Amazon:

The Amazon affiliate program is one of the oldest on the Internet if not the first. Over the years it has become more and more diverse as many new product lines have been added in addition to just books. The commissions are small within the 4-6% range and can go higher based on your selling volume. Also, when new categories are introduced Amazon, sometimes, hikes up the commission rate to promote the new product line. It's important to have Amazon as an additional affiliate because you want to have the broadest product range on your website(s).

Additionally you can easily integrate your Amazon associates account into XSite Pro web pages.

You can sign up for free here:

https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/

Oxado:

Oxado is another text based ad site which is very similar to Google AdSense. In fact you can set up Oxado ads to run when Google Adsense ads are only showing public service ads.

As with Adsense you need volume to make money. Sign up is free at www.oxado.com XSite Pro also has an easy integration with Oxado ads as well.

Pay Dot Com:

We have referred to Pay Dot Com in the payment acceptance section of this site, however Pay Dot Com is also a great place to become an affiliate for thousand of other products as well. Sign up is free as an affiliate. Commission rates run from 5% to 80%. so it's a great monetization tool. You can get additional information at the below link.

Sign-Up For Pay Dot Com here.

ClickBank:

ClickBank is a huge site that houses one of, if not the largest, inventory of digital download information based products, e.g. eBooks, software etc. It's also a great way to start selling your own information products as well. You can get more information as well on the link below. We have added a new expanded Clickbank section here.

Sign-Up for Clickbank here.

RegNow:

RegNow is part of the Digital River organization and offers some of the hottest software titles available, with commissions up to 75%! There are plenty of tools and resources available as well as over 25,000 software titles available in both the direct purchase and try-before-you-buy formats. This is a great feature as it allows your site viewers to download trial versions of thousand of software titles in many different niches. After the free download RegNow will follow up and if they convert to the paid product you will receive the commission. RegNow offers some interesting features on their products:

• Faster payments and more options increases your cash flow
• Certification by RegNow ensures you receive proper credit for driving a sale
• EPC product rankings show which products convert and pay
• Robust reporting gives you every bit of data possible
• Product Data Feed feature lets you house and display content from our catalog
• NEW - RegNow Affiliate Site Builder Tool helps you quickly build an affiliate site or landing page. This automates the process and allows you to house your own affiliate store. Great feature!

Sign -Up for RegNow here.

Google Affiliate Network:

 This is the old Double-Click Network that Google took over last year (2008) It's pretty similar to other affiliate programs as you will receive a small commission when some one clicks on a GAN ad. Since it's mostly a simple referral the commissions are small so you need some volume at your site to generate a respectable profit. However if you are paying attention to just about all of the information on this site you'll realize that making money online requires multiple sources. The Google Affiliate Network is just one more of them.

FREESign-Up for the Google Affiliate Network here. 

Affiliate.com (CPA)

This was once the old CPA Empire site. CPA or Cost Per Action offers are ones in which a prospect clicks on an ad and is then brought to a site that requires additional information such as an email address or a zip code. Depending on the offer you will receive a commission for each piece of information the prospect fills out. Generally the payouts are lower, from say 5¢ upwards to several dollars per action.

It's a another way to generate income although if you are building a quality site as an authority you may not want to implement these types of ads on your main site. Not that they aren't legitimate ads, but perhaps too commercial. They aren't for everyone or every site niche.

Monetization Resources:

FREEAdSense Sign-up: “You need to sign-up with Google to get an AdSense account to display ads on your website. If you click “AdSense Sign-up” above you will be brought to the HBR AdSense Guide Home page which has a link to the appropriate Google AdSense page for the free sign-up”

Important AdSense Tools:

FREEHyperVRE: “This is one of the best rapid development website authoring tools on the market and it’s absolutely free. They make their money on upgrades to the software. That’s upgrade not update. They are very good about providing updates to the free version. You can utilize the other templates with HyperVRE creating one of the easiest AdSense site builders available.”

VRE Toolbar: “This is a great little freebie that creates a tool bar within your Internet Explorer Browser, (There is a toolbar for FireFox as well) that provides drop down info on creating niche sites that potentially can be used for AdSense Ads. Get keyword lists and resources for building sites.”
AdWords Tools

FREEAdWords Sign-Up “Clicking here will bring you to the HBR AdWords Guide Home page and a link to the proper AdWords sign-up page. You will then have access to all of Google's ad information including their newest, Print Ads functionality. If you are an existing small business you will appreciate this function for local selling.”

Optional but highly effective AdWords Tools

KeyWord Elite: “ This is a product that you will use over and over again. If you are utilizing AdWords to drive traffic to your sites, KeyWord Elite is one tool that you will want to spend the money on as it will pay for itself by providing you with critical information about each of your keyword sets.”

FREEGoogle Keyword Tool “Google provides a free keyword tool for members. It’s a very good tool and I use it sometimes to check against Keyword Elite and Wordtracker. It’s free and it will get you up and running quickly, however if you want to optimize your ads you’ll need an outside tool.”