Earning Money Online

Affiliates

Codes are as follows:
CJ = Commision Junction ..... RA = Revenue Avenue ..... RN = Reporting Net
LS = Link Share ..... In = Independent
See Affiliates page 1 for details on these


Company Description My comments
Commission Junction
CJ

20% of Sale (refer a merchant)
$1 per Lead (new affiliate) + 5% of their earnings
$0.05 per Click

Join the Commission Junction affiliate program!

These people consolidate companies for affiliates. Essentially, you get one check for all of them. You only have to deal with CJ's minimum payment. If you have 3 companies and you make $15 from one an $3 on anotherand $10 from the third, you get a check for $28, even though you didn't make minimum with any one of the companies.

You need cookies to use CJ, and anyone who has cookies disabled won't get you credit from them, but that is the only problem I've seen. I'd highly recommend them, because of the payment consolidation.

If you are a merchant, I'd also advise CJ. You only have to write them a check, they do all the tracking, and they don't require exclusive contract.

Revenue Avenue
RA
Another one who does payment consolidations. They prefer the larger sites, with lots of unique hits, but they do have some good companies associated with them. They have just reorganized and are only taking pay-per-lead and pay-per-sale companies now, no click-throughs. They were/are also Clicktrade, now running under bCentral, owned by MSN.

They have a good idea, I'm a bit cautious since they don't want smaller sites, and I am a smaller site. However, I'd still advise trying them, they may eventually realise that the small sites have a lot to offer that the big sites organized just to support advertising don't.

Li nkShare Referral Program
LS

Link Share is a reporting consolidator - you sign up for your companies, and they give you a one-stop shop for your income/tracking and so forth. But you must meet the minimums for each company you sign up with before you get a check. Best for a larger site with high traffic, they have a good selection of companies. Also known as linksynergy.com.

They have several of companies that I was linking anyway. This is a small site, I really have no idea if I'll ever make any money from of any of those companies, since many have fairly high limits.Can't hurt to try!
Reporting.Net
RN
Another reporting/tracking consolidator, with companies who pay independently. Again, probably best for larger sites, though the companies here are not as insistent on high site hits. Also a good set of companies on this one. Also known as BeFree.com. They don't seem to offer an affiliate program for themselves. Again, I joined them because of some companies I had links to anyway, and thought I might as well try to make some money for advertising them. They do have a good interface and a quite a few good programs.
Refer-it
In

The leading search engine for revenue sharing programs. They have a program that will let you keep track of all your affiliates anywhere. Quite handy. What they do best is link to a very large number of companies that offer programs, and rate them! And yes, of course they also have an affiliate program.

This is an extremely useful resource for someone who wants to be an affiliate. The rating system is based on company reliability, tracking system, pay scales and so forth. They just list and review the companies, who may be indepenedent, or linked through one of the above sites.
     
     
     
     
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This page was last Updated: 31 July, 2000