What Is Affiliate Marketing?

Affiliate marketing is the process of earning a commission by promoting other people’s or company’s products. You find a product you like, promote it to others and earn a piece of the profit for each sale that you make.

 It is a simple method where you sell others product or services and earn a some commission for it. This is as simple as this and the whole process as to how you get into it is also simple.

• Big companies such as HP, Apple and Microsoft simply go to certain affiliate marketing providers and provide them with their ads about their products and then pay them for it.
• You go to the people (who are the middle men) and get the products which may be available in the form of Banner advertising or text links and so on.
• Then you place them on some relevant posts or places on your website or blog.
• You’re done.

Now when the people would read your post or visit your website then its quite obvious that they see your ads and click on it. And if they buy it then you earn a commission on it. This is the process and the term called affiliate marketing (the term that may be sounding confusing to you)

In short words you affiliate yourself with a certain product and work for it to get it sold. You can also use other ways such as Facebook or Twitter to promote it but I don’t recommend it. You can use them to promote your website with the product and get it sold.

So below are list of Top 20 Affiliate Networks

RANKING	NETWORKS	COMMENTS
1	Rakuten Affiliate Network	Now our 6-time winner, Rakuten Affiliate Network, part of Rakuten Marketing, receives enthusiastic support from both advertisers and publishers.
2	ShareASale/Affiliate Window	As we went to press news came that Affiliate Window (part of zanox Group) has acquired ShareASale. Industry consolidation is accelerating.
3	eBay Partner Network	eBay Partner Network is incredibly well-respected by people who know the performance marketing industry. A great network.
4	Avangate	Avangate has been growing fast over the last few years and is our most popular “digital downloads” network by some margin.
5	Amazon Associates	Amazon Associates remains the industry entry-point for many publishers. Their broad product offerings and ease of use make it simple.
6	CJ Affiliate by Conversant	CJ is still a top network but survey feedback indicates that they’re just a little off the pace compared to the other giants.
7	ClickBank	Enormous and extremely popular, ClickBank is still the entry point to the industry for a large number of merchants.
8	LinkConnector	LinkConnector has a terrific range of trusted brands. In combination with their focus on proprietary technology this is consistently pushing them higher in our list.
9	RevenueWire	A well appreciated Canadian network focused on digital commerce. An excellent reputation with advertisers.
10	FlexOffers	Into the Top 10 comes FlexOffers, with good support for publishers and quality traffic for advertisers.
11	Impact Radius	Run by legends of the industry, with top-class technology and great results. An intelligent, experienced network.
12	AvantLink	A stable and professionally operated network with a great business model.
13	TradeDoubler	A very strong European network founded way back in 1999. Tradedoubler has global reach and a terrific publisher network.
14	Performance Horizon	A high-tech SaaS platform designed to scale globally and providing real-time data for big brands. Brilliantly effective technology.
15	Webgains/ad pepper media	Based in the UK, with an active US office, Webgains delivers world-class customer service and cutting edge technology.
16	PepperJam	Formerly eBay Enterprise Marketing Solutions and now resurrecting a brand synonymous with affiliate marketing, Pepperjam is newly independent and eager to expand.
17	oneNetworkDirect	oND is still popular but increasingly finds itself over-shadowed by newer digital download networks.
18	Affiliate Future	Based in London, founded in 1999 and owned by Global Data, Affiliate Future is a solid network well-respected by our survey respondents.
19	TradeTracker	Another London-based network, and with 16 offices worldwide TradeTracker offers a lot of reach and a good platform.
20	Share Results	Share Results is a decade-old network, confident enough to invest in developing their own technology and with a loyal set of retail-oriented clients