Top five independent affiliate marketing programs for indian bloggers.

In last post about top 5 ways to make money from your blog I have mentioned affiliate marketing as one of the way to make money from your blog. In this article we will review the india's best affiliate sites which are also e-commerce sites. Now we will review the top e-commerce affiliate sites in India:

Flipkart:


Flipkart is the number one e-commerce site in India (though there are serious glitches in their service!). When it comes to online shopping Indian customers will definitely move towards flipkart site. So you will good chances of earning. Still Indian customers are not too open about Amazon and ebay when it comes to online shopping. They prefer their own version of Amazon. Flipkart affiliate program is trusted and tested over the times. It has great tools to add banners and links in your website. But flipkart's commission rates are slightly lower. They will pay the commission of 1% for products in the category home & kitchen, personal health care, audio, gaming devices and consoles while commission rate for computers and laptops is only 0.5% but you will get 10% commission on books! So products with high value have very less percentage but due it's high price you will make handsome income using flipkart's affiliate program. You can payout in the form of flipkart coupens as well as you can payout as cash in your bank account also.

Snapdeal:


Snapdeal is another trusted and valued e-commerce site in India. Snapdeal also offers wide range of products and good opportunity for their affiliates to make some handsome income using their affiliate program. Snapdeal pays flat 10% commission for every electronic product purchased on their website using affiliate link but their is one glitch. The glitch is that you can earn a maximum of Rs.1250 of commission per sale! For other products snapdeal pays 20% flat commissions and you earn maximum of 1250 Rs. per sale in this category also. So maximum you can earn for a sale Rs.1250, no matter what is the price of product. As declared on their affiliate page your commissions will be show as per the rate of 10% of every purchase for categories other than electronics products it will be adjusted to 20% at the time of validations. So it is also one of the best affiliate programs for Indian bloggers.

Amazon India:


Amazon is the big boss in e-commerce category, and we can not deny that. Though in India their journey has been very difficult and they are getting steady in their business. Amazon has the worldwide presence and it can definitely offer some extra services and tools to their affiliate marketers. It is also tested and trusted affiliate program which is definitely not a scam. Amazon pays higher commission rate for their affiliate partners. For ex.As an affiliate partner of amazon you can earn 4% on electronics (Which is more than flipkart and snapdeal!), 15% on shoes and clothing, and 10% on all other products. It pays definitely higher than its competitors but please go through the conclusion paragraph before you decide which to join and which to avoid.

ebay india:


eBay may prove to be good option for Indian bloggers to make some money online through their blog. But there some glitches and difficulties in their program. You can read the problem faced by India's one of the top blogger Mr. Amit Bhawani here. Though we don't know the actual matter, I feel that these sites should help their problems by discussing instead of banning of accounts. But if you leave such matters as they arise only sometimes, it is good option tomake money from your blog. Sometimes you can earn upto 200% of commission rates as explained on their site. For this you have direct reactivated customer (customer who has not bought anything since last 12 months as per their site.). I tried to find their commission rate but I could not find them in detail. But if sum up all the opinions around the web ebay is good affiliate marketing choice. Along with that ebay has good tools to promote their product on your blog or website.

Jabong:


Jabong has very less number of trusted customers and they working hard to grow it. But if we think about trustability factor then it lags. Trustability in sense of customers only! It is also paying and guanine affiliate marketing program for Indian bloggers but if their customer base is not good then customers will tend to buy their goods from other sites. Jabong offers commission rate of upto 10% per sale but they don't provide detailed information about commission rates. Still it is good affiliate marketing program.

Affiliate marketing is among the best ways to make money online. If your site has hight to moderate traffic then you can earn good income through it but for blog eith low traffic it will difficult to convert those less users in users. To get success in affiliate marketing you need to have your blog dedicated for specific niche, which will give you higher conversion rates.
While choosing affiliate networks make sure you are choosing more than two. Because when it comes to users they might like to purchase from one site while they hate purchasing from other sites. Another reason for choosing more than two affiliate programs is that sometimes same item may have different prices and you can show users the price comparison there by helping them to buy the item more efficiently. Also there is not limit on joining of affiliate programs and most of these are programs are very easy to get approval.
Although you might join one of these networks but there is always an open option to make money from your blog. Here is the list of top ten advertising networks for your blog and you might want to checkout these
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