Hi Harish,

Thank you for asking the question. Affiliate marketing is the best way to increase sales and grow your business in a short time using some trick & techniques. Given below are tips, please follow.

image source- http://topaffiliateprograms.club/

#Offer High Payout from other affiliates

If you are starting a new e-commerce website and running affiliates program to increase your sales, then you need to offer high payout to users in the comparison of available affiliate program, which are already running in the market.

#Google Adword (PPC)

This the best way to increase sales in short time, advertise locally or globally and attract customer with the products (affiliates) that they're searching for. Many users are searching affiliate programs through search engine and working as a freelancer. So you can target such users by running PPC campaign of different search engine like Google, Yandex, Yahoo and Bing etc.

#Email Marketing

According to The Radicati Group's E-Mail Market, 2012-2016 Report (released October 2012), the number of e-mail clients in the world is ~4.3 billion, with an average of 2.01 e-mail accounts per user. So you can start email marketing using attractive email content and described, why you are best from the others and offers for users.

#Social Media Marketing

Nowadays Social media are playing very important role to engage user easily, here you can promote your affiliates program features and describe, why you are best from the others.

I hope all my suggestion are useful for you.

There are many ways to advertise your program on a website. I can suggest you a few techniques that you can apply.

Search Engine Submissions :  Submit your program to all the search engines. You get good value from these submissions.

Write a Testimonial: Write a testimonial about the program and display it prominently on your site.

E-Mail Marketing - E-Mail Marketing can be a great tool for your affiliate program. Create a unique Promotional Mail based on your Affiliate Program & Send. You can send Emails through various channels , it can be an online email portal, Web-Base or Application based.

Classifieds Submission - Classified Submission can be a great idea for promoting your business.

Google Ad- Campaign -   Google Ad- Campaign are always effective for affiliate programs like image ads, video ads.

Newsletter & Online forums - Make newsletters on a  monthly basis and promote it. Join online forums. Set up your signature file to include a link back to your website.

Write and Distribute Articles - Good quality, informative articles will help drive targeted visitors to your site.

Affiliate Programs are boon to digital marketers who are starting an niche eCommerce website or who are really looking for work from home jobs. Affiliate Programs are cost-effective programs as you don't have to bear the Store Cost, Logistics Cost and the After-sales Services. But many a times it has been seen many digital marketers have done something wrong or the other to get banned or to lose their accounts or partnership from the Affiliate Programs. Recent studies shows that a website should always have not more than 2 affiliate programs.

Now coming to the point how can the affiliate programs can help you to grow your websites.

1. In SEO point of view its great to have backlinks coming from Affiliate Sites like Amazon Associates, RevenueWire, Commision Junction, eBay etc.

2. You don't have to worry about the storage, logisitics and after-sales services.

3. Now for gaining trust you have to write reviews about those products so that people can help you out to get those viewers to come on your sites.

4. Do Giveaways

5. Make a Mega Comparison Report of the products.

6. Product vs Product Post.

7. Unboxing Videos and Tutorials for the product.

8. Use Auto-responders to send email to your leads about the latest and best products.

9. Do submission of reviews in Social Bookmarking, Article Bookmarking (Slideshare, Dogstoc)

10. and finally the list of affiliate sites you would need like RevenueWire, ReviMedia, ClickBank,Rakuten, CJ Affiliate by conservant, Amazon associates, eBay, Avangate, Flexoffers.

For further queries do follow me on twitter @Duke26sagnik and good luck for your future endeavours.

So, this is what makes a good affiliate program to promote?

Accordingly,this is where you need to do your research, for every product or service i choose to promote. Apart from sites like shareasale and commision junction, the following key characteristics are as follow.

1. Email Service Provider (Autoresponder):- It is beacuse they offer everything what you want as a affliate.Use both 'Active campiagn', 'Drip' and 'Convertkit' and all pay out recurring monthly commisions. Once you choose one ,you typically will stay with it for years and years.

Email Service Provider are very easy to promote.

1. They have high social proof.

2. Easy to write reviews and case studies.

3. Free trials:-Makes it more likely for a prospect to try their service with no risk to them.

4. Sucessful businesses needs one.

2. Landing Pages Builders: These Products allows non-coders to build professionals looking landing page to collect emails, creats sales pages and more.

- Lead Page offer- Offer 30% recurring commissions, with yearly and twice-yearly options for potentially huge commissions.

- click Funnels - Offers 50% front end commissions which includes 4 upsells. Also gives you 2nd tier commissions for reerring other affiliates.

- Instapages - Earn 50% on initial payment and 30% recurring commissions for every month after.

3. Web Hosting:- In this you can easily write about your own experience with your chosen web host use tools like Pingdom and GT Matrix to show how reliable and fast your site is.

4. Word press Themes and Plugins:- It is the most popular CM online. It Powers many of the most popular blogs and sites you see on the web.