I spent this afternoon finding and joining UK affiliate programs and I never want to fill in another form as long as I live. I thought it might be useful to some of you UK based people if I listed all the programs I found.
- Advertising.com – I attempted to register with them but got a server error. I tried another couple of times and go the same thing but then I got an email saying that they will revie wmy application within 5 business days.
- Affiliate Future – I’ve been with them for about a year and have made a few sales here and there. They’ve got a pretty good selection of products but their interface and reporting could be better.
- Affiliate Window – I’d heard good things about them but never joined because they charge you £5. Even though that is refunded along with your first payout, I figured there were so many free options so why bother paying. Well I bit the bullet and joined so am curious to see what they have on offer.
- Affilinet – I applied but they take a couple days to review my site and confirm membership.
- Afform – I applied but haven’t heard back from them yet.
- Buy.at – I applied and was accepted straight away.
- Clixgalore – I’ve been using them for over a year but have only ever sold one product. They seem to have a lot of Australian products for sale as well.
- Commission Junction – I have had an account for ages but it got suspended because I never used it. It reactivated once I logged back in. I think I’m registered with the US version of the site though because I don’t see many UK products.
- Netklix – These guys seem to be overhauling their site but there’s a button to ‘Register for Updates’.
- Ocean Affiliates – The only websites I found seemed to be affiliate sites for affiliates and I couldn’t actually find the Ocean Affiliates main site.
- Offers Quest – I didn’t bother applying to them because I need to use an email address that uses my domain name. I can easily create one but couldn’t be bothered at the time.
- Online Media Group – I filled in their application (at least I think I did, I started to lose track at this point!) and haven’t heard anything back from them.
- Paid On Results – I applied and was accepted straight away.
- R.O.Eye – I tried to register and it told me my user name was taken. So I tried to log in with my usual user name and password and it logged me into the Tradedoubler website. Strange.
- Silver Tap – I filled in the form only to see that a VAT number (a tax thing in the UK) is required to complete the process. I don’t have one so sent an email to see if there’s a way around this.
- Smart Quotes – This one deals mainly with financial services stuff. I applied but haven’t heard back yet.
- Tradedoubler – I’ve been using them for a year and think have made a grand total of about £20. I find that I can’t always log into their site. No idea why but it’s frustrating.
- Web Gains – I was accepted straight away.
- Zanox – I was accepted staight away with this one too but they seem to deal mainly with German products.
By the time I was finished applying to them all, I was sick of thinking about affiliate programs so I haven’t done much exploring to see what sorts of products are on offer. Sifting through the products on offer and finding ones that apply to my sites will be a days worth of mind numbing work in itself. It’s frsutrating that most of the affiliate sites don’t allow you to see their client list before you sign up so you have to go through the process before getting to take a look. I’ll spend some time this week looking through the products on offer and will be able to let you know which affiliate sites seem to be the best for product selection, interface, reporting etc.
If anyone knows of other programs, post a link in the comments section and I’ll check it out.
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