Having said that, a while back I bought The Keyword Crash Course. This is a course that Mark Butler and Courtney Tuttle have developed. The whole course was about starting Niche sites, monetizing them and getting free traffic from search egnines like Google. Although I was sure I knew 99% of the stuff they were going to teach (afterall, I make a good income from this stuff already!), I was hoping to learn a few tricks that would make me more money or save me time. I wasn’t disappointed in the course. In fact, I felt like the Course paid for itself within the first 30 minutes of watching the first video. By the way, the course cost $597. I’ve spent a lot more on courses that didn’t have near the amount of information in them.

If you know Court and Mark, then you know that they are honest and helpful. In fact, they’re some of the most honest and helpful people I’ve ever met on the Internet. Everything is laid out for you and they don’t hold anything back. (unlike a lot of courses I’ve bought!) In fact, I’ll go as far as saying the Keyword Crash Course is the most legitimate and easy to follow course I’ve bought. It’s a nuts and bolts Course that nearly anyone can follow and make money with. You can take a look at it by clicking here.

Within the first 30 minutes of the first video, Court describes how to find profitable keywords using “The Formula“. This was the bombshell that I had been looking for. Every once in a while, something will come along that makes you set back and take a deep breath, all the while thinking “Damn, this is what I’ve been searching for!” That is how I felt when Court showed me The Formula for evaluating profitable keywords.

I’ll tell you this also, when you start finding those little Gold nuggets of Keywords, it won’t take you long to figure out that you can use them to build Affiliate Sites rather than Adsense sites if that is what you want to do. If more people would use The Formula, there would be a lot less people failing at this game.

Before this, I had my own system for finding good Keywords, but it was hit and miss. Some keywords paid very well, while others fizzled. I still get some keywords that don’t pay when I use The Formula, but a lot less. By using Court’s Formula, I’ve been able to amass about 90 keywords that will turn into some very nice Niche sites.

Now Court and Mark have opened up the site to the Public and you can see everthing in the original Course for only $1 (yeah, the same Course I paid $597 for!)

Learn How To Make Money Online With The Keyword Crash Course

Whether you’re a beginner just starting out, or an advanced marketer, The Keyword Crash Course has something for you.

What You’ll Get For $1

You’ll be able to see the original course including the 10 training video’s. These video’s will take you step by step and show you how to pick profitable keywords for your niche site (using The Formula), setting WordPress, how and where to find backlinks, how to obtain content for your niche sites and how to set up Adsense and other advertising to make money from your sites.

Plus there is a little video at the end that will show you how to flip your new sites for Money. I found this one to be very interesting and something I may try down the road.

Why Are They Only Charging $1?

Court and Mark feel that once you’ve seen the quality of the training material, you’ll want to subscribe to their monthly service where they’ll be bringing you more information about building and ranking websites, live Webinars and live Q&A sessions. This subscription is $29 per month and totally optional. You can sign up for $1, get all the information that was in the original course for $597 and forget about the rest if you want to. They’re fine with that. They only want people who are serious about making money online.

People, if I could stear you to another course that I thought was better, one that taught you how to make money online with Niche sites, I would. But there is simply nothing out there as thorough and easy to follow that Court and Mark’s Keyword Crash Course. If you’re serious about learning how to make money online, this is one course you need to take. If after the course, you can’t make money online, then this business is probably not for you. That’s how good I believe this course is. And for only $1, you sure as hell won’t find a better bargain. Click here if you want to learn more and take advantage of this opportunity.

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While most web host will pay you between $25 and $100 per sign up, there are many Credit Card affiliate programs that will pay you $50 to $300 per sign up. Some of these affiliate programs will pay you every time someone fills out a credit card application while others just pay you whenever someonen you refer qualifies for a credit card.

Why Credit Card Affiliate Programs Can Be More Lucrative Than Web Hosting Affiliate Programs

Well, it’s simple really. How many people do you know need Web Hosting? Now how many people do you know need a Credit Card? Yeah, now you’re seeing the potential.

While you may have a hard time getting people to sign up under your webhosting affiliate program, simply because most people don’t need it, most credit card programs work well simply because you’ll be steering people to the sign up page with your affiliate link. Most of these programs have multiple cards to choose from, so if your Customer has bad credit, no problem, there’s a card for that. Do the want a credit card with reward points? No problem, most programs have those cards available. Have someone who wants a credit card with balance transfer? You guessed it, most programs have cards available for that also.

If you choose a Credit Card affiliate program that pays you per applications filled out, (which they pay around $2 to $5 per application), you may find that you can get more people filling out CC applications than are approved for the Cards. It just depends on what type of traffic you’re targeting.

Once you realize that it’s quite easy to steer people through your affiliate link, you start to realize the potential available to you to make money with these programs. In many cases, it’s as easy as putting your affiliate links where people who need credit cards will find them.

How To Get Started Making Money With Credit Card Affiliate Programs

There are a lot of credit card affiliate programs out there today. Due to the credit crisis we’ve fast over the last year or so, the number of credit card companies using affiliate programs has declined, but there are still plenty of others out there to make this a profitable venture.

One program that Beginners can get started in the Credit Card Affiliate business with is My Credit Card Cash. When you sign up with them, they give you a website already pre-populated with nearly 100 card offers. All that you must due is to promote your affiliate website url. Since they’ve already made the site for you, there’s no site building or other technical knowledge required.

Then, each time someone goes through your website and is approved for a credit card, you earn a commission. Some of these cards have a payout as much as $121. Most are in the $30 to $75 range. It doesn’t take long to see that there is a lot of potential here.

As of this writing, they’re offering a 14  day trial for $1. After that, they’ll charge you $37 per month until 4 people have been approved for credit cards through your website, then it’s free. I was able to get 4 sign ups easily within the 14 day trial so my website was free. Click here to learn more about this program.

Most of these types of programs will charge a fee until you have a certain number of sign ups through your website. This is in part to keep people from signing up for their affiliate program and then doing nothing. They only want Affiliate Marketers who will be promoting their affiliate sites. This is why most will give you the website after you’ve signed up a certain number of people that are approved for a credit card.

Ways To Promot Your Own Credit Card Website

The nice thing that I like with credit card affiliate programs is that offline promotion is very effective. Once I had my website, I went and had some free business cards made up. The first batch simply said “Bad Credit? Need A Credit Card?” across the middle of the business card in bold print. Below that my Website url.  I had 500 business cards made up the first time and left these everywhere I went. Grocery stores, drive-in’s, bulletin boards around various  businesses (especially cafe’s) and so on. This is how I managed to get 7 sign-ups within my 14 day trial.

And that’s the trick to making credit card affiliate programs pay off, just as with any affiliate program, get your affiliate link in front people who want what you have to offer.

You could try having some free biz cards made up with your affiliate URL on them and then leaving them every place around your town. Laundry Mats, C Stores, Cafe’s…a lot of these places have community bulletin boards and would be worth a try.

Although I haven’t tried it yet, a Classified Ad in small Local and Regional newspapers may also do just as good. In my area, I could take out one ad and have it placed in 8 different local community newspapers for about $90 per month.

Ways To Promote Your Credit Card Website Online

Now that I’ve showed you a few effective ways to market you credit card affiliate website offline, let me show you a few ways to do it online.

Basically, the way I started out marketing my own credit card affiliate website was the same method I used in the January $2500 Challenge. I signed up in several forums and answered questions about debt, finance, family related questions and questions about credit cards. My signature had a link to my site in it. In some post, where it was relevant, I left a link to my site.

I also promoted my affiliate website on Yahoo Answers and Wiki’s whenever I answered a question and where a link made sense and was helpful. If you go in and start throwing links all over the place, you’ll be banned in no time flat for spamming, as you should be.

Another good way to promote your affiliate link is through article marketing as well as building a network of sites over family and personal finance. Although this will take a while, once you have the traffic coming in, this could be a very good money earner.

And that’s how I make money with Credit Card Affiliate Programs. I did it for a while and once you get your system down, I think you’ll find that this is a pretty good way to earn income. I find it a lot easier than promoting some other affiliate programs, but everyone is different. You may find it more difficult or easier. If nothing else, sign up for a trial and give it a try to see if you’ll like it. You never know, you might have a big earner on your hands.

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These affiliate programs are in no certain order, I’m adding them as they come to me.

Ebay

There is so many ways to make money with ebay, it’s almost unreal. I’m not aware of another company with as many ways to make money with their affiliate program like you can with Ebay. Not even Amazon has as many ways. Many of us continue to make good coin with the eBay affiliate program. Now there are programs like PHPBay where you can insert ebay auctions into blogs or hard code them into any website. You can also use all the tools on the ebay publisher to customize the way you want to present ebay auctions. The different ways you can make money from Ebay is staggering. If you don’t have an account already, get one and familiarize yourself with their affiliate marketing tools.

If you would like to have an Online store selling eBay and other items, then give ProStores a look. They’re an eBay company and offer different packages for people wanting to start their own online business. They’re currently offering a one month free trial. Click here to get your free trial —> One Month Free Trial! ProStores – an eBay Company

Clickbank

Love them or hate them, the bottom line is you can make a lot of money with ClickBank. You simply have to learn to choose a product that others want and then create a site to sell this one product. The biggest mistake I see many ClickBank beginners make is they try and sell everything ClickBank has with just a few pages on a copied website. It ain’t gonna happen folks! Choose a product that you’ve used and one you like. Create a main website or blog about this one product and then build a network of smaller websites and blogs to support the main one, build links to the main site by article marketing, blog commenting on DoFollow blogs and submit the post from all your blogs to the Social Media crowd (for backlinks). Use places such as Mixx, HubPages, Squidoo and Propeller to create pages or submit articles about your one specific product. Use good quality content (with long articles that are keyword optimized) to build you main website and the traffic will come. I know it sounds like a lot of work and it is. I didn’t say this would be a list of get rich quick top affiliate programs!

AdSense

Yeah, I know technically that adsense is not an affiliate program, but it’s still one of the easiest, if not THE easiest way to make money online.

All you have to do is pick a niche that you know something about, write good articles about every aspect of this niche, throw a 336×228 ad block at the top and a 120 or 160 adsense block in the sidebar and sit back and rake in the money. The more content and traffic you have, the more money you make. It’s really that simple!

I typically spend 20% of my time creating content and the other 80% promoting my sites, which basically means building links to them. Once you have your site SEO optimized, the most important next step is to build links, build links and then build some more links back to your site!

Many so called “guru’s” tend to make AdSense harder than it is. Some of this is because they’re trying to sell you their “Get rich quick with adsense” ebook, some of it is because they just don’t know any better.

Look people, don’t over think adsense, it’s not that hard!

Independent Affiliate Programs

Some of the biggest money being made on the Internet isn’t through the Affiliate Networks like Commission Junction or ShareASale. It’s being made through independent affiliate programs. Independent affiliate programs are in-house programs that a Merchant runs their self.

Generally, independent affiliate programs pay a higher commission since some of their money doesn’t have to go to affiliate networks. If you can drive a lot of niche specific traffic your favorite independent affiliate program, you can expect to make more than through the affiliate networks.

There are independent affiliate programs for nearly every sector of the Internet. One I like for a couple of my Outdoor related websites is GunsAmerica. Yeah, you can make money selling guns on the Internet. That’s pretty sweet! You can be your own Internet gun runner! LOL

Sometimes it takes a little more to find these independent programs, you’ll just have to search harder. Many Wedding Affiliate Programs are independent and generally pay more than their affiliate network competition. A lot of Webhosting companies have both independent affiliate programs as well as belonging to an affiliate network. Compare the payouts for each program and you’ll see most pay out more on their in-house programs.

Run Your Own Affiliate Program

Have you ever wished you had a lot of affiliate marketers pushing your product? Well you can!

When you run your own affiliate program, you split the money with the affiliates and that’s it. No one else has their hands sticking out.

This is generally the most lucrative for you plus it leaves you free to keep producing other services or products to sell.

“But I don’t have a product or service to sell” you say.

Fear not, there are places where you can have products made for you or you can buy products with Master Resell Rights, brand them with your name and then resell them under your own affiliate network.

Have you ever wondered how the big name Guru’s are able to turn out ebook after ebook or software program after software program? Simple. The hire it done.

Many use the services of eLance or RentACoder. Others have writers or developers at their fingertips. All it takes is a small investment to have someone write you a professional ebook or software program. You then can market it yourself and keep all the profits or split it with your affiliates.

Another easier and cheaper way is to buy products or services with Master Resell Rights or Private Label Rights (PLR). You can find many products and services with Master Resell Rights or Private Label Rights at websites like BestChoiceForEbooks. Once you find a product or service you like, buy it and brand it with you own name and begin marketing it.

You could even start your own store with all the ebooks, software and other products they offer.

What? How Come I Didn’t Mention Amazon.Com?

I know many of you may be wondering why I didn’t list Amazon.com in this Top Affiliate Program post.

It’s simple really.

Although I make some coin from Amazon.com as do others, it doesn’t convert as well as other programs in many instances. Every website I’ve had plus those of many affiliate marketers I know that run Amazon, have higher conversions with other affiliate programs. It takes a load of traffic to make Amazon work and many people starting out do not have the hoards of traffic needed to make Amazon pay off. And if you do have the traffic, then chances are there’s a higher paying affiliate program you could be using. Heck, even AdSense generally pays off more than Amazon.

Okay, so this is your top affiliate programs. Maybe not what you wanted to see. I know many of you wanted specific affiliate programs. But the truth is, nearly any affiliate program from the affiliate networks can be a top affiliate program if you have passion for it, believe in the product or service and are able to drive targeted traffic to your site. That’s the real “secret” behind affiliate marketing. It’s a proven fact that you’ll be able to sell a product better if you use it and love it!

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Everyone knows that June is the prime month for Weddings. That means if you haven’t already started monetizing your site for Wedding affiliate programs, you need to start…today!

The Wedding industry is a monster. It has so many verticals, the ways to make money off of them are nearly endless. But be warned, this is one competitive industry! There are some large websites out there that will be hard to compete against.

You’ll find Wedding affiliate programs for the obvious things like Wedding Favors, Tuxedo’s and Wedding Dresses but you’ll also find affiliate programs for everything from workout programs, wedding planning, wedding websites to Honeymoon trips.

Before we talk about tactics, let’s look at a few of the big players in the Wedding Affiliate Program game.

Beau-coup – Beau-coup claims to be the leading online retailer of unique Wedding and Bridal Favors. They have a 90 day cookie and a 10% commission on each sale. You can find them at ShareASale.

One of the things I really like about Beau-Coup is that they offer free shipping on orders of $150 or more. Free Shipping really gets people to buy stuff they normally wouldn’t.

American Bridal Accessories – ABA claims to over the most diverse product line of wedding accessories. They are paired with the LinkConnector Affiliate Network. ABA offers 10% commission on products that your traffic buys. They also have a minimum payout of $25.

One thing I found odd about American Bridal Accessories is that they exclude all camera sales by their affiliates. If you feel cameras would be a strong part of your affiliate commissions, you may want to look at another merchant.

My Wedding Favors – MWF pays a 12% commission and has a 120 day tracking cooking. I really like these long tracking cookies! PLUS, unlike some other affiliate programs, you get paid every time your customer reorders in that 120 day time period, not just once! This could really add some dough to your bottom line.

My Wedding Favors also offers data feeds. This will be very helpful if you want to set up a Wedding Favor type shop or just add another niche to your already existing store. They offer to send your money to you through the mail or direct deposit into your checking account.

You can find MWF in the CJ, ShareASale and AvantLink affiliate networks.

Bliss Weddings Market – BWM offers a 10% sales commission and a 90 day tracking cookie. BWM also offers its affiliate data feeds and SEO optimized dynamic tools.

Bliss Weddings Market carries a full line of Wedding Accessories and Gifts, many of them unique. You can find Bliss Weddings Market at the AvantLink affiliate network.

HansonEllis Bridal Gifts – HansonEllis is in CJ and AffiliateFuture affiliate networks. They pay 10% on orders and have a 120 day cookie. They were formerly known as OnlineFavors.com.

One thing I especially like about this company is all the publicity that it gets. It was voted by Brides Magazine as one of the best Wedding websites plus they’ve been feature on NBC’s Today show and in several newspapers and magazines. This builds brand awareness and can be the difference between someone placing a big order through your site or moving on to another.

Like I said earlier, there are tons of Wedding related companies with affiliate programs and they’re easy to find on Google.

Strategies To Optimize Your Site for a Wedding Affiliate Program

You don’t have to have a website or blog dedicated totally to Weddings to take advantage of these Wedding affiliate programs. In fact, I know a lady who makes over 1k a month off of Wedding affiliate programs and she has a diary type blog. Whenever she mentions something about a wedding in one of her blog post, she inserts links to her merchant. She blogs about Women’s issues so her blog is just right for this niche.

Another friend of mine has a Sports blog. Again, every-time he mentions a buddy of his getting married, he sends his readers to a Wedding merchant. Each year he has a post about gifts for Men to give to the Newlyweds. His readers love it.

You can monetize this Niche with just about any type of blog or website you run. You just need to think outside the box!

Here are a few ideas for monetizing this Niche.

• Follow the common practice of writing an article on a Wedding topic, making sure you SEO optimize the page, publish it and then start building up relevent links to it with targeted anchor text.
• You could also use this article as a landing page and then send traffic to it by using a PPC campaign like Adwords.
• Browse forums related to Women’s Issues and drop post and/or links back to your article. Just don’t be spammy about it. Be helpful and you’ll see some substantial traffic.
• Don’t try to compete with the big boys. Select longtail keywords and optimize your pages for those. If you’re doing PPC, then target the lesser keywords. They’ll be cheaper. For example, if you targeted the keyword “Wedding Favors”, you’ll pay around $2.30 per click currently. However, if you targeted “Wedding Invites”, you’ll pay around 80 cents per click. The longer the search phrases become, the cheaper they are.
• Don’t forget about Adsense. If you’re a lazy ass affiliate marketer (I’m guilty of that at times ) and just want to score some big Adsense clicks, you could go to DigitalPoint or other places and have someone write you a 1000 word article on a specific wedding product or service. I’d expect to pay $10 or so for that article. Throw it up on your site, optimize it for Adsense and then promote the hell out of it. Could be some of the easiest money you’ll make if you rank well!

The point is to get you thinking outside the box and taking advantage of these seasonal opportunities to boost your cash flow. Who knows, maybe you can turn it into a whole new business. After all, like I said before, there’s plenty of Wedding affiliate programs to go around!

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If the truth were known, most people make little money off of Web Hosting affiliate programs. Most bloggers and some Webmasters just stick a banner or text link from their host provider on their sites and get a few conversions over a period of time.

Unless you’re prepared to enter the affiliate marketing hell, that’s probably the best way to do it!

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How I chose the 21 Top Paying Web Hosting Affiliate Programs

It would have been easy to just search web hosting companies and find who pays the most and stick their names here. But there’s more to choosing a winning affiliate program than simply picking the company that pays the most.

Even if you have a Web Host provider paying $200 per sign up, it doesn’t mean squat unless they can convert traffic!

Here are the factors I looked at when choosing the 21 Top Paying Web Hosting Affiliate Programs.

• I only went with web hosting companies that were under affiliate networks (CJ has the most that I’m aware of). When I go looking at stats, I want to go to only a few websites, not 10 or 15 different sites to see how much money I’ve made. Plus I feel like (for the most part) that the Networks will keep the Web Host honest as far as reporting goes. (I know for a fact that Sharasale will)
• I looked at the 3 month Network earnings for each provider. Any affiliate program can have a few big sales in a week that will inflate their 7 day earnings per click. I want to see how a program has performed over time. A high Network earnings number means there are people making money from the affiliate program.
• Not all Networks report reversals. Shareasale does and I take that into account when I can find the number. What good is it if you make 90 sales and have 89 of them reversed?
• Terms. Some web hosting companies make it easy to make a sale. Some make it difficult plus some only pay on a hosting sign up while others pay you on everything from Domain names to SSL certificates. Some will not allow you to use PPC and some will not let you use email. It pays (pun intended) to read the terms before signing up!
• Of course I looked at how much each company pays per sign up. That should be the last number you look at. There are companies paying out $150 per sign up, but their websites don’t convert. Then you may have a company who only pays out $75, but their sites converts you traffic into sign ups like crazy. Who would you rather be signed up with?
• Referal length. Sometimes a person doesn’t sign up right away with a web hosting company. It may take them a month or more to decide to buy web hosting. If they go to your web host 32 days after their first visit and sign up for web hosting, I want that commission! I like long referral periods!

So, without further ado…drum roll please…I bring you AffiliateWatcher.Com’s pick of the 21 Top Paying Web Hosting Affiliate Programs! (in no certain order)

DreamHost - (Independent program, click here to go to their website for more details)
Referral length: N/A
Commission amount: $97 or 10%
Incentives:
Comments: DreamHost has probably one of the most unique affiliate programs of any web hosting provider. You have two choices when signing up. Either a one time payment of $97 for everyone you sign up plus $5 for every that your referrals sign up or you can opt for 10% of all fees paid by your referrals to DreamHost for as long as they are customers plus you’ll get 5% of any fees of the people your referral signs up. This can be a very lucrative web hosting affiliate program for those of you sending a lot of referrals! It’s one of my favorites.
Affiliate Network: Independent

HostRocket
Commission amount: $150
Incentives: HostRocket has a traditional incentive program. The more you sell, the more you make. I like that incentive! One of the highest paying Web Hosting companies on the web!
Affiliate Network: Independent

TechnoHosting
Referral length: 45 days
Commission amount: $80
Incentives:
Comments: Customer must remain a client for at least 31 days in order to qualify for referral fee.
Affiliate Network: CJ

1&1 Hosting
Click Here to visit their website for more information or to sign up.
Referral length: 120 days
Commission amount: $2.50 to $300
Incentives:For commissions exceeding $1000 you can receive a 1 time bonus of $100
Comments: Actions lock 60 days after the event. NO Junk Traffic, Email Spam, or Search Engine Spam allowed. No PPC marketing allowed w/o approval. Very lucrative for affiliate marketers who can send quality traffit to 1 and 1 hosting.
Affiliate Network: CJ

WebsiteSource
Referral length: 45 days
Commission amount: $85
Incentives:
Comments:
Affiliate Network: CJ

WebHosting Pad

Referral length: 120 days
Commission amount: $100 to $125
Incentives:
Comments:They include many free and unlimited services with their accounts which makes them very popular with people looking for low cost web hosting. This makes sign ups easeir for the affiliate marketer.
Affiliate Network: CJ

Apollo Hosting
Referral length: 45 days
Commission amount: $70
Incentives: For Number of Actions equal to or greater than 10 increase commission by 5.00%. For Number of Actions equal to or greater than 25 increase commission by 10.00%
Comments:
Affiliate Network: CJ

Netfirms
Referral length: 60 days
Commission amount: $30 to $115 per sale. $2 for every domain registered.
Incentives:
Comments: No PPC marketing allowed w/o approval.
Affiliate Network: CJ

Gate.com
Referral length: 45 days
Commission amount: $30 to $115 per sale. $2 for every domain registered.
Incentives:
Comments: No PPC marketing allowed w/o approval.
Affiliate Network: CJ

Dotster.com

Referral length: 90 days
Commission amount: $100 on hosting plans, 20-30% on other products
Incentives: Many different incentive plans depending on the product.
Comments:Very popular with many affiliate marketers due to their incentive programs and varing levels of payout.
Affiliate Network: CJ

BlueHost
Referral length: 120 days
Commission amount: $120
Incentives:
Comments:
Affiliate Network: CJ

EasyCGI.com Web Hosting

Referral length: 120 days
Commission amount: $110 to $150
Incentives:
Comments: For Number of Actions equal to or greater than 25 receive one time bonus of $250.00 USD, greater than 50 receive one time bonus of $500.00 USD, greater than 100 receive one time bonus of $1,000.00 USD. Very popular due to referral length and the amount of payout.
Affiliate Network: CJ

HostMonster

Referral length: 45 days
Commission amount: $90
Incentives:
Comments: This is a very popular web host for Affiliate Marketers because of the ability to host unlimited amount of websites on 1 account.
Affiliate Network: CJ

ixWebhosting
Referral length: 60 days
Commission amount: $50 to $150
Incentives:
Comments:Claims to have CJ’s #1 converting affiliate program. Pays out on several products and services.
Affiliate Network: CJ

www.GoDaddy.com

Referral length: 45 days
Commission amount: $30 to $105
Incentives:Godaddy offers plenty of Incentives, too numerous to list here. Just make sure you use a GoDaddy Promo Code to save money on your initial setup.
Comments:They only pay one time per occurrence which is odd considering many others pay for unlimited occurrences. This can limit your ability to make money with Goddady. Still, it’s probably the easiest for Newcomers to make money with due to all the products and services they pay on, including their domain auctions. Worth a try due to this reason and the fact that they have a strong brand name recognized by many “none techie” people.
Affiliate Network: CJ

Homestead
Referral length: 60 days
Commission amount: $80 – $100
Incentives: Base starts at $80, more than 10 actions, commission increases to $90, more than 25, commission increases to $100 per action
Comments: Several packages for a visitor to choose from
Affiliate Network:Linkshare

PC Digital
Referral length: unknown, contact affiliate manager
Commission amount: $ 73
Incentives:
Comments: accepts traffic from all countries. Commissions are for a sign up under the 1 to 2 year plan. Commissions for the 3 to 6 month plan are $51.
Affiliate Network:Azoogle

Ultra Website Hosting – Flux Services
Referral length: NEVER EXPIRES!
Commission amount: 500% – Yes you read correctly
Incentives:
Comments:
Affiliate Network: Sharasale

PowWeb.com

Referral length: 120 days
Commission amount: $95 per sale
Incentives:
Comments: Good long term Network earnings per click. Excellent referral length, one of the the best in the Industry.
Affiliate Network: CJ

EasyASPHosting
Referral length: 90 days
Commission amount: 35% per sale
Incentives:
Comments: High 7 and 30 day sales and commissions
Affiliate Network: Sharasale

ServPro Web Hosting
Referral length: 120 days
Commission amount: $30 per sale
Incentives:
Comments: Nice earnings Network wide despite the $30 payout
Affiliate Network: Sharasale

Okay, so there you have it. My pick of the 21 top paying web hosting affiliate programs. Remember, do your research before joining up. You can also go to most of the Web Hosting company web site’s and join there, although you won’t be joining through an Affiliate Network in most cases.

You should only pick one or two Web Hosting companies to begin with. It will be easier to track the stats and make sales. Good luck and I hope you’ve found this list helpful!

21 top paying web hosting affiliate programs

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Update to the Update! Currently I can not recommend the Build A Niche Store program to my readers. Here’s why. Google has been deindexing many BANS sites, mine included. They apparently do not like the fact that this is a script that auto generates web pages with affiliate links on them (the ebay ads). However, Yahoo and Bing seem to still be ranking these sites and I’m still making money with them, but not near as much as I was when they were indexed in the top pages of Google.

If you’re looking for a legitimate way to create an eBay store where you can sell real products, I recommend Pro Stores. Currently they’re giving a free month trial for you to try it out. Use this link for your free trial – One Month Free Trial! ProStores – an eBay Company

Since I wrote the Build A Niche Store Review, I’ve had quite a few emails asking me to give everyone an update on how my Build A Niche Store‘s are doing, what techniques are working, which one’s aren’t, etc. I can say that the Build A Niche Store is still working for me, but a few of my sites have cooled off.

Currently I have 19 Build A Niche Store sites. These sites range from 11 pages up to over 40 pages. It all depends on the niche and how many categories ebay has for them.

Some of the first stores I built have dropped a little in the rankings as I’ve slowed down adding new content to them during December and January.

Last month my best performing Build A Niche Store did over $150 in commissions while the least performing store did just over $15. Sadly, this poor performer was a store I thought would be a great niche, but as it turns out, it’s a very competitive craft niche. This means I’m going to have to work very hard at building quality backlinks to this store to get it boosted in the rankings.

I didn’t follow my own advice when choosing this niche. It just “came to me” one night and I quickly looked up how many searches were being done for this particular niche and thought “Geez, this would make a great Build A Niche Store site.” The problem is, had I researched it a little further I would have found that the Niche has a lot of freebie websites out there giving away many of the same craft products I’m trying to sell on my BANS site plus many of these sites were built back in the late 90′s and early 2000′s by hobby Webmasters. This means they have their age working for them not to mention hundreds of old backlinks pointing toward them. DO YOUR RESEARCH!

On a very happy note, a few nights ago one of my sites turned in a $84 commission on one sale! That’s the best commission I’ve ever received from any of my Build A Niche Store sites.

Ways I’m Promoting My Build A Niche Store Sites

I’m promoting my Build A Niche Store sites just like I have any other website that I’ve owned or worked on. I’m building links slowly so they look natural. I’m using all of the Social Networking sites plus participating in forums that relate to the BANS sites I have.

One of the most effective techniques that I’ve used is buying advertising on other sites. You know the old adage of “It takes money to make money?” Well, I’m here to tell you that it works for BANS sites just as well. I’ve bought banner ads on several forums and other sites relevant to several of my Build A Niche Store sites.

I haven’t done much promoting through PPC. Most of the paid traffic has come through advertising on other sites.

Article Marketing is by far and away my best FREE* advertising to date. If you’re not using a service like Article Marketer to submit your articles to hundreds of places on the Internet, then you’re leaving a lot of traffic on the table.

It’s so damn funny to hear “Guru’s” say article marketing is dead and does not work any longer. Good for them, it means that there’s a tad bit less competition out there! Meanwhile my BANS sites are gaining backlinks and traffic!

*I say “FREE” because you can submit your articles to many directories manually for free. I prefer to pay a few bucks to Article Marketer and automate the process by sending one article to hundreds of places. You gotta work smart!

I’ve also went to DigitalPoint forums and paid someone to manually submit some of my BANS stores to Internet Directories. This has resulted in some nice backlinks as well. Eventually I’ll have all my stores in the free directories then I’ll start focusing on using some paid directories for more authority backlinks.

As I stated above, some of the Social Networking sites are sending good traffic to my sites. You’ll be surprised at how many old ladies use StumbleUpon!

Future Plans For My Build A Niche Store’s

Honestly I believe that I’m building stores faster than I can promote them properly. That’s okay because I can always come back and work on them later. There’s no problem in letting these stores sit and age for a while.

Speaking of aging, I’ve began buying expired domains and just uploading a BANS site to them, changing the colors and adding a header graphic and letting them sit until I can get back to promoting them and SEO’ing the pages. This is working damn good actually! If you have any domains parked somewhere, bring them out of moth balls and add a BANS site to them.

What Hasn’t Worked So Well On My BANS Sites

Unfortunately, Adsense has really sucked on these sites. While some have spikes in CTR, most of the CTR’s are lower than 3%. When your CTR starts averaging less than 3%, it can pull down all your Adsense sites due to Smart Pricing.

I’ve actually started pulling Adsense off of many of my Build A Niche Store sites. Now I do have to tell you that all my Adsense ads are at the lower left sidebar. This is a poor place to put Adsense on any site, so I’m not blaming Adsense entirely.

The reason that they are there is because I also use either affiliate programs and/or Clickbank products on the right side. These have been a big boost to the overall income of my BANS sites. They pay a helluva lot more than Adsense. In fact, I’ll go out on a limb and say that Adsense ads on a BANS site is a poor move.

If you just have to have some type of pay per click advertising, check out these Adsense alternatives.

Build A Niche Store Project Summary

Okay, while most of my sites aren’t doing as well as I hoped (don’t we all have high hopes for our websites?), at the end of the day they’re still making money. They’re paying for their domains and hosting and some are doing much, much better than that. I have a few niche’s that aren’t paying off as I’d hoped. Having said that, I have some small Niches I thought would be ugly ducklings turn out to be beautiful cash generating Princesses!

Some of the first stores I built will be coming out of the Sandbox in the next month or so. So be watching for an update as my older sites start kicking SERP tail.

Also, I’ve had some really nice surprises with the PHPBay wordpress plugin. I’ll give you an update on that in the next day or so.

Don’t Forget The Special Report Bonus

The Special Report “How To Maximize Profits With Ebay Affiliate Programs” is still being offered when buying your BANS program through this site. Read my Build A Niche Store Review for the details. It has many more techniques and tactics for building profitable BANS sites.

If you haven’t looked over the features of the Build A Niche Store program, click here to see them now.

Build A Niche Store – Update

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The list below is only a few Halloween affiliate programs that you can take advantage of Halloween with.

Halloween Affiliate Programs To Make Money With

• HalloweenCostumes4U – This company has over 12,000 items plus it has 4 websites for you to promote. The pay out 10% and have a 30 day cookie.
• OyaCostumes- Oya also pays out 10% but they offer a 90 tracking cookie. They can accept orders Worldwide.
• BuyCostumes- Another costume company that offers 10% commissions. They’re currently running their Annual “Super Affiliate Sweepstakes” where you could win 1 of 2 $10,000 give-a-ways. From Sept. 1st to Oct. 31st, for every dollar you sell, you get a ticket into the drawing. They have a whopping 120 day cookie.
• ExtremeHalloweenNetwork – Extreme Halloween Network also offers a 10% commission on sales and advertises that it has no reversals. Pretty sweet! The Network is made up of 11 sites. If you reach $750 in sales, your commission increases to 12%, reach $2500 and your commission jumps to 15%.
• AnyTimeCostumes- They have a base pay out commission of 10%. Sell $500 and it jumps to 11%, make it to $2000 and the commission is 12%. They also advertise Custom commission rates for Super Affiliates! They also offer a Bonus based on annual sales. No charge-backs to the Affiliates and they have a 120 day cookie. Worth checking out!
• MoonCostumes- Offers a 10% payout along with a two-tiered program. This means if another affiliate signs up under you, you get a cut of the their commission. If you sign up a couple Super Affiliates, this could make you more money than the commissions you make!
• CostumeCity – They pay 12% up to 5k a month in sales and 15% once you go above 5k per month in sales. They also have a 90 day cookie.

There are plenty of other affiliate programs aimed at Halloween. The list of Halloween related affiliate programs above should get you to thinking about the income opportunity of having a page…or website…dedicated to making money with Halloween affiliate programs.

Also, on another note, don’t forget to read my article on getting ready for the Christmas season I posted a while back. I know some of you are procrastinating…don’t! You can make a years salary in a few short Months, starting now. I already know people who are Christmas shopping!

Okay, this is where I should make a catchy, cool statement about Halloween, but it’s 5 a.m. right now and I’m too sleepy!

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Joe Bucks makes getting started in affiliate marketing relatively easy.

Some affiliate programs just give you an affiliate link and send you on your way. Some may give you a few banners or text links to use. This may be okay if you’ve been in affiliate marketing for years and know what you’re doing, but it can be confusing and difficult if you’re just getting started.

The Joe Bucks Affiliate Program is different in that it gives new affiliate marketers and advanced marketers many tools to choose from.

Joe Bucks Affiliate Program Makes It Easy For New and Advanced Marketers To Make Money

Some of the tools and benefits available to affiliate marketers through the Joe Bucks Affiliate Program include:

• Over 50 pre-made websites to start marketing immediately
• Hundreds of health and beauty products to market
• 50% payout for each sale, 50% payout for REORDERS (this is huge as most affiliate programs do not offer payouts on reorders) and 5% payout to Webmasters for referrals
• State of the Art marketing materials to help you succeed
• Google, Yahoo and MSN conversion tracking
• Hidden affiliate link technology means no more stolen commissions by Parasites!
• Unlimited free web-hosting accounts
• Commissions paid on Phone Orders AND Online purchases! This means you can use offline techniques to market your business which leads to larger paychecks!
• Bi-Weekly payouts means you get paid twice per month ANDthey’ll make payments to your PayPal account, which I prefer. They also offer payment via Bankwire, Pre-Paid Debit Cards and Checks by Mail. That’s sweeet!

Now, if this doesn’t get your affiliate marketing juices flowing or if you’re still unsure whether or not you can make money with all the tools and benefits above, then Joe Bucks has one more program that is aimed at people who are new to affiliate marketing and online marketing.

The HerbalBiz Affiliate Program

Joe Bucks has an affiliate program for new affiliate marketers. It’s call HerbalBiz. New marketers choose one of two programs with HerbalBiz. You’re charged either a one time set up fee of $1.95 or or $49.95 depending on which one you choose.

The $1.95 option gets you:

• a fully loaded Herbal Biz website preloaded with Health and Beauty products
• a business card template
• marketing flyer template
• Web banners & buttons
• Internet marketing resource center
• eBook on Online Marketing

The $49.95 option gives you all the items listed above, plus the following.

• Your own dedicated domain name
• Your own Toll free 800# and Call Center to take phone orders for you 24/7
• One year of web hosting for your dedicated domain name

Now you have a all the tools you need to start making money immediately on the Internet, Offline and from home!

The Joe Bucks Affiliate Program is a great program to get started with or to add to your stable of affiliate programs to increase your income. The advantage of these programs is that they give you all the tools you need to get started so you can concentrate your efforts on marketing and driving traffic to your sales page. Leave the website creation and all the other mundane task to them!

Click here to find out more about the HerbalBiz Affiliate Program or click here to learn how to start making money with the Joe Bucks Affiliate Program. They do everything except hold you hand, and they’d probably do that if you asked! LOL

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Waiting To The Last Minute Can Cost You Money

I can’t tell you how many people wait until after Thanksgiving to start thinking about the Holiday season and what they should be doing to prepare their websites to take advantage of it. Here’s a little tip: if you don’t have your website or blog ready by Thanksgiving, it’s too late!

Once a year you have an opportunity just like retail shops to take advantage of Holiday shoppers. For some retailers, the Holiday season is what carries them through the entire year. For website owners, the Holiday season is what can make you stand out from a crowd and fill your bank account.

Tips to Take Advantage of the Holiday Shopping Season

Here are a few tips you can use to optimize your Holiday marketing plan and your website.

• Review your affiliate programs – If you had the same affiliate programs last Holiday season, review your data and see which ones performed and which ones didn’t. Kick the low performers to the curb and start looking at new affiliate programs to join.
• Review Past Traffic Patterns- Hopefully you know where your traffic came from last Holiday season. Make a marketing plan to increase this traffic this year. Last year I had one source of traffic that out produced others by 2 to 1 to my Tool site. However, that source was very low converting. I had another traffic source that sent less traffic, but the shoppers converted very, very well. Guess which source I’m going to spend more time optimizing this pre-season?
• Make Changes to your Website or Blog NOW – Don’t wait until the last minute to change up your website or blog if you’re going to. It may take weeks or even a month for the new changes to show up in the Search Engines. It may take that long for a new keyword your trying to rank for to work it’s way up the SERPS. Build links to your affiliate product pages and write articles for article marketing now! Putting it off until November is a good way to miss the money boat!
• What’s Hot and What’s Not? – Have you looked into what the hottest item in your niche is? What’s the hottest toy this year or the one cool electronic gizmo everyone must have? Now’s the time to start optimizing some of your pages for this hot item. One way you can keep abreast of what’s going on is to go to Google and sign up for Google Alerts. Just use your hot keyword and Google will send you alerts everyday on where, and how, this item is mentioned. Trying to push what was a hot Christmas toy 2 years ago is leaving money on the table!
• Budget for a PPC Campaign – If you don’t normally run ads on Google Adwordsor similar PPC programs,  you might want to think about it. Google Adwords can do wonders for your affiliate marketing. If you are already a user, plan on budgeting a lot more for the Holiday season, twice the amount your normally do is a good beginning. Remember, this is a one time-per-year deal and you want to take full advantage of it.

Even If You’re Not An Affiliate Marketer You Can Take Advantage of the Holiday Season

Even non-affiliate marketers can capitalize on the Holidays. Even if you have a plain Jane personal blog, think about stories or articles you can start writing now to take advantage of the Seasons.

Plan these articles out and start posting them in October. Every Thanksgiving the searches for Turkey recipes goes through the roof. Searches for gift ideas, depression, the homeless, holiday travel and Charity go through the roof as well. Plan now to be at the top of the Search Engine rankings and take advantage of these and many other search phrases. All it takes is a few well written articles and plenty of backlinks!

And most important – Don’t forget your favorite blogger who got you started early this year

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