Switching Referral Programs
Tuesday, April 4th, 2006 at 9:15 amFor anyone that pays attention to the referral/affiliates community, you guys already know that Amazon’s affiliates programs is now one of the not-so-well-paying programs out there. Seeing as all my links are Amazonian in nature, I’m now going to be supplementing or even removing links and switching them to other programs.
One of those programs is the Linkshare network. Several big companies do referral/affiliate work through Linkshare, including Apple (.Mac, iTunes, Apple Store), Office Depot, and Walmart, and a bunch of others. Most of these companies also have 5-10% referral payments, which is a lot better than Amazon’s 4% with $15 cap for electronics.
Update: I’m also doing stuff via Adorama’s referral program. They pay a decent rate, have the lowest prices I know of, and I tend to order all my stuff from them due to great customer service. I’ve converted most of the applicable links to Adorama.
[...] Update: Due to Amazon changing their Associates program so that website owners earn around half of what they used to (making other programs far more worthy), I’ve changed the links for the ink carts to point at Adorama instead, who has even better prices than either Amazon or Walmart. [...]