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The ultimate consumer guide to the 100 best associate and affiliate programs on the Internet and how to profit from them. Here’s the dollars-and-sense lowdown on associate/affiliate programs, the newest way for anyone with a web site to make money. These programs let individuals make money from the heavy-hitters, who pay a commission to associated sites for click-throughs, leads, and sales transactions. These programs aren’t always as easy or lucrative as they seem.

This book shows how to latch onto the associate and affiliated programs that offer the most benefits. Now Dan Gray gives you the answers to the questions people care about most: is signing up worth it (are the terms too draconian): which sites are legitimate and which aren’t? how can you accurately estimate whether you’ll make $20 a month, or $200, or $2000? how do you encourage people on your site to click through to another? The book also ranks the 100 top programs by key criteria–including ease of use, payout, and pass-through rates–creating an invaluable resource for everyone with a Website of their own.

The Complete Guide to Associate & Affiliate Programs on the Net: Turning Clicks Into Cash

User Reviews

Most of the advice from this book is still relevant, generate a high volume site that is 'sticky' for users and pick appropriate affiliate schemes. It does provide useful advice e.g. to utilize your existing web sites and links to help build volume.

In isolation, this book is insufficient. Unless you already have a good traffic volumes, you will have to gain an understanding of search engine positioning and viral marketing to get your site traffic up. Only good content will get people to stay. If you are writing content just to generate affiliate sells (some people do), you should be looking at how you can generate more income from the content than affiliate sells only (e.g. do you have a related product or service you can sell?).

Since 1999, affiliate programs have come, gone and changed. In this respect the book is out of date. Good introduction but showing its age - affiliate sells should be part of an overall strategy unless your doing it for pocket money. -- Needs updating

I have read this book into the morning light...Such content is very useful to anyone planning or in the associate/affiliate biz!
A very helpful product that should be among everyone's 'in business'library. It offers real world examples of how to make a dollar honestly. If you are looking for a gem for any webmaster or soon to be...I recommend this book. Enter in no flair or hype if that is what you are looking for,,,an excellent value bar none! -- Overrated Content....

This book is quite clearly laid out and easy to understand. It covers quite a range of topics. It is very good for those that don't know what affiliate marketing is. It will also give you some helpfull hints to get you onto the right track. I think the most usefull part is the chapter where it discusses the top 100 affiliate programs. That should give you an idea of what works and what doesn't. Unfortunately there are some areas where I felt the author could have given more in depth knowledge. I also don't agree with his statement that you are wasting your money on advertising. There are some people in the industry (not myself though) that are successfull with advertising. According to him, you should only persue search engines and directories. Good for beginners, but keep looking if you have been in affiliate marketing for a while. Despite some negative comments, I think the book represents value for money. -- Good for newcomers to affiliate marketing

Offers nonsensical advice such as "work hard to get a good ranking is the search engines"... and also keeps promoting the same few affiliate programs which leads me to believe the author has dealings with those companies.

You can get a lot of the advice for free from various websites.

Only for total novices who don't know anything about the net. -- Very basic advice

This is a good book that initiates what many marketers should do. It outlines the process of creating an affiliate program, but lacks some of the depth into how to go about doing it, and what should be beneath the surface of a successful program.

I would suggest Make Your Website Work For You, and also Killer Content to fill in the gaps. -- nice start, needs to go to the next level