subject: Making Money With Articles: Where To Find Affiliates For Your Niche Website [print this page] When making money by writing articles and placing them on your websites it is important to note that you will also need a variety of solid affiliate links that will help you generate revenue. It is vitally important that you know where to find these affiliates and that you choose the very best affiliates for you and your niche site.
When choosing an affiliate, it is important that you determine which companies you will profit best from based on the frequency that the product is likely to sell. There are several types of affiliates and some will offer you more money from a sale than others. Before you get too sucked in by dollar signs remember some products are bound to sell more than others. If you sell a particular product four times a year from a little known company that gives you $120 per sale or sell a well known product 3 times a week at the rate of $15 per sale, then you will make much more money with the $15 per sale product. Quite often the large well known companies will offer a very small profit per sale because they are established and know that their product is likely to sell well. Small, unknown companies, on the other hand, need all of the promotion they can get so they will attempt to 'buy' your business by offering a large sum per sale. Because they are unknown, their products are likely to sell less frequently causing you frustration.
The most important rule when picking affiliates to promote on your site is to pick products that would be of interest to those who would likely visit your niche site. Otherwise you will be promoting a product to a group of people who are disinterested in your product entirely. For example if your niche site targets parents of young children then it would be wise to promote baby products. If you niche site targets gardeners then it goes without saying that promoting gardening products would be the way to go. In turn if you promote baby products to gardeners you are almost guaranteed to lose out no matter how much money the affiliate company offers for a sale.
In conclusion there are two main ways to find an affiliate company for your niche website. You can sign up with a company that manages the accounts of hundreds of companies (big and small) and apply for the products within these accounts or you can do a web search for companies that would match well with your niche. I recommend that you visit their websites and see if they advertise an affiliate program that would suit your needs.
