Top Affiliate Networks To Find Affiliate Programs [Mega List]: 2018 Edition

20th Apr, 2018 Harsh Agrawal

Are you looking to promote the best affiliate programs that offer high commission and also pay in time?

Today, you will be learning about the affiliate marketplaces which top affiliates use to earn millions of dollars a month. I have shared some of the popular affiliate programs for WordPress niche and also a post on the recurring affiliate programs that you can join.

I am sharing an exclusive list of top affiliate marketplaces which you can join immediately and once you are part of it, you can browse through countless affiliate programs and pick the one that suits your requirements.

Note: I will be using the term Direct affiliate program and in-house affiliate program. Both the terms mean the same thing.

Many of you might know about the benefits of affiliate networks and also refer to it as an affiliate marketplace. Those who don’t, I’m highlighting the benefit of joining an affiliate marketplace.

Affiliate program for all: One of the major problems we face as an affiliate is to find the affiliate program that aligns with our niche. In any affiliate network, you can find the affiliate program in various categories and pick the ones that suit your requirements.
Easy to reach minimum payout: When you sign up for an affiliate program directly (in-house affiliate program), the challenge is to reach the minimum payout. In an Affiliate marketplace, your minimum payout is the sum of all the affiliate programs that you promote. For a beginner, it’s easier to reach the minimum payout.
Fewer chances of affiliate sale frauds: When I joined the Hostgator affiliate program with their in-house affiliate software, it was a complete disaster. I have written about it here and have also made a video on the same. Hostgator people might not have liked me for it but eventually, they understood the problem and moved their program to ImpactRadius which offers better tracking.

There are times when the direct affiliate program can’t track the sales due to improper configuration of an affiliate software or a new affiliate manager but then there are times when some of them simply don’t want to pay you.

With an Affiliate marketplace (Network) you don’t have to worry about this problem. Their tracking mechanism is par excellence and you will be paid for your hard, as well as the not-so-hard work you put in.

I believe now you have understood the benefits of joining an affiliate marketplace. Let’s look at the best affiliate networks that you can join and start making money.

In the next section, you can read a brief about all the best affiliate network marketplaces. However, if you don’t intend to read and just sign up for the affiliate marketplaces, here you go:

Top Affiliate networks to help you make money from Affiliate marketing

These networks are in order of my personal preference and the ones that are working out for me. Some of them have limited affiliate programs to promote but don’t discard any based on that. That is because you just need one great product to promote and earn thousands of dollars, if not millions.

Clickbank

Clickbank is a popular place for marketers to discover new affiliate programs. If you don’t have a Clickbank account, I suggest you create one right away. It’s free. In the future, if you discover a good affiliate product to promote that is managed using Clickbank, you can join it instantly.

I love this marketplace. In the last 5 years of using Clickbank, I have never faced any issues with the payment. The only challenge for a new user will be the UX. Here is what the dashboard looks like:

You can do a lot of things with Clickbank. I suggest being patient when you are learning everything about using Clickbank initially. Use the image below as a reference for finding affiliate programs.

For those monetizing their web property using affiliate marketing, this is a place you mustjoin.

Join Clickbank

ShareASale

If you have attended an Affiliate summit or watched affiliate summit videos, you might already know about them.

ShareASale was founded in 2000. Ever since it has paid millions of dollars to their affiliates. They have a great list of affiliate programs for the various niche. Even though their interface is not as modern as we would like it to be, you will have no problem understanding it. ShareASale makes it easier for you to get started with affiliate marketing. If you wish to know how a company offers an affiliate program on ShareASale, you should read this guide. This will give you a backstage view of the other side.

You can join ShareASale program now. It usually takes 2-3 working days to get approval for the network. You can then follow my instructions in the video above and find the top 100 affiliate products on the ShareASale network.

Join ShareAsale Affiliate network

Commission Junction

Commission Junction is one of the most reputed and popular affiliate marketplaces for bloggers and affiliate marketers. They have been in business since 1998 and this is a place where you will find a ton of affiliate programs.

They are one of the first few that you should join. Like other affiliate networks, Commission Junction connects marketers with brands. Do fill up your profile details before you join an affiliate program under the Commission Junction network.

I have had a great experience with Commission Junction over the past 7 years and no issues with getting paid. This is a must join affiliate marketplace for any blogger.

Join CJ

Impact Radius

Impact Radius is another fast-growing affiliate marketplace where you can find many fashion, web app, hosting, and antiviruses related affiliate programs. Lately, I have noticed a lot of brands moving their affiliate programs to Impact Radius. They are one of the first to take advantage of the fingerprint technique to count the sales, which is a big advantage for marketers and also for the brands.

Join Impact Radius

Growsumo

Many of you might not have heard of Growsumo, given it’s a relatively new affiliate marketplace. I have been using it since 2016 and found many great affiliate programs here. On Growsumo, you can find products related to entrepreneurs, small businesses, hosting and few others.

What I really enjoy about Growsumo is the simplicity to join the program. The interface offered by Growsumo is one of the best and also very easy to use. They currently support only PayPal as the payment method. The minimum payout is $50 only.

Join Growsumo

Refersion marketplace

Refersion is a popular affiliate marketplace with a good number of brands. Here, you can find affiliate program in various categories. Once you are signed up, you can search affiliate programs based on various filters.

Do remember, every affiliate program is managed by the brand itself, so you will be paid for the individual programs. They also have their own rules.

You can see important details about like “Tracking Compatability”, Marketing Materials Provided and Payout method. You can also configure options to receive email notifications for the new affiliate program in any particular category.

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Don’t mistake this marketplace for ShareASale or CJ. Here, you will find the details of all affiliate programs that use Refersion software to manage their affiliate programs. The marketplace looks like it is work in progress, given a lot can be done to improve the user experience. For example, the search button is missing. However, it’s good to have another resource that lets us find and discover new affiliate programs.

Join Refersion Marketplace

Amazon Affiliate Program

A list of top Affiliate network will always be incomplete without listing the Amazon Associate Program. This is a program that works in every niche and you have a huge opportunity to make money from it.

Here at ShoutMeLoud, we have covered about Amazon Affiliate Program a lot of time and something you should definitely read. Here are a few hand-picked guides to help you get started:

Once you have gone through it, the next step is to sign up and start utilizing one of the biggest catalogs of products in the world to make money for you.

Over to you: Share your best affiliate network

These are the top Affiliate networks that any blogger, marketer, or influencer should join in to start making money from Affiliate marketing.

As the affiliate industry is growing, we can expect more cutting edge affiliate network to surface. However, you should always consider working with reputed companies as they are more customer-centricc and you will get paid.

I will keep updating the list as I discover new affiliate networks worth adding to the list.

You could also help me by recommending a network that I should add here. I will look forward to your suggestions in the comment section below.

Go ahead and make some money for yourself.

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Top Affiliate Networks To Find Affiliate Programs [Mega List]: 2018 Edition

How To Add Schema Markup To WordPress And Get Rich Snippets

18th April, 2018 BY Naveed Zulfiqar

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Most bloggers do everything possible to make their content rank higher in Google. That’s a good thing and you should always strive to increase your site’s Google rankings.

But it’s not just about where you rank, it is also about how many people click on your site in the search results.

While most people are going to click on the first result, you can improve your chances of getting clicks by adding schema markup to your content.

For example, which of these search results is more attractive to you?

Most people would say the third one, even though it ranks lower than the other two!

To help you get the same type of eye-catching search results, you need the schema markup. And in this post, I’m going to show you exactly how to add schema markup to WordPress.

What Exactly Is Schema Markup?

Schema markup is a specific type of structured data that all of the popular search engines have agreed to use.

It goes directly in your site’s code, so your human visitors will never see your schema markup on the front-end of your site. But search engines can read the code to learn more about your website.

You can see an example of how schema markup looks below:

The purpose of schema markup is to add context to your website’s content. For example, it lets you tell Google that a specific number is your review rating for a product, rather than just a random number.

Then, Google can use this extra context to give you something called rich results (formerly known as rich snippets).

Here’s how Google phrases it:

When you use structured data to mark up content, you help Google better understand its context for display in Search, and you achieve better distribution of your content to users from Search

Does Schema Markup Help You Rank Higher In Google?

There is no data to suggest that schema markup will actually improve your rankings.

But there is data to suggest that rich snippets can increase how many people click on your existing rankings.

Again, this is because schema markup helps your website stand out against the other pages ranking for the same keyword.

So even though schema won’t currently make you rank higher, it can still help you get more traffic from Google by increasing your organic CTR rate.

How To Add Schema Markup To Your WordPress Site

The easiest way to add schema markup to WordPress is by using some plugins.

The exact plugin that you should use depends on what type of schema markup you want to add, though.

Below, I will suggest some tools that all sites should use, as well as some other schema markup plugins that only apply to specific types of sites.

For more info:

You Should Use Yoast SEO For Basic Schema Markup

Yoast SEO, as well as most other SEO plugins, makes it easy to add basic schema markup to your site.

Specifically, Yoast SEO helps you add these four basic types of schema markup:

Basic organization data
Breadcrumbs
Social profiles
Homepage for search

If you use the Yoast SEO configuration wizard, you should have already filled out this information:

But you can also access its settings by going to SEO → Search Appearance → General:

This schema markup helps Google display your website in its Knowledge Graph, and it can also get you breadcrumbs in Google’s organic search results.

It’s not complete, though. Also, certain types of sites need additional schema markup…

How To Get Star Rating Rich Snippets For Product Reviews

A lot of us review products to generate traffic (and often affiliate commissions).

If you write these types of reviews, it’s very easy to enhance your site’s display by adding star ratings and the reviewer’s name. You can see an example of this for ShoutMeLoud below:

Get Star Rating Rich Snippets For Product Reviews

This type of schema markup is surprisingly easy to add – all you need is a review plugin.

I use one called Author hReview here at ShoutMeLoud. However, the product seems to be phasing out and is no more a reliable solution. This is something you should not be using and I will also be shifting to one of the other solutions that I have listed below.

However, for the better understanding let me show you how Author hReview plugin works:

All I need to do is fill out some basic information in the WordPress editor:

Then, the plugin adds this small review summary box with the proper schema markup:

And once Google sees that box, it has all the information it needs to give your review those star-ratings!

There are also plenty of other plugins that can do something similar. Two good ones are:

If you like the styles of either of the above plugins, they’re totally fine to use as well.

How To Add Schema Markup For Other Content Types

So far, I’ve shown you how to add the schema markup types that most blogs will use. You know how to add:

Basic organization and sitelinks schema via Yoast SEO
Review rich snippets via a review plugin

But what if your blog posts other types of content? Google supports a ton of different schema rich results for things like:

Events
Job posts
Local businesses
Products
Recipes
Etc.

For example, here’s what a recipe rich snippet looks like:

If you run a food blog, that’s pretty eye-catching, right?

You can see a full example of how all these rich results look like at the Google Search Gallery.

To add these other types of schema markup, you have two good options:

All In One Schema Rich Snippets – free
Schema Pro – $59

These plugins are from the same developer but go about adding schema markup in different ways.

The All In One Schema Rich Snippets lets you add a content box to your site with proper schema markup, just like the review example I showed you above. For example, you can add new content to your post for recipe data:

The All In One Schema interfaceThe recipe data that you add in this box will appear in your post according to the plugin’s settings.

Schema Pro, on the other hand, works behind the scenes. Instead of using it to add new content, you just map it to your existing content using a simple, code-free interface. The benefit is that humans won’t ever see anything beyond your normal post content.

Which is better? Well, it depends:

Schema Pro is good if you’re already using a separate plugin for events, recipes, etc. and just want to add schema markup to that plugin’s existing output.
All In One Schema Rich Snippets will still get you the same rich results, you’ll just need to display its content in your post, which may or not be something that you want to do.

Configure Rich Snippet — The Schema Pro interface

Final Thoughts On How To Add Schema Markup To WordPress

If you’re just writing regular blog posts, you probably don’t need a dedicated plugin. Just make sure to fill out the basic schema markup in Yoast SEO to take advantage of organization markup, as well as breadcrumbs and sitelinks.

If you write any type of reviews though, you should definitely consider one of the review plugins to get star-ratings in Google’s search results.

And if you’re publishing content like recipes, events, products, etc. then you should definitely get one of the specialized schema markup plugins to take advantage of the rich results for those content types.

Do you have any other questions about adding schema markup to your WordPress blog? Leave me a comment and I will try to help.

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I Downloaded the Information That Facebook Has on Me. Yikes.

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When I downloaded a copy of my Facebook data last week, I didn’t expect to see much. My profile is sparse, I rarely post anything on the site, and I seldom click on ads. (I’m what some call a Facebook “lurker.”)

But when I opened my file, it was like opening Pandora’s box.

With a few clicks, I learned that about 500 advertisers — many that I had never heard of, like Bad Dad, a motorcycle parts store, and Space Jesus, an electronica band — had my contact information, which could include my email address, phone number and full name. Facebook also had my entire phone book, including the number to ring my apartment buzzer. The social network had even kept a permanent record of the roughly 100 people I had deleted from my friends list over the last 14 years, including my exes.

There was so much that Facebook knew about me — more than I wanted to know. But after looking at the totality of what the Silicon Valley company had obtained about yours truly, I decided to try to better understand how and why my data was collected and stored. I also sought to find out how much of my data could be removed.

How Facebook collects and treats personal information was central this week when Mark Zuckerberg, the company’s chief executive, answered questions in Congress about data privacy and his responsibilities to users. During his testimony, Mr. Zuckerberg repeatedly said Facebook has a tool for downloading your data that “allows people to see and take out all the information they’ve put into Facebook.” (Those who want to download their own Facebook data can use this link.)

But that’s an overstatement. Most basic information, like my birthday, could not be deleted. More important, the pieces of data that I found objectionable, like the record of people I had unfriended, could not be removed from Facebook, either.

“They don’t delete anything, and that’s a general policy,” said Gabriel Weinberg, the founder of DuckDuckGo, which offers internet privacy tools. He added that data was kept around to eventually help brands serve targeted ads.

Beth Gautier, a Facebook spokeswoman, put it this way: “When you delete something, we remove it so it’s not visible or accessible on Facebook.” She added: “You can also delete your account whenever you want. It may take up to 90 days to delete all backups of data on our servers.”

Digging through your Facebook files is an exercise I highly recommend if you care about how your personal information is stored and used. Here’s what I learned.

Facebook Retains More Data Than We Think

When you download a copy of your Facebook data, you will see a folder containing multiple subfolders and files. The most important one is the “index” file, which is essentially a raw data set of your Facebook account, where you can click through your profile, friends list, timeline and messages, among other features.

One surprising part of my index file was a section called Contact Info. This contained the 764 names and phone numbers of everyone in my iPhone’s address book. Upon closer inspection, it turned out that Facebook had stored my entire phone book because I had uploaded it when setting up Facebook’s messaging app, Messenger.

This was unsettling. I had hoped Messenger would use my contacts list to find others who were also using the app so that I could connect with them easily — and hold on to the relevant contact information only for the people who were on Messenger. Yet Facebook kept the entire list, including the phone numbers for my car mechanic, my apartment door buzzer and a pizzeria.

This felt unnecessary, though Facebook holds on to your phone book partly to keep it synchronized with your contacts list on Messenger and to help find people who newly sign up for the messaging service. I opted to turn off synchronizing and deleted all my phone book entries.

My Facebook data also revealed how little the social network forgets. For instance, in addition to recording the exact date I signed up for Facebook in 2004, there was a record of when I deactivated Facebook in October 2010, only to reactivate it four days later — something I barely remember doing.

Facebook also kept a history of each time I opened Facebook over the last two years, including which device and web browser I used. On some days, it even logged my locations, like when I was at a hospital two years ago or when I visited Tokyo last year.

Facebook keeps a log of this data as a security measure to flag suspicious logins from unknown devices or locations, similar to how banks send a fraud alert when your credit card number is used in a suspicious location. This practice seemed reasonable, so I didn’t try to purge this information.

But what bothered me was the data that I had explicitly deleted but that lingered in plain sight. On my friends list, Facebook had a record of “Removed Friends,” a dossier of the 112 people I had removed along with the date I clicked the “Unfriend” button. Why should Facebook remember the people I’ve cut off from my life?

Facebook’s explanation was dissatisfying. The company said it might use my list of deleted friends so that those people did not appear in my feed with the feature “On This Day,” which resurfaces memories from years past to help people reminisce. I’d rather have the option to delete the list of deleted friends for good.

Your Facebook account keeps a record not only of ads you have clicked on, but also of advertisers that have your contact information, which can also be viewed in your archive.

The Ad Industry Has Eyes Everywhere

What Facebook retained about me isn’t remotely as creepy as the sheer number of advertisers that have my information in their databases. I found this out when I clicked on the Ads section in my Facebook file, which loaded a history of the dozen ads I had clicked on while browsing the social network.

Lower down, there was a section titled “Advertisers with your contact info,” followed by a list of roughly 500 brands, the overwhelming majority of which I had never interacted with. Some brands sounded obscure and sketchy — one was called “Microphone Check,” which turned out to be a radio show. Other brands were more familiar, like Victoria’s Secret Pink, Good Eggs or AARP.

Facebook said unfamiliar advertisers might appear on the list because they might have obtained my contact information from elsewhere, compiled it into a list of people they wanted to target and uploaded that list into Facebook. Brands can upload their customer lists into a tool called Custom Audiences, which helps them find those same people’s Facebook profiles to serve them ads.

Brands can obtain your information in many different ways. Those include:

■ Buying information from a data provider like Acxiom, which has amassed one of the world’s largest commercial databases on consumers. Brands can buy different types of customer data sets from a provider, like contact information for people who belong to a certain demographic, and take that information to Facebook to serve targeted ads, said Michael Priem, chief executive of Modern Impact, an advertising firm in Minneapolis.

Last month, Facebook announced that it was limiting its practice of allowing advertisers to target ads using information from third-party data brokers like Acxiom.

■ Using tracking technologies like web cookies and invisible pixels that load in your web browser to collect information about your browsing activities. There are many different trackers on the web, and Facebook offers 10 different trackers to help brands harvest your information, according to Ghostery, which offers privacy tools that block ads and trackers. The advertisers can take some pieces of data that they have collected with trackers and upload them into the Custom Audiences tool to serve ads to you on Facebook.

■ Getting your information in simpler ways, too. Someone you shared information with could share it with another entity. Your credit card loyalty program, for example, could share your information with a hotel chain, and that hotel chain could serve you ads on Facebook.

The upshot? Even a Facebook lurker, like myself, who has barely clicked on any digital ads can have personal information exposed to an enormous number of advertisers. This was not entirely surprising, but seeing the list of unfamiliar brands with my contact information in my Facebook file was a dose of reality.

I tried to contact some of these advertisers, like Very Important Puppets, a toymaker, to ask them about what they did with my data. They did not respond.

What About Google?

Let’s be clear: Facebook is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to what information tech companies have collected on me.

Knowing this, I also downloaded copies of my Google data with a tool called Google Takeout. The data sets were exponentially larger than my Facebook data. For my personal email account alone, Google’s archive of my data measured eight gigabytes, enough to hold about 2,000 hours of music. By comparison, my Facebook data was about 650 megabytes, the equivalent of about 160 hours of music.

Here was the biggest surprise in what Google collected on me: In a folder labeled Ads, Google kept a history of many news articles I had read, like a Newsweek story about Apple employees walking into glass walls and a New York Times story about the editor of our Modern Love column. I didn’t click on ads for either of these stories, but the search giant logged them because the sites had loaded ads served by Google.

In another folder, labeled Android, Google had a record of apps I had opened on an Android phone since 2015, along with the date and time. This felt like an extraordinary level of detail.

Google did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

On a brighter note, I downloaded an archive of my LinkedIn data. The data set was less than half a megabyte and contained exactly what I had expected: spreadsheets of my LinkedIn contacts and information I had added to my profile.

Yet that offered little solace. Be warned: Once you see the vast amount of data that has been collected about you, you won’t be able to unsee it.

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