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How to Locate the Best Affiliate Marketing Program
By Robert Schimmel

You are launching your part time money making machine as an affiliate marketer and you want to find the best affiliate marketing program. Do you know what to look for in the best affiliate marketing program?

First of all, you should know that even with the best affiliate marketing program, you need to be prepared to put in a lot of hard work. Do not give up your full time job that pays the bills just yet. As you learn the steps that are required to find success and a steady income, you will need the added support of a regular pay check.

When you are trying to locate the best affiliate marketing program, keep in mind the options they should offer:

Good commissions. This is the backbone of your business, getting the reward for your work. The higher the commissions per sale, the better. If you have to sell 30 products to make a hundred dollars, then it is quite simply put, not worth your valuable time. Find a few great affiliate programs that offer a really decent commission payout and structure and promote those. Forget about promoting things that do not pay much money, it is just not worth it.
Tools and Resources. Lets just say that you have no web page building experience, know nothing about HTML and do not know what a linking code is. The best affiliate marketing program sites offer you the tools that you need to get your business up and running in the shortest possible time. If you have to sit down and figure out how to code a website, that could take you a very long time. If, instead, you can use already existing templates, then great! All that is really left for you to do is to purchase a suitable domain name and find some hosting. Some of these programs will offer hosting and feeder pages, so that you do not have to purchase a domain name. It is not really recommended that you use feeder pages; however, they don't tend to be favored or even noticed by search engines.
Support. What if you have questions, problems, can't find something or need an answer right away? Is there support available? The last thing you need is to get ready to launch your site and then encounter a problem. If you can't get an answer to your question for 24 - 48 hours, then you are likely losing out on commissions.
Affiliate tracking. How accurate is the tracking process for your affiliate linking codes? Promotion of sites takes a lot of effort and you do not want to be exerting all of that effort only for someone else to steal your commissions. It is a fact that this happens quite a lot, often to newbies, but some of the best affiliate marketing program sites have considered and solved this important issue.
Payment. Can you get your payments via Paypal? What are the other payment methods and can you expect to receive a payment on a regular basis? If you have to wait for a check to come in the mail, that can be very frustrating. You earned the commission and you want your check now. Some sites offer credit cards where they simply add your balance to the card so you can spend it, almost as soon as you earn it.

Health affiliate networks are often overlooked by affiliate marketers, even though they have all of the above criteria and more to offer to their affiliates. The health related affiliate niche offers some of the most saleable products available. Add to that the fact that there are millions of people looking for solutions to their health problems and it becomes a winning choice for the best affiliate marketing program.

About the Author:
Now for a little about me. My name is Robert Schimmel and I've been earning a living in the Information Technology industry since 1990. Starting in 2008 I began researching, later earning an income, and then writing about the affiliate marketing industry. Early on I experienced what I believe all successful affiliate marketers share which is a "breakthrough" or "ah-ha!" moment. I was obsessed with traffic spending hours on SEO and money on PPC. That's when the "ah-ha!" hit me. It wasn't more traffic I needed just make better use of my existing traffic with products that sold well to a very specific, hungry, and targeted crowd that paid a high commission on each sale. I don't recall the review website I originally found that sparked that moment so I worked with a colleague and web designer to create http://www.tophealthaffiliateprograms.com for my readers. Take a look and see if maybe these health affiliate programs could be the "ah-ha!" moment for you.