Everything You Need to Know About WordPress Affiliate Programs – 30+ Affiliate Programs for WordPress, and How to Promote Them

Affiliate programs are some of the most popular online marketing tools, and the same is true for WordPress affiliate programs: product creators can get free initial advertising and pay out only on performance, while product promoters can get paid to recommend great products.

WordPress affiliate programs work very simply: you promote products on your blog, social media, or email list using a unique link, and if readers click on your link and buy the product within a certain number of days (typically 30 to 60), you get a percentage share of the revenue.

The WordPress ecosystem has no shortage of great WordPress affiliate programs, but this world can be difficult to navigate, the ethics unclear, and the whole setup is uncomfortable for some. How do you find the best proven WordPress affiliate programs, and the best ways of managing and promoting them?

We showed you how to monetize a blog in a previous article and this post will lift back the curtain on affiliate marketing. We’ll first look at the semantics of affiliate programs and then discuss how you should choose which products to promote and the most effective promotion methods. Finally, we’ll look at some of the best programs to join. By the end of this post, you’ll have a clear understanding of how the best WordPress affiliate programs work – and how you can take advantage of them.