10 Alternatives to Clickbank

Friday, February 12th, 2010

posted by MarkLing

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10 Alternatives to Clickbank

If you've listened to much of my training, when it comes to showing you how to find affiliate products to promote quite often I personally refer to the Clickbank Marketplace. The reason I do this is because Clickbank approves virtually everyone (unless you are from Nigeria or some other country outside their approval zones), and they have an amazing selection of products to promote with high commissions.

The other reasons are because most of the money that I make comes from Clickbank and also because they are extremely reliable with their on time payments, and I've built up a good relationship with them over the years.

However, in this blog post I want to share with you a list of other alternatives for you to consider as I don't want my own bias to prevent you from seeing that there is a whole world of affiliate offers to promote outside of Clickbank.

I think joining all 10 of these will be overkill, but billions of dollars in transactions are being made every year through these other networks, and many have fantastic offers that are not available at clickbank.

I have several affiliate millionaire friends who earn the majority of their income outside of Clickbank, and you may find some of these networks very useful to join.

In no particular order, here they are:


Plimus - Very similar to clickbank but with different offers, easy to get accepted.

Markethealth - Focuses more on health/wellbeing based offers, mostly physical products, easy to get accepted.

Linkshare - Easy to get accepted, great tracking. However often has lower commission rates because merchants have to pay a lot for the use of their service and technology. Payments often take longer than other networks.

As Seen On PC - Relatively easy to get accepted, but prefers if you can show an example website. Great because they have a lot of physical product offerings with solid payouts, which is good for your newsletter sequence if you are looking for more products to promote in a particular list or on your website.

Commission Junction - Easy to get accepted, commissions rates vary wildly, some are good, others are terrible. The interface is a little tricky, but easy when you get the hang of it. Offers a wide variety of offers, some are really well known. Offers product feeds.

Shareasale - Good ever growing selection of offers, not as large as CJ but on average the commissions are much better. Relatively easy to join and to use.

Neverblueads - They prefer intermediate and advanced affiliates to apply here. It would be better to set up and promote a clickbank or other affiliate product first before applying here so you can show an example of your website(s). Make sure you mention you will be sending a lot of ppc traffic (if you will be) as this is a good selling point to get yourself accepted here. Has great affiliate managers.

Azoogle - Similar to Neverblueads in that they prefer intermediate and advanced affiliates. They run regular affiliate contests to spice things up. I haven't used Azoogle much myself yet but I hear good things about their affiliate managers from other affiliate friends of mine.

Affiliate.com - Similar to Neverblueads in that they prefer intermediate and advanced affiliates. Some good CPA offers here, but not a huge variety. That said, some affiliates are making a killing off their top few offers.

Uniqueleads - Prefer intermediate and advanced affiliates, has some great performing offers and is an up and coming affiliate cpa network.

Now there are hundreds more networks than the ones that I've listed above, but they are ones that either I know others are being hugely successful in, or I have met personally with the networks and know of the quality of their organization and offers.

I'm interested in your comments.

All the best,

Mark Ling



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By Nelson Tan at 15:28 13 Feb 2010

Thanks for compiling this great list of affiliate networks, Mark. I like to suggest one alternative which I feel acts closest to ClickBank: Click2Sell

By Nick Makaryk at 15:41 13 Feb 2010

Thanks for all the affiliate networks, this is very well appreciated.

Great to have more than just Clickbank.

Nick,
http://acidrefluxnomore.info

By StephenPierceAffiliates at 17:07 13 Feb 2010

Great comprehensive list mark.

Another one which is pretty famous in Europe is click2sell.eu. A sort of clickbank with a "european twist" ;-)

Cheers
Alexis

By Paul at 17:48 13 Feb 2010

Thanks for the post and the list. ;)

By bgothard at 18:07 13 Feb 2010

Excellent post, Mark. Thanks for the information. I just wanted to throw in my two cents' worth.

I use LinkShare pretty extensively. Many of their programs provide an RSS feed that is easily incorporated into a WordPress site for automatic updating via readily available plugins. Easy for a less technical person to set up and use. Make sure to subscribe to their Deactivated Advertiser feed, though. They seem to have a few vendors who let their accounts lapse too often for my taste. That means if you send traffic to them during their down time, you do not get paid. Just something to be aware of and watch out for.

I also use ShareASale. Their data feeds take a little more work, but the vendors are reliable and steady.

I have a few Commission Junction campaigns running, but mainly when I need a specific, high profile vendor. They handle a lot of large mainstream companies.

By mac at 0:43 14 Feb 2010

Mark
This is very helpful for me. I can't understand How and why you can share so useful information freely. Keep up the good work!

By Linda at 3:43 14 Feb 2010

Thanks for the info Mark, You are one of my favorites!

By senja at 13:01 14 Feb 2010

Hi,

Thank you Mark, I currently using clickbank and cj in my website. Thank for sharing and I certainly will join the ones listed...

By Nan at 15:10 14 Feb 2010

Thanks for the info. Just started with CJ. The other info will be very helpful

By Pal795 at 20:22 14 Feb 2010

Hi Mark Thank for the info. i know you need a domain name and a website but i do not know how to wright content. i'm new a don't know where to start.

Can You Help Me
Thank You
Paul

By accent09 at 1:21 15 Feb 2010

I also use LinkShare and all you mentioned about them is true but they are still a good choice. So far I only made a bit of money through them.

By stargate66 at 9:33 15 Feb 2010

Thanks Mark for the info. Let me try and be successful with one avenue first and then I'll tackle these avenues :-) Thanks.

Paul, you are going to feel overwhelmed because the info that Affilorama is giving us all is overwhelming!

If you are very new, I suggest you first forget about making money quickly and set yourself up to obtain all the knowledge you can possibly get. All that knowledge is contained in this Affilorama site. Work through the whole site step-by-step, even if it takes you a couple of weeks. The picture will soon become clearer and when you are ready to start the process and you still get stuck, use an appropriate forum to get help. Nobody will laugh at you.

Also consider signing up for Affiloblueprint or premium membership which will give you more guided and step-by-step instructions and plenty of tools to use. I can assure you it is worth every penny.

Good luck
William

By Gregory Parke at 11:46 15 Feb 2010

Is paydotcom.com any good?

By Don Bengert at 16:45 15 Feb 2010

Good stuff Mark...as usual. I get alot of great advice from your emails and am implementing it into my campaign. Once the dollars roll in, Afillorama is the place to be. Thanx again, Don

By Nickolove Lovemore at 21:30 20 Mar 2010

Thanks, Mark. I didn't know about several of these Clickbank alternatives. Another site to add to this list is RapBank. It's free to sign up, there's a lot of flexibility regarding how you can select products to promote and a major benefit is that it pays instant commissions.

By Vojislav Gligorijevic at 16:05 28 Apr 2010

And my suggestion is to add another site RapBank on this list is a free application and flexibility.

By sandyjs2 at 20:38 10 May 2010

Thanks Mark I am new at this But the information look very helpful I will surely try some of these links

By Paul Hooper | Consumer Wealth System at 16:56 15 Jul 2010

Thanks for posting these alternate sites Mark. I think everyone starts out using Clickbank, but if you want to get serious about your affiliate marketing then you really need to branch out and find other products to promote that aren't being hammered by the mainstream on Clickbank.

For me CJ and ShareASale are great places to find products to promote. But I will now also have a look at some of the other places mentioned in this post.

By Dave at 20:11 31 Jul 2010

Great share on info, sure to be useful for most affilliates and newbies.
Thanks dude.

By Trey at 14:04 31 Aug 2010

Thanks Mark for the info. I believe there is enough for all of us to ge a piece of the pie. Like many, I am very new at affiliate marketing. I don't have to earn millions, but would like to earn eanough to make a living. I appreciate you sharing knowledge to help us be successful. I will keep this post in my back pocket as I make progress.

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