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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Regards
Ray
Thanks for the information. Like always, very useful.
Of course, most of these Affiliate Nertworks were known to me, but it was only yesterday - yes, no kidding! - when I was wondering which Networks has the best CPA offers.
And here is your answer! So, your timing couldn't be better! Thanks!
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That is a fabulous list and I'm going to add some of those to my next autoresponder newsletter.
I suppose another you could add would be Amazon but only if dealing with expensive items because the payout is so low there!
Big thanks
I will note those for future reference.
AnneMarie
John
Thank you very much for the information, it was eye opening I appreciated.
You take care
Qasim Sarwary
TrafficTravis is an awesome free SEO software also and I love the brand name & ease of use
I am just getting started with CPA and want to know if you rate this method of traffic generation easier and more cost effective for affiliate marketers on a low monthly advertising budget (EG £100 a month) ?
Also veering off a tangent I could use your help with making the right choice of Auitoresponder for my business as I am torn between four at the moment, TrafficWave, AWeber, GetResponse and AutoResponsePlus (a server side install) but TrafficWave is offering 10 level affiliate commissions where as AWeber only has 1 but their email deliverability is superior people say
What is your opinion on which autoresponder offers the best all round deal and reliability?
On the subject of this excellent blog article by the way I highly recommend Clickbank to anyone starting out as an affiliate marketer and I have registered with Plimus too - but my friends use PayDotCom and I think it is easy to create your own affiliate program with them and the ease of use is better than Clickbank but Clickbank offers all the best digital info products from the top super affiliates and product creators so has to be number one for that reason alone.
Can I also suggest to your readers to have a look at PayDotCom and AffiliateJump (mike Filsaime and Joe Holland - a one stop advice & CPA website where I think you can register via them to get accepted on over 90% of CPA networks)
Am I also right in thinking that CPA networks are hard to apply for for newbies as don't you have to be getting good solid traffic stats to their affiliate managers?
Look forward to your next blog post and ezine post!
Ciao, Mike Larter, United Kingdom
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You've given me a gem in your info & it's a great help to have some positive background info on these sites, without having to jump in the deep end. Saves a lot of time too. Thanks for your help.
Linda
You given me very good info. thank for sharing and I appreciated.
but is it this 10 Alternatives to Clickbank suitable to CPA?
Dave
MIKE LARTER - I use Aweber and have never had a problem with delivery of e-mails. I do have a problem with their on-screen editor, which I loathe, and with the fact that they do not issue a follow-up e-mail if a person does not click within a reasonable period of time on the "Please confirm" link in the e-mail sent in a double-optin. I have never been able to get their templates to work properly, so I create my HTML e-mails on my own computer and then upload them to Aweber. Then I have to go through and correct the alignment on each paragraph, as their editor has a bug which they have not fixed. I also continually get errors with Aweber and Firefox saying my session has expired; this doesn't happen with IE, nor with any other web site. I have noticed that more and more IM people are sending me stuff via GetResponse, so maybe it's time for me to switch.
MARK LING - Thanks for being generous with your time and information; much appreciated.
Great to have more than just Clickbank.
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Another one which is pretty famous in Europe is click2sell.eu. A sort of clickbank with a "european twist" ;-)
Cheers
Alexis
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.
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!
Thank you Mark, I currently using clickbank and cj in my website. Thank for sharing and I certainly will join the ones listed...
Can You Help Me
Thank You
Paul
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Good luck
William
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.
Thanks dude.
That aside, great list and thanks for the advice. :D
har.
I use Clickbank, but I want to expand to other options.
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