I’m going to start off by telling all you people who are new to affiliate marketing about a 30 Day Challenge you really need to be taking part of. Especially if you’re new to affiliate marketing or have had trouble making money from affiliate marketing.

I’ve told you in the past about the 30 Day Challenge. This year, it starts August 1st and the “pre season” has already started.

If you’re beginning in affiliate marketing, it’s worth your time to go over and sign up. Even if you’ve been around a while, watch the video’s. I’m sure you’ll pick up some good money making ideas.

Dan Raines and Ed Dales have been showing people how to make money with affiliate marketing for many years now.

It was only a few years ago that Dan ran the 15 day challenge, where he tried to make 15 thousand dollars in 15 days. And he almost succeeded! I learned a lot of useful tricks from that challenge.

The 30 Day Challenge site already has some very good videos up. You’ll get instant access to these video’s as soon as you sign up. For you that are just starting, I’d suggest starting at the beginning. For those of you who need a few tips, just browse through the lessons until you find the subject you need to brush up on.

The goal, as usual, is to take you from nothing and show you the basics of affiliate marketing. They’ll be taking you by the hands and teaching you every step. The lessons available will take you from nothing to showing you how to make your first $10 within 30 days.

I know, $10 dollars doesn’t sound like much. But you have to start somewhere. This is the problem with many new affiliate marketers. They want to start one day and think they should be earning $1000 per day by the end of the week!

The truth is, if you don’t have the skills to legitimately make $10 with affiliate programs, you’ll never make your first $1000. And that is what the 30 Day Challenge is all about, giving you the skills to make your first $10 which then gives you the confidence and skills to make much more.

I can’t tell you how many emails I get from people who want to know the “secret” of making money with affiliate marketing. If you suggest they try to make $10 in 30 days, they come back with something like “Oh, I can do that, but what I need to know how to make enough to live on.”

When asked further questions, I find out that they haven’t even taken the first step in building a website or choosing an affiliate program. These are the people who will more than likely never make it in affiliate marketing.

In my opinion, the best thing about the 30 Day Challenge is the members forums. Here you have many like minded people, many who are already successful in affiliate marketing, helping beginners and throwing out ideas. You’ll be exposed so many different ways to make money with affiliate programs it will make your head spin.

Go ahead and sign up for the 30 Day Challenge by going to http://www.thirtydaychallenge.com. Give it an honest try and I’ll think it will answer many of your questions and open your eyes to some of the “secrets” to affiliate marketing.

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!

Note: Click on the link if you’re looking for reviews about blog web hosting providers.

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

Like it or not, there are few steps we can take to protect our content from scrapers.

I’ve spent a good amount of time fighting for my content when I find it on other sites. Many of these sites use RSS feeds to steal content. Yeah, there are a few things you can do, but is it really worth all the time and trouble it will cost you?

Here’s what you need to know.

If you post to your blog often, Mr. Googlebot will visit often. Googlebot visits my site at least once every other day. There are times it comes around every day. It loves fresh content!

Having said that, I do have a few blogs that I let slide without making post to them over a several week span. Googlebot slowed visits to these blogs, to a point where it was only visiting every other week or so.

What does this have to do with Scraped content?

You’ve probably heard about Google and the duplicate content penalty…right? Many people will tell you not to worry about stolen content because you published your article first.

Well, that may or MAY NOT be true. If you publish a blog post and it is indexed in Google first, then you generally have nothing to worry about.

However, if you do publish it first and Googlebot doesn’t visit you often and in the meantime your content is scraped and Googlebot visits the scraper site before it visits your site, guess who has the duplicate content then?

How I’m Dealing With Scraped Content

Honestly, I’m not worrying about it much.

What I am doing though is letting the scrapers help me.

What I’ve done with sites that are being scraped but not being visited often by Googlebot is that I’m putting a lot of links in the blog post.

Normally when your content is scraped, it’s being done automatically. The program sucks up all you content on the page including links and sometimes even photo’s. Now when your content is spit out on the scraper sites, there are links in the content pointing back to your site (if you put them in). There are a few scraper programs that strip out links, but from what I’m seeing, most don’t.

And…if you put your affiliate program links in your content, you now have some affiliate links on those sites as well.

But Aren’t All Scraper Sites Low Quality Sites That Don’t Make It Into Google’s Index?

Ahhh…I see you’ve been listening to Google lately. This is what Google would love for you to believe. But it’s not true.

If you Google often, how long has it been since you’ve come across a scraper site that was listed high in the rankings? I found several this morning while searching for some Sports news!

Okay, okay. So all these sites aren’t going to be PR 6 and PR 7′s listed at the top of the SERPS. That’s okay. However you will get a little link love from many of these scraper sites, especially if they’ve been around a while.

I’ve proven this technique with two sites that I knew were getting scraped.

Sure, I’d love it if we didn’t have to deal with these kinds of issues, but we do. So we might as well try and make the best of it when it happens. I don’t know about you, but I’m too busy to spend hours on end hunting down my scraped content and threatning the site owner.

As the old saying goes, shut down 1 scraper site and 10 more takes it place!