If you're starting, start with small reputable networks. As big networks require years of experience for you to get approved. Try Aduncle, It is The Next Big affiliate marketing Company.
My favorite and most profitable affiliate program was one for Launch.com since my site is related to music my visitors loved to click it and instead of using just banners I designed a 600x100 pixel flash ad that resided on the bottom of every page except my homepage. This banner received CTRs of up to 5% depending on the day and with my volume of visitors I started making more off this affiliate program than my regular banner ads. Launch.com then reduced their pay from 2 cents per click to 1 cent per click and I got a little worried but continued to run it and my traffic increased so I continued to make about the same amount of money per day. This continued for 3 months and I had generated in excess of $617US(which is awesome because thats like $1000 CDN for me) but Launch ended their affiliate program and has not paid me or sent me any notice of whether I will be paid or replied to any of my emails to them regarding this money, so I kinda got screwed. The main reason I would say for my success with this affiliate program is due to two things, the first is that my visitors loved music and since Launch is does almost everything for music my site doesn't do it worked really well, and second the ad was very appealing but it didn't pop up or get in the way so i never received any complaints about it. Well theres my blabbing about affiliate programs I look forward to some more replies as I am currently looking for a new affiliate program and am currently pondering credit cards or search traffic, anyway great questions Wayne.
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You can search google as ''google adsence alternatives'' .. But it is good to stick with google adsence
000webhost.com is a good one. You get payed $5.00 for any one that signsup for a free web hosting account. I think it is the best free hosting company there is. You Get: *** 1500 MB of disk space *** 100 GB of data transfer *** PHP and MySQL support with no restrictions *** cPanel control panel *** Website Builder *** Absolutely no advertising!
nothing can beat adsense, actually, but somteimes you can get better revenue with some specific networks like Epom Market. they have sweet rates for filesharing sites, esp if you have a lot of asian/indian/brazilian traffic. my daily revenue varies from 90 to 150$
one of the best CPA/CPM networks is Epom market, as well as PeerFly and MaxBounty. All these networks are pro and have great rates and normal ads. CJ is great affiliate network, been working with them for a few months, now I'm using Epom only.
000webhost's affiliate program may be great for you and for many other people, but they cut me off from theirs without any warnings or notifications. I emailed them about the problem and didn't get a response.