I have a couple of products that sell pretty good and have a reasonably high payout per sale, and I'm trying to find more affiliates for the product.

I'm using ClickBank and an in-house program (they are seperate), but I haven't really found a good, effective way to advertise the affiliate program.

I've seen some "affiliate directories", and even listed my program on a few, but they mostly seem to highlight their own programs and do little to promote the affiliates listed there.

Are there any good, effective directories or sites that I can list my affiliate program with? Or are there any services that hand-submit to hundreds of affiliate directories?

It seems like whenever I see ads for affiliate programs, it's always on that product's site or in their newsletter. (Do you send out a newsletter?)

I just Googled for -- market OR sell + affiliate -- and got 14,300,000 listings. And you couldn't find anything worthwhile that way? Hmmm...

Then I wondered if any of those sites had newsletters so I Googled for -- "affiliate program" + directory + newsletter -- and got 561,000. Might be worth snooping around.

Next I Googled for -- track + ad -- to see if your ad came up in the first page of listings or in the AdWords. <hint><hint>

What about advertising it to your current happy customers? Did you try that? If so, what kind of response did that get?

One thing that might be of interest...

When I was trying to improve my other site (online store), I searched for info on that and landed on an article which was more of a glowing review of Ken Evoy's SiteSell! (HUGE!) ebook set -- but the kicker was, the writer was an affiliate, and it's no secret that Ken Evoy has a sweet affiliate program. So it appeared to me that the writer submitted his review to various places just to score some $$ on the affiliate program.

Which goes back to how powerful (and free!) submitting articles on helpful topics to places where your target customer will find them and including your URL in the byline to drive lots of traffic to your site.

What are the products that you want affiliates for?

There may be people on this forum who would be interested in helping you. Posting to relevant forums is a great way to seek out motivated affiliates. I won't post a list here - don't want to divert too many people from this outstanding forum Send me a PM and I'll give you a list of forums that might be useful.

have you considered placing the program with some of the bigger companies, such as cj.com?

Thanks for all of the great suggestions guys. I will definately send out an email to my current user-base to see if I can find any affiliates there.

keilo, the products that I sell through my affiliate program are the ones in my signature.

My problem with "affiliate directories" is that they seem to be completely focused on advertising the site owner's affiliate programs rather than the ones in the directory, so I'm not sure if it's worth the time to submit to them.

Hi.

I use the website in my signiture to market my affiliate products. It gets you free opt-in leads that you can market to.

Hope this helps.