In order to maximize the money-making component of articles published to marketing websites, the owners of these sites must make sure that they integrate a variety of good affiliate links created to generate revenue. It’s important that website owners know where to find the most profitable affiliate programs, which in turn will assure them of obtaining the best affiliate products and services (‘products’) to place on their niche sites.
When an affiliate site owner chooses an affiliate product, it is important that s/he understands which companies are likely to be most reputable, reliable and profitable based on the frequency of product creation, service and likelihood of selling. While there are several types of affiliate programs and products in the marketplace to choose from, some will offer more money from a sale than others will.
However, before a website owner gets all hazy-eyed by big dollar signs, s/he must keep in mind that some products are bound to sell more than others, but it’s how they sell (frequency of sales), and what kind of profit they yield to the site owner. For examply, if an article marketer sells one $100 product from a little known company four times a year, or one $10 product from a well known company 3 times a week, income generated from the $10-per-sale product will far exceed that of the $100 product.
It has become a practice of large, well known companies to offer significantly less of a percentage or payment per sale than those offered by smaller, less popular companies, because the larger companies are more established and know that their product is likely to sell better, and probably faster. Small, lesser known companies on the other hand, need all of the promotion they can get and, therefore, offer bigger payments; because since they are unknown and less popular, their products are likely to sell less frequently.
For the article marketer in you, an important rule to remember when choosing affiliate products to promote on your site, is to select products that would be of interest to those who would likely visit your niche site. Otherwise you will be promoting a product to readers who do not want, or have any interest in what you are offering. A good example to help you remember this rule is: If your niche site targets parents of young children, then promote baby products; and if your niche site targets gardeners, it makes esense to promote gardening products.
You could see the obvious problem created by promoting baby products to gardeners, and gardening products to baby nurseries, right? If you engage in this type of impractical promotion, you are almost guaranteed not to make a penny in income no matter how much money the affiliate company offers for a sale.
In conclusion, we revisit paragraphs 1 and 2 which touched on how and where to find good affiliate programs/products. There are two basic methods of locating a good affiliate company for your niche website. First, you can sign up with a network that manages accounts of hundreds of companies, big and small, and apply for the products within these networks; or you can do a web search for companies and/or networks that would integrate well with your niche. Just visit their websites and see if they advertise an affiliate program. That’s it! So good luck!