"Which Affiliate Programs Should You Join?"

There are so many affiliate programs in the net. For certain niches, the numbers are huge. But please be very careful in picking affiliate programs, because your reputation is on stake!

I've written an article on this tricky matter and you can read it in Affiliate Marketing Article (if you have trouble with this link, then just right-click on it, copy the link and paste it to your browser).

After reading the article, we come to a conclusion that... to reduce risk, you should never ever stick to one single merchant within your niche! Pick a couple of solid merchants in order to stand on a safe spot.

Now, to improve your research on those merchants, you can actually steal a look at their performances. How are they doing..? Let's go to:

http://www.Alexa.com

Let's say that you want to know more about this merchant named XYZ.com. Just input the domain name to Alexa and it will tell you how many links are coming into XYZ.com. These coming links are telling you the predicted numbers of its affiliates.

You'll know also how many visitors XYZ.com has. This number is often called "traffic". Alexa also shows you some other helpful stats, including the related sites of XYZ.com. From there you might find other available merchants for your niche.

Well that just ends this lesson.

You probably notice that I mentioned "rich-content sites" before in this lesson. Well, in the next lesson we are going to talk about it and see how you can build a money-making one easily. Wow, you're getting closer to your potential-high-income internet business!

Farid Aziz is the author of "How to Make Money Onine with Your Hobby". Visit http://Internet-Marketer.blogspot.com to grab your FREE copy of "Internet-Business-In-A-Box", a kit worth US$ 497.00.