SINGLE-TIER
AFFILIATE PROGRAMS
What
Are Single-Tier Affiliate Programs?
Single-tier Affiliate Programs
pay only one level deep. Depending on the type of web site you have this
may make little difference to you. Some webmasters provide information
sites to other webmasters and may prefer a 2-tier (or more) type of Affiliate
Program --- if other webmasters sign up to the programs through them they
at least stand the chance of earning some residual income from their hard
work.
What you will want to look
for in a good single-tier program will depend on your content, how much
time you have available to promote it, and what you feel will give you
the best click-through/conversion ratio. Some sites do very well marketing
only a few programs (3 or 4) on a multiple page site... others do better
with multiple-stream income. These are some of the decisions you will have
to make when choosing which programs are right for you.
Choosing
An Affiliate Program To Add Content
An example of a single-tier
Affiliate Program we chose for adding content while at the same time making
money from the added content on one of our sites (time4me.com)
is Art.Com
.
Time4me carries a fair amount of free
icq/email postcards (click
here for an example) and we incorporate prints from Art.Com to enhance
the poetry on the cards. We make commissions from any prints purchased
through links on our site. We don't make a lot of money on the program,
but it is more than enough to warrant continuing with them --- both for
the income and more importantly for the content.
Plug-in-Email
by Everyone.net - Offers full-featured, lifetime, web-based @YourDomain
email to your site. We added this service to our site at Time4me. With
well over 250 users of "our" mail it has turned out to be quite successful
- we share 50% of the banner ad space with Everyone.net
which can bring us additional income.
All of the above programs
bring value-added content to our sites. There are many programs to choose
from which can do the same for your site.
Choosing
An Affiliate Program To Match Content
Some examples of a single-tier
Affiliate Programs we chose because it matched our content are:
