Affliate Program Reviews

This was the first Affiliate Program I ever joined. I joined because I was the Adminstrator of a website and forum called WhippetTalk and needed to offset the cost of the website and software/licensing of the forums. I thought I would be great to offer my members links to stores where they already shop for pet supplies and at the same time, help the board with commissions from those purchases. I signed up and joined programs such as Drs. Foster and Smith, PetSmart, Live Aquaria, 1-800-PetMeds and more.

I like the interface with LinkShare and how easy it is to make product specific link as well as the general banners and such. I use the links on my personal websites, blogs, forums and here at Squidoo. The quality of the Merchants are great in that they are highly recognized by the general public. I recommend this Affiliate Program highly. It's one of my favorites.

The next Affiliate Program I joined was Shareasale.com. It looked promising and has a few Merchants that interested me that I couldn't find on LinkShare. I joined to add more shopping opportunites for my membership at WhippetTalk with merchants such as: Entirely Pets, PetNetDirect and Jake's Dog House.

I'm not as happy with Share A Sale as I am with LinkShare. But I do make a few sales here and there with them. A few merchants I signed up with have left the program and I end up having to remove links.

The interface is not as easy for specific products links. I find I spend a lot of time trying to figure out how to get the kinds of links I want. Many merchants just off banner and text links. Linking to a specific product is a little tricker and you have to change the banner code and image in the HTML to make it work.

Webmasters Make $$$

When I joined Squidoo, I shortly signed up with AllPosters.com. Why? So that I can use some really great pictures on my lenses. AllPosters.com lets you use high quality color images in your websites, blogs and lenses with a link to them. And as an affiliate, you get paid when someone buys a product from them. It's a win, win situation. If you never sell a single item, you at least got to use some really great images on your site. And you can sell concert t-shirts, posters and more with them.

Here are a few examples of the quality of images you can use:

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The AllPosters.com Affiliates Program is a great way to make money with your website. Link to AllPosters.com and earn 25%-30% of every purchase made by your site visitors at their website. If the visitor decides to purchase within 10 days of their last visit from your website, you'll still earn commission on the sale! You can link to AllPosters.com from a selection of over hundreds of thousands poster and art print images as well as poster stores and mini stores. They have posters related to just about everything (e.g. movies, music, sports, art, animals) so no matter what the content of your site is, you will find images that are a good fit. It's easy to sign-up, track your sales, and build links because the site generates all the HTML code for you.
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Pepperjam hit Squidoo circles with a lot of hype. I jumped on the bandwagon hoping to see something that would help me with affiliate sales. Something better than the rest. I read stories and blogs by prominent Squidoo lensmasters who said this network has generated a lot of revenue for them. And Pepperjam advertises that it's "revolutionary."

Yes, they have some big and well known merchants such as Jelly Belly, Cartoon Network, eBay and more. I am still learning my way around this program. I am not really pleased so far. All I have been able to do is use banner links to the merchants and not link to specific products. I don't find banners as effective. What's different about Pepperjam? So far, I'm not really sure. Perhaps someone who uses them and find them to be lucrative can drop me a line and clue me in. But as I have said before with other Affliate Programs, why not? I have nothing to lose.

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