Make Money Online with Affiliate Marketing - Learn About 3 Types of Affiliate Programs

As you know there are many ways to make money online. I mentioned 3 of these ways in my article Discover 3 Ways to Make Money Online. One of the ways that I mentioned was becoming an affiliate. There are several advantages of becoming an affiliate which include not needing to create your own product, provide customer support, or have your own website.

Now I would like to talk about 3 different types of Affiliate programs. When you get started as an affiliate it is a good idea to look at these 3 different types of programs to decide which ones will work best for you in your quest to make money online. The best way to find the one that is right for you is to test out all three different types.

1. Affiliate Programs for Informational and Digital Products.

The most common affiliate program for informational and digital products is the affiliate network called Clickbank. Clickbank is the most widely used affiliate network that offers a marketplace for internet marketers to find digital informational products to promote.

One great thing about digital informational products is that they are downloaded instantly when the customer purchases them and this offers customers instant gratification. This can even be used as a selling point if your are promoting affiliate products.

2. Affiliate Programs for physical products.

One of the most commonly used affiliate program for physical products is the Amazon Associate Program. These types of programs work when you send customers to the products website and they make a purchase. You then get a commission from the sale that was made from your link.

If this is the type of affiliate program your interested then you should take a look at the Amazon Associates Program. It is very easy to incorporate Amazon products you are interested in promoting by adding the widget to your blog and writing blog posts with product reviews. If you want to get started with this quickly then you can create a blog on blogger.com and it is very easy to add the Amazon Associate widgets to help you promote any of the products that you are interested in.

3. Affiliate Programs that offer a residual income.

The most common programs for residual income would be the ones for web hosting. Most of the time if you become an affiliate for a web hosting company and you send them a customer you get a commission for as long as they remain with the hosting company. Some of the affiliate programs may have different commission policies. It is a good idea to read the specific program policies about commissions to find out about how commission work for the specific affiliate programs you join.

Finding any of these different types of affiliate programs is as easy as doing a search on google. There are millions of programs so it should not be hard to get started in your quest to find the right one for you and get started making money online.