Affiliate programs

Wikipedia definition:

"Affiliate marketing is a marketing practice in which a business rewards one or more affiliates for each visitor or customer brought about by the affiliate's own marketing efforts. The industry has four core players: the merchant (also known as 'retailer' or 'brand'), the network (that contains offers for the affiliate to choose from and also takes care of the payments), the publisher (also known as 'the affiliate'), and the customer. The market has grown in complexity to warrant a secondary tier of players, including affiliate management agencies, super-affiliates and specialized third party vendors.

Affiliate marketing overlaps with other Internet marketing methods to some degree, because affiliates often use regular advertising methods. Those methods include organic search engine optimization (SEO), paid search engine marketing (PPC - Pay Per Click), e-mail marketing, and in some sense display advertising. On the other hand, affiliates sometimes use less orthodox techniques, such as publishing fake reviews of products or services offered by a partner."


A short list of the best affiliate programs is:
1. Amazon
2. Clickbank
3.Comission Junction
4. Zanox
5.Shareasale
6. Moreniche
7. Linkshare
8. Paydotcom
9. Impactfive

Related books:

The Complete Guide to Affiliate Marketing on the Web: How to Use and Profit from Affiliate Marketing Programs Bruce C. Brown

A Practical Guide to Affiliate Marketing: Quick Reference for Affiliate Managers & Merchants Evgenii Prussakov

Affiliate Marketing: The Complete Guide For Beginners (Affiliate Marketing - Mastering Internet Marketing) Todd Farmer

Affiliate Marketing For Total Beginners: as The Income Pimp recommends ! Tomislav Miklec