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How to Choose Affiliate Programs that Give You Residual Income

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By Melanie L. Marten
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Affiliate marketers understand the power of residual income. Whether you engage in bum marketing, or marketing affiliate programs with article distribution, niche websites, or straight affiliate product sales pages, the goal is to maximize income with minimal effort. The best way to get residual income from affiliate marketing is to find affiliate programs that pay you commission for life.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy
Instructions

Things You'll Need:

  • Website or blog (optional)
  • Internet search engine
  1. Step 1

    Locate the most popular affiliate networks such as Commission Junction, Clickbank, Linkshare, and Sharasale. A simple search for affiliate networks will help you find many of them. Sign up for one, two, or all of them so you can join the affiliate programs contained therein.

  2. Step 2

    Use the affiliate network's internal search engines, do a search for affiliate programs that are subscription based. These often include magazine subscriptions, website hosting, membership programs, and recurring billing clubs such as book clubs. These affiliate programs will earn you residual income every time the customer pays the subscription fee.

  3. Step 3

    Search the affiliate network for programs that have unlimited or lifetime cookie tracking. Cooking tracking is how affiliate programs know who to pay for the customer's purchase. If you are selling items to someone and the tracking cookie is for the entire customer lifetime, every time that person buys something from the site, you will earn money from them.

Tips & Warnings
  • Only join reputable affiliate programs.
  • Learn how to market online before spending money.
  • Never pay to get a job online.
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Comments  

zahzel said

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on 11/12/2009 Good idea for using cookies - I figured it would do some good some day instead of annoying me.

sluna75 said

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on 6/25/2009 Thank you for the information on affiliate programs.

Dino1353 said

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on 4/5/2009 Great information on affiliate programs which earn you residual income. 5*

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