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Online Affiliate Programs

Anyone who owns and operates a website can dramatically increase profitability, or provide a nice side income by promoting affiliate products for a commission. You just have to know where to look to find the good affiliate programs that aren't a waste of your time.

Hundreds, if not thousands of online marketers are searching for ways to catapult their site's earning potential into higher brackets. It's easy to get confused by all of the hype and the multitude of affiliate programs being offered since it seems there are new programs cropping up all over the internet.

Well, I hate to break it to you, but the majority of these affiliate opportunities will never make you a dime. Your promotion and diverting of your heard earned web traffic to these affiliates will probably end in a "no sale" ninety nine percent of the time.

Why is This?

Most affiliate programs out there are asking you to promote products that quite simply are not set up to effectively convert sales. In other words, you are sending your traffic away to sites that don't contain a high enough caliber of advertising copy and conusmer incentive to order, so the prospects move on to other areas of the internet.

What this results in


for webmasters setting out into the world of affiliate marketing is disappointment and disillusionment with affiliate product promotion. Why would they want to continue to waste their precious cyberspace promoting something that does not make them any additional income?

What you should know, is that there are some effective affiliate programs out there that have generous payouts, and actually work very hard to convert that customer that you sent to them so generously. These exceptional programs have higher conversion rates and payouts that are well worth your time.

This way, you are monetizing your website's potential by sending traffic that probably would have left your site anyways to another site, AND you're still making money if they buy a product or service. The concept of affiliate marketing is a win/win situation, especially when it is utilized properly and when the affiliate programs chosen are reputable and effective.

About the author:

Visit Herbal Medicine Affiliate Programs for information on the herbal affiliate programs talked about in this article. Danna Schneider is the founder of Herbal-Therapeutics.com