Top Affiliate Programs To Make Money From Your Blog

Every newbie blogger, I take an exception to passionate ones, approaches the blogosphere with an aim! To reach the aim, they find only one method – Google AdSense! However, they find many of other ways to earn from their blogs. For instance, you can check some AdSense alternatives if you are having some issues with AdSense approval even so you have a good traffic. Among such ways, Affiliate Marketing is the easy yet tough one. Though affiliate marketing is considered a tough job, you will find it easy and profitable if you know art of persuading others in an effective way. If you think you have that skill, we have a list some top affiliate programs that will help you make money from your blog.

Top Affiliate Programs

Web Hosting & Domain Name Affiliate Programs

HostGator

You can go with this affiliate marketing programme regardless niche of your blog! Your journey with this programme will be more authentic if HostGator is your choice for web hosting. There are different options to engage in this, such as creating customized coupons that will give you earning and discount for your readers, letting your readers know a number of promotional deals through your reference link etc.

Minimum Payout: $100

iPage

iPage is yet another prominent figure when it comes to web hosting services. As a matter of surprise, iPage lets you earn up to $150 per sign up along with its special promotion methods. When compared to other hosting companies, the commission rates of iPage are definitely high, and hence it is very profitable.

Minimum Payout: $50

GoDaddy

Just like the case of HostGator affiliate, any blog is suitable for promoting GoDaddy, one of best domain registrars in web world. When it comes to GoDaddy, you can get up to 100% commission for customers you promote. You will be able to join this programme by means of Commission Junction, ShareASale or Affiliate Window.

Minimum Payout: $25 (PayPal), $5 (Good As Gold), $10 (Direct Deposit), and $100 (Check Payments)

WP Engine

WP Engine affiliate is a high-paying choice when it comes to selection of affiliate programmes. The premium hosting service will give $150 for each customer you refer. If you have a blog with heavy traffic, especially in topics regarding web hosting and design, WP Engine will be nothing but awesome source of income for you.

Minimum Payout: $50

eCommerce Affiliate Programmes

Flipkart

If your blog has a large number of visitors from India, you SHOULD go with the affiliate programme of one of popular online shopping websites in India – Flipkart. Apart from decent commissions on different product categories, Flipkart usually comes with some interesting promotions, which are useful for both customers and affiliates due to less price range and enhanced commissions respectively.

Minimum Payout: Rs 250.00 (Gift Vouchers) and Rs 1000.00 (EFT)

Amazon Associates

You know about Amazon, one of the best choices when it comes to online choices. By joining Amazon Associates, it’s possible to lead your readers into Amazon and earn for purchases they make. Amazon has a vast variety of products in their stores, and offers decent advertising fees for each section. An advantage of Amazon is that you can focus on country-based site of Amazon (like Amazon.in) after analyzing source location of your majority traffic.

Minimum Payout: $100 and $10 (Direct deposits and Amazon.com gift certificates)

iTunes Affiliate Programme

What do you think about helping Apple Inc to grab more customers? Well, though it sounds funny, you can be a part of that action by joining iTunes Affiliate Programme. Using this programme, you can prefer songs, books, movies, TV shows, Applications etc to your readers.

Minimum Payout: (Varies)

Miscellaneous Affiliate Programmes

Freelancer

Most of internet users love to earn money from web, so do majority of your readers! Using this affiliate programme, you can let your readers explore world of freelance jobs. Freelancer.com offers decent commissions; for instance, it will give you 90% of project commission for each finished project.

Minimum Payout: (Varies)

Aweber.com

Just as the service, its affiliate programme is also impressive, as it offers a commission of 30% for each of your referrals. Aweber affiliate is best if you have a blog based on blogging or marketing so that chances of hits on affiliate link are very high.

Minimum Payout: $30 for U.S. based affiliates and $50 for all others.

Affiliate Networks

If you have a huge blog with huge traffic, promoting single brand or single store won’t be enough. In such situations, you can go with affiliate networks like following ones.

ClickSure

Unlike aforesaid ones, ClickSure is an affiliate network, through which you can promote thousands of products from different categories. You can create an account, choose the product you like to promote through your blog, and earn as your readers accept your suggestion and make purchase; simple as that.

Minimum Payout: $250

ShareASale

Using ShareASale, you can promote products from a big number of merchants around the world. It offers more than 3900 affiliate programmes. In addition, ShareASale offers good range of commissions as well.

Minimum Payout: (Varies)

ClickBank

ClickBank is all about creating a nexus between product creators and affiliate marketers so that both will get profit in the long run. It is a pay-per-sale affiliate network and offers good payouts, rich features to analytics, etc. It’s a worth trying affiliate network.

Minimum Payout: $10 – 50$

Peerfly

Peerfly is another good choice when we have to select affiliate networks. This network, which has Disney and Dell in its ‘advertisers’ list, offers impressive commissions.

Minimum Payout: $50

Themes & Web Affiliate Programmes

CodeCanyon

Using this programme, you can promote a variety of products such as PHP Scripts, WordPress plug-ins, plug-ins for a number of other CMSs, JS Scripts, Smartphone App templates etc. If you have a web-development-based blog, it will be much profitable.

Minimum Payout: $50

Themeforest

You can lead your readers into the world of themes using Themeforest Affiliate programme. You can promote HTML themes, WordPress themes, eCommerce themes etc. You can receive 30% commission on each purchase.

Minimum Payout: $50

So, we have listed out some of the effective top affiliate programs you can depend upon to earn more from your blog; plus, we have included a few affiliate networks. By the way, which is your favourite affiliate programme? We are waiting for your response.