TradeDoubler

A third affiliate scheme to consider.

TradeDoubler is another high profile scheme with absolutely loads of merchants to work with.

TradeDoubler has so many merchants to join that even after a few years of using them, I've hardly scratched the surface of the big and small names they work with. The downside of the TradeDoubler network is that all merchants have to accept your application and if you are working with multiple sites, then you have to apply to each merchant for each site.

But the choice of merchants is fantastic. The only other problem is they do have about the slowest of the payment schedules of the three schemes - for some merchants.

The merchants can either prepay or not. Those that prepay deposit with TradeDoubler and when you earn a commission, it's in a pending status for a short while then it's ready for payment in the next payment schedule.

But the majority of the merchants I use aren't on this scheme. Instead these are invoiced after the transaction and should pay TradeDoubler by a certain date, which allows you to be paid by TradeDoubler a couple of months after the transaction. For example, in theory, commissions earned in October are invoiced in November asnd paid in December. But sometimes merchants pay late, which means affiliates being paid late. One commission for £120 earned in October is still waiting to be paid now - hopefully it will be paid late February.

But that's not the norm. Most TradeDoubler transactions are paid to me within the two months time scale, so with the variety and payments on offer, it is well worth joining.

Affiliate Future

Continuing the look at affiliate schemes for those wishing to earn an income from a website.

Affiliate Future - this was another I joined several years ago and my commissions here have peaked and troughed as I have changed my emphasis on what types of sites I'm promoting.

Affiliate Future is really great for most people considering getting into affiliate schemes. There is a reasonably large range of merchants and every one that I've joined has always been on auto accept - there is no waiting for merchants to review and accept your website. You don't even need to list all of your websites.

Affiliate Future is especially good if you are working in the travel industry. There's an excellent range of top name brands from the travel industry on their website.

I've always found Affiliate Future easy to use with regular payments. Their schemes don't match too closely to my needs at the moment, but when I can use their merchants they are always good.

Affiliate Window

If you already run a website or blog with traffic, then one of the easiest ways to earn some cash can be by including Affiliate Scheme Adverts. Here are some of the popular schemes that I currently successfully use:

Affiliate Window - About the first affiliate scheme I joined was Affiliate Window. Since I've joined they had made the application process a little more difficult, so I tend to advise my web design customers to wait until their websites are established before applying here, but Affiliate Window does have an excellent range of merchants - a wide variety of categories with plenty of choice.

With Affiliate Window, most of the merchants will auto approve you when you click on the links to join their schemes, but there are some that will manually approve you. I've been known to wait months before giving up waiting for one or two merchants, but overall this isn't the case.