Feb 18 2010

Affiliate Program Comparison Made Easy

Affiliate marketing is huge; there are thousands of various products, different types of offers and terms, etc.

It is almost impossible for a newbie to decide how to compare the affiliate programs to decide which program to give a try first.

Luckily there’s some good material to help online.

This Affiliate Marketing Review Report Card is a simple to use infographic going over the various programs out there and all the specific information you need to pick the best program for you.

With it you will be able to:

Get an idea of what each affiliate term stands for;
Learn to use various metrics to compare affiliate program;
See the list of highest paying programs (the table can be sorted by any of the metric, just put a tick in the corresponding column):

Written By:

Ann Smarty | @seosmarty

Ann Smarty is the Director of Media at BlueGlass where she serves as the Editor of Search Engine Journal. Ann's expertise in blogging and tools serve as a base for her writing, tutorials and her guest blogging project, MyGuestBlog.

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Geno Prussakov

Good post, Ann. I also wrote about this subject in my 5 C-Factors post at http://www.amnavigator.com/blog/2009/06/09/5-reasons-to-choose-one-affiliate-program-over-the-other/

Two problems that affiliates do face, however, are: (i) not all affiliate program/networks display such data as program's conversion ratio, and (ii) very few disclose such metric as the affiliate program's reversal rate. Both of these have be carefully weighed when choosing a program/product/offer to promote; and then also: take it one step at a time -- don't pour all of your resources into one program, but take it easy, constantly measuring, making conclusions, tweaking, and improving.