This article is a guide to the best affiliate networks, as voted for by myself. I have been an affiliate now for several years, and have signed up to many big affiliate networks (which allow you to choose from affiliate programmes they offer and receive payments in bulk). Networks I’ve tried include CJ.com, Clickbank, Affiliate Future, Affiliate Window, Market Leverage (CPA) and Linkshare.com. The affiliate networks named below are the ones that I have had greatest success and conversions with. This doesn’t mean that the others are bad by any means, just that I chose products that I couldn’t make profitable sales with

Affiliate Window

Catering to the UK market most specifically, the Affiliate Window network offers affiliate programs for a huge selection of high street brands and online stores which offer UK delivery. This is my favourite affiliate network for the quality of merchants, products and bi-monthly bank transfer payouts (at no extra charge). The below is a screenshot of some of my recent earnings through this network:

Merchants you can be affiliated with include:

• Play.com
• Marks and Spencers
• Vodafone
• Sky
• Currys
• ELC
• New Look
• PC World

Best features:

• Deep link builder tool – creates your product links automatically and tracks where your clicks from from clearly in your Aff Win analytics reports
• High quality merchants’ websites – no poor quality landing pages as all the affiliate programmes are for big name brands. This gives you the option of  direct linking to products and seeing good conversions, if you prefer not to use your own landing webpage for PPC campaigns.
• Shop window – an online store front that you embed into your website. Shop window provides your visitors with the top-selling products across the 4.5 million products on offer from 700 merchants through the network. Selling any of these through your online store will result in a commission.  See the demo site here
• Useful reports - breakdowns of where your conversions come from, including keyword tracking clicks (very useful for PPC!), earnings by merchants, earnings per click (again, useful for PPC to see if you’re in profit at a glance), and performance over time.
• Easy way to find affiliate programmes that convert and pay out - you can search for new merchants by important features like network earnings of affiliates, top rated (‘star performer’) programmes – those which genuinely convert best for affiliates, conversion rates, programme approval rates, and current payment status (if the programme is currently paying affiliates ).
• Good conversions - I’ve actively promoted about 3 affiliates through the programme (but hundreds of different product types through these), and 2 of 3 have converted really well, with daily sales resulting in profits through my PPC campaigns. Oh, and I don’t use my own landing pages either – but direct link to merchant pages… which usually isn’t recommended, but works for me with the programmes I’ve chosen.

You can sign up with Affiliate Window to become an affiliate here:

It costs £5 to register as an affiliate, but this is credited to your account when you are approved.

Other Affiliate Networks

I am also currently testing Market Leverage (CPA Offers), Clickbank and CJ on some of my sites. They are not converting well at present. I don’t like the quality of offers through MarketLeverage or Clickbank to be honest, but I am testing them nonetheless. This list will be updated when I have sustained success or good experiences with other affiliate networks.