This is a list of the most
popular affiliate
advertising program
providers. We have
concentrated on those who
provide a wide range of
affiliate schemes which you
can apply to join
and if successful, utilise
to add advertising to your
website.
Affiliate
Future - This
has a poor range of
programmes which tend to
be from lesser known
websites, many of which
are adult related.
Affiliate
Window
- Offer
a broad range of schemes
as well as
allowing you to easily
create a store front and
email templates
provided for many
advertisers.
Commission
Junction
(Europe
and
USA) - Provide the
widest range of affiliates
including GoToMyPC and
iPowerWeb. Payment is made
directly
to your bank account in your
local currency.
Deal
Media
Group - DGMPro (UK) -
Another good UK provider
of Affiliate Programmes
although their website
is not very
inspiring. Payments
made directly to your bank
account via BACS.
Digital
River - One Network
(Europe and USA) -
Provides some of the harder
to find affiliate
schemes, such as Symantec
(Norton Internet Security),
Kapersky
anti-virus and
LiveChat. Payments
made by cheque in US Dollars
(minimum 25USD ).
Element
5 (also provided by
Digital
River) - Provides the
affiliate scheme for
companies such as
Cyberlink, Grisoft's AVG
Anti-Virus and
CyberPatrol. Payments
made by cheque in US
Dollars, Euros or UK Pounds
(minimum 100 USD, 70
UKP).
Leadhound
OffersQuest
Paid
on Results (UK)
- Another UK based affiliate
scheme provider - wide range
of lesser
known merchants, includes La
Senza and Miller
Brothers. Payment
made direct to bank account
or by cheque - minimum only
£25.
Tradedoubler
(UK) -
One of the better UK based
programme providers
offering content units
(advertiser's text to
include on your
site, such as links to
latest offers).
Payment is made direct to
your bank account by
BACS. Tradedoubler
also includes the ability
to create a store front,
based on offers from the
affiliate schemes to which
you are signed up.
Another feature is
contextual advertising
(similar to Google
Adwords), whereby the
adverts shown on screen
are based on the words and
content of your webpage.
There are also numerous
sites which offer
adult affiliate marketing
schemes. However many
of these have earned a poor
reputation from
the very fact that people
have created websites with
no content other
than just links to these
schemes, and they fail to
use any sort of age
verification method or
promote any form of parental
control software to
protect minors from viewing
the highly explicit pictures
which can
appear on advertising
banners or on the front of
the sites which they
lead to.
As a result, many hosting
companies will not
allow the use of their
servers to store adult
material or even links to
adult websites.
The main problem with
creating such sites is that
most of the adult
orientated websites actually
utilise their own separate
affiliate
programs. This means
that you cannot go to a
single one-stop web
site to join several schemes
- instead you have to join
several
independent affiliate
schemes, each of which will
have their own
minimum payment levels and
methods of payment, thus
reducing your
chances of ever receiving
payment.
However, if you must, one
of the best known
adult affiliate scheme
providers is:
Clickcash - this operates
sites such as
iFriends and numerous webcam
based websites.
Finally we turn to payment,
although some of
these affiliate scheme
providers allow for a BACS
payment direct to your bank
account, quite
often you need to check the
small print very
carefully. Some will
only send payment in a
cheque in US dollars, which
here in the UK can
cost around £15 to
encash as well as taking a
long time to
clear. It is therefore
imperative that if you do
join a scheme
which only pays via cheque
in US dollars, that you can
set a high
minimum payout amount.