Affiliate Network Overview

We discussed what an affiliate program was in the affiliate program overview now I want to help you understand what an affiliate network is. An affiliate network is a company that brings together people that are looking for affiliate marketing opportunities and companies that have products to sell that need affiliates.

The affiliate network handles all of the money, provides linking, and has all of the important information of the companies it represents. This makes life easy for companies like K-Mart because they have the Affiliate Network Company hired to handle their affiliate program for them and do not have to worry about maintaining it in house.

For someone that has a website and is looking for products to sell an affiliate network is handy because that can go to one location on the web and find all of the products they need. Additionally, as an affiliate that means that you only have to deal with one company so if you sell 5 items on your site from 5 different suppliers you do not have do deal with each of them separately. When it comes time to get paid the affiliate network pays you so you don't have to try to keep up with 5 different checks and stats.

The affiliate network keeps up with all of your sales stats in one place which makes life easier as well. As you can see an affiliate network works to bring people together that can help each other and for that service that get paid and they should. I will tell you a quality affiliate network can save you a lot of time and effort.

I have listed some affiliate network that I feel are trusted and respected. Go take a look around on these sites. If you have a site or are thinking about building one and need products or services to market then affiliate networks are the place to start.

Below are some notable affiliate networks.

Advertising.com - http://advertising.com Notable customers include: Associated Press and the Yellow Pages.

Affiliate Fuel - http://affiliatefuel.com Notable customers include: Blockbuster Online and LowCostLending.com

BeFree/Reporting.net - http://affiliates.befree.com/affiliates/index.jsp Notable customers include: Barnes and Noble and Old Navy.

Clickxchange - http://clickxchange.com Notable customers include: eFax.com and GoTomyPC.com

Commission Junction - http://cj.com Notable customers include: eBay, Overture, and Frederick's of Hollywood.

Linkshare - http://linkshare.com Notable customers include: Coldwater Creek, Delta Airlines, and Hickory Farms.