I'm looking to join an affiliate program but not sure which one(s) to join. I need something that is good for general forums. Anyone have any suggestions?
I would go with Filesonic, really regret it that I started with them too late but catching up. It is now something like what Rapidshare was back few years ago.
I would suggest you try Forex affiliate program has emerged to be the most beneficial way for people to earn money online. The ease and efficiency to trade online brings about significant benefits to the traders and affiliates in terms of CPA and Revenue Share deals.
i've joined two lately & i've earned good money so far. one of them is dnp the guys from the duty free affiliates program and the other one is videozer, downloads and so on directnetpartners is giving me around 1.5k per week and videozer $400-$500 my 2 cents!
You can try the ikes of CJ or Amazon's affiliate program, they accept international members and have been around for some time
Not sure if you have heard about MoreNiche and Sell Health. they are worth checking out. Been with them for many years. But as always check around before joining anything.
It looks like there are too many different affiliate programs to even determine which one is best. I would also like to know what standards are being used to measure which affiliate is good or bad?
A lot depends on your traffic sources. With off-topic forums I would do some testing with different networks. Clickbank has products that appeal to a wide range of people, so I would look there first.
It's hard to find any good or best affiliate programs these days. But you can try Adfly, as example. Adfly is not SCAM! You can see Adfly payment proofs at this link: http://forum.adf.ly/viewforum.php?f=5 But if you are willing to be my referral, then I'm glad to teach you on how to do "the right way" See my video here for detail: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Z7YslfrHN4
You can join Hosting affiliate (hostmonster, i x webhosting, host getor)program which will be best for you.
Have you tried file-sharing affiliate programs? I know FileTram has profitable one. ($100 for 1000 downloads, it's kinda $10 for just 100 downloads!). I also liked Wupload's affiliate program. It was also very profitable, but they closed it, so now I recommend just FileTram)