Hey guys, welcome back to the course in this lecture we will talk about how to choose an affiliate network that matches perfectly, your niche and products that you wish to promote. So the main thing to consider when you're choosing an affiliate network to use, or which type of products you wish to promote, because each affiliate network will have a set of niches they are focusing on. So you will find affiliate networks for many, many product categories, and other affiliate networks that focus on other product categories, for example, add or categories, ham categories, and many, many niche categories that you can find on in a single affiliate network. So there are no affiliate networks that are focusing on all niches available and all possible niches out there. With almost unlimited options, you have to select the ones that match best the criteria you want to focus on, and which drives the most revenue for you.

Let me give you some tips on how to choose the best affiliate network that matches you. So first of all, you will need to check if the affiliate network has many, many merchants that are joined in the respective affiliate network. So if you're a blogger, make sure you have a large pool of merchants from which you can select so these merchants can be in a specific niche. And this is the best category so if your niche has many merchants available in that specific affiliate network then it is a good and well known affiliate network and you should consider using it. One Another important thing to check is if the Joining of the affiliate network is free or not. So the fact that you wish to join an affiliate network should be 100% free, and they should never charge you money because you want to join their affiliate network as an affiliate.

They will get their money from charging merchants that are promoting their products using affiliate promotions using the respective affiliate network tools. So you as an affiliate should never be charged any money for promoting other people's products. So if the affiliate network is charging you money to join, turn away fast and select an alternative. Another important thing to check if is if the affiliate network has good customer support or not. This is also a vital thing. Because you might need to contact their support in some cases.

For example, if you find some issues with the tracking links or with your affiliate links, or some links will return error pages, then you should contact immediately their support and let them know that their system is not working correctly. And in this cases, they should respond as soon as possible and fix the issues that you highlighted. Also in case when some merchants are not paying in time, which is also the case sometimes, you should always contact the merchant first and ask them if there is an issue. And if the merchant is not responsive, then you should contact the affiliate network support and let them know that the specific merchant is no longer making payments for affiliates. The next important thing to check when joining an affiliate network If the merchants are high paying or they have low commissions, so, commissions can vary from 1% for example, to almost 100% what the most common are between five and 50% commissions also you need to check how expensive are the products sold.

So, as I mentioned in lectures earlier, it is not the same if you sell a $1,000 product with a 1% commission or if you sell a $1 product with a 50% Commission. So, keep in mind that you should check the percentage of commissions and how expensive are the products that you are selling. And this was all for this lecture. I will see you in the next one.