Azoog­leAds — Claims to be the largest performance-based online adver­tis­ing net­work.
10. NeverBlueAds — Another affil­i­ate net­work with a num­ber of choices.
11. Affil­i­ateWin­dow — Rep­re­sents a num­ber of large retail­ers.
12. Affil­i­ate Future — Rep­re­sents com­pa­nies in the US, Canada, UK, and Europe.
13. MaxBounty — Claims to have the high­est pay­ing CPA rates.
14. Copeac — A divi­sion of Inter­mark Media (inter­net mar­ket­ing company).

Affil­i­ate Pro­gram Directories

If you are search­ing for a spe­cific type of affil­i­ate pro­gram there are a num­ber of direc­to­ries that can help you find the right one:

1. AssociatePrograms.com Direc­tory — Over 10,000 pro­grams listed.
2. Affil­i­ates­Di­rec­tory — Over 7,000 pro­grams listed.
3. Affil­i­ateScout — Almost 3,000 pro­grams listed.
4. AffiliateMatch.com — Over 1,300 pro­grams listed.
5. Affil­i­ate­Seek­ing — A few thou­sand pro­grams listed.
6. 2-Tier.com — Direc­tory of 2-tier affil­i­ate programs.

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