Listing Your Product on an Affiliate Directory

What is an Affiliate Directory?

Before the birth of the Internet, people used the yellow pages to find merchants that provided the goods and services they were looking for. It provided convenience to be able to search for something in just one place. This is the concept behind an affiliate directory. The only difference between an affiliate directory and the yellow pages is that the affiliate directory is available online. Different websites that offer different products and services are listed by niche, location or price offered.

Who uses an Affiliate Directory?

Basically anyone who can create a website and develop content on that website can use an affiliate directory. Unlike most directories, an affiliate directory generally provides useful information such as terms and conditions for each of the programs in their niche listings. This information includes commission rates, incentives, compensation models, terms and methods to persons who are in search for affiliate programs.

What is the purpose of an Affiliate Directory?

Aside from being listed in a niche directory wherein customers can see your products and services which increases the likelihood of a purchase or a sale, an affiliate directory can serve as an affiliate program that can work for you. Affiliate programs work by sending people to a particular website wherein they buy the company’s products; you are then given a commission for sending that customer to the company’s website. It is also beneficial for the company because through affiliate programs they can cut costs for advertising resources and can create publicity through leveraging through countless other website that affiliates with them. Amazon.com has pioneered the use of affiliate programs and has earned its 900.000 affiliate mark in 2004.

How do you make money using an Affiliate Directory?

The good thing about affiliate marketing is that you can earn money without selling anything. If you have a passion to write about a certain niche, say for example reading ebooks, you can create a blog that is concentrated on this niche and find advertisers in an affiliate directory wherein you can create an affiliate program with. Whenever people will read an article in your website and clicks on an advertisement related to your blog topic, purchases an ebook in your links page, or download a free sample, it generates cash flow into your account.