Although this site is about making money with Adsense the worst thing you can do as a Website Publisher is turn away from appropriate affiliate programs.

The purpose of building websites is to bring traffic to them and then monetize this traffic…Affiliate Programs can help you do this.

They make a great supplement to your page content and your ads. They can pay extremely well and they can open up new means of generating Adsense clicks, for example by adding a product store to an existing content site or by reviewing those products and utilizing Adsense as a way to monetize the browsers.

Below is a list of the major affiliate networks. Personally I tend to focus around Clickbank (digital downloads and big commissions) and CJ, but I do use the others depending on my project.

There’s a lot of money to be made in Affiliate Marketing and if you’re interested in learning the skills neccessary to compete as an affiliate I’d recommend you read High Performance Affiliate Marketing. It’s one of the few ebooks that are worth the money and that I still refer to.