Top 10 Affiliate Program Tools and Websites

Through the years as an affiliate marketer I've come to use and rely on a few websites and tools that help me greatly in my online marketing efforts. Read on as I list and briefly touch on the ones I absolutely would not want to be without.

Note that some of these tools are free to use and some come at a monetary cost, but ALL have proven themselves to me to be very effective and have helped significantly in my quest to generate affiliate income.

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My criteria for these selections are very simple. The tools you'll see listed below either save me measurable time, or directly impact my ability to generate revenue.

So here it is my Top 10 Affiliate Program Marketing Tools:

The first tool I would not want to be without is the keyword research tool Keyword Elite. It is considered by many to be the gold standard when it comes to keyword research tools.

No. 2 - The website statistics service from Google known as Google Analytics, an enterprise level statistics service offered completely free of charge.

No. 3 - For a site building application I just don't think you can beat WordPress. With an ever increasing pool of freely available themes and plugins WordPress is a ridiculously flexible application.

No. 4 is a combination of the affiliate program directories Commission Junction and ClickBank. Anyone who joins these two directories will find you have at your fingertips more high quality goods, products and services than you will ever be able to get around to promoting.

No. 5 - Either one of the free email services offered by Yahoo, or the big G's service Gmail. There are hundreds of free email services available, however if you insist on using a free email service I like the immediate name recognition of these two.

No. 6 - I have to put The Super Affiliate Handbook on any list of tools that I create because it has been for me as it's title implies, my super affiliate handbook.

No. 7 - Web hosting service from Hostgator. Even if you haven't already done so at some point you're going to want to put a website or two, (or 200). I've dealt with a couple dozen hosting companies over the years and I have to say Hostgator is the most hassle free outfit I've found.

No. 8 - Speaking of putting up websites, you're also going to want to pick up a pocketful of domain names as you grow and there is no better domain name registrar than GoDaddy.com

No. 9 - For learning the affiliate marketing ropes you'll definitely want to get familiar with the forum at AssociatePrograms.com, It is quite simply one of the best free forums on the internet.

No. 10 may be one that's for the slightly advanced affiliate marketer but RSS to Blog certainly belongs on my top 10 list of tools. This little gem has literally saved me weeks in terms of time. It's pricey but it's really well worth it.

So there you have it, my top 10 affiliate program marketing tools.

Top 10 Affiliate Program Tools and Websites