Is It A Stupid Step To Join Associate Programs Network?

By Author: Bedrich Omacka
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If you are going to publish a lot of affiliate offers on your website it may be quite time consuming to find enough suitable affiliate programs and sign up for each one. There is a solution called affiliate network for publishers like you. In this article I will describe what are the affiliate networks, how do they work and what are the advantages and disadvantages of joining these networks.

The affiliate network is something like online marketplace where merchants offer commissions for every sale which comes from the publisher's website. If you are going to work with affiliate network you need to sign up only once. After the sign up, you can browse all the merchants offers and choose some related to your niche.

While some networks allow you to promote all the merchants immediately other will require to apply for every affiliate program you are going to join. But the approvals are very often made automatically so you don't need to wait too long to be accepted. Sometimes it may happen that your website will be automatically disapproved. This is usually caused by the merchants regional targeting settings. In some ...
... countries, there are too many problematic affiliates and merchants are trying to avoid problems this way. However, many people refer that they got accepted later when contacted the merchant directly. If your website has good potential to drive sales to the merchant's website you should try it.

When you are accepted you will get the option to choose some of the affiliate links provided by the merchant. So apply for some related offers and place links on your web. Every affiliate program has different piece of HTML code which you need to copy and paste to your website. Place this HTML code to the place in your page source code where you want to show the affiliate advertisements.

From this moment, you will get commissions from all merchants to your online account in the affiliate network. And the network will send you all the money (usually by cheque or to your paypal account) earned in different affiliate programs together. So the advantages of this solution are one payment for all your affiliate work and very easy way how to join multiple affiliate offers in a short time.

The disadvantage of affiliate networks may be the lower commission rate. Since they need to pay to the network quite big commissions for every sale and sometimes other fees the commissions are generally lower comparing with their in-house affiliate programs. Even if they state on their website low commissions for the in-house program, affiliate managers usually contact affiliates directly with special offers if they switch to the in-house program.

So the advice is easy: if you are going to earn a little money from a lot of affiliate programs, then join the affiliate network. If you believe you will earn decent amount from some affiliate offer than invest a few minutes and sign up for their in-house program. This way you will earn more.

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