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If you have not found out yet, some of the best money to be made now is through European affiliate marketing programs.  I say this because Europeans market has not been saturated as of yet with affiliate marketers trying to make a buck.  Their are still plenty of opportunities for visionary affiliate marketers to build large sites that can attract large amounts of traffic.  But enough about that.  Lets talk about my 3 best European affiliate marketing programs.

1.  eBay.co.uk

eBay continues to surprise me with the depth of markets that they are involved in.  Did you know that they have a auction site in almost all continents and you as an affiliate marketer can build sites to incorporate eBay as a money stream.  And with all the tools that eBay provides they make it easy to put up sites that potentially can make significant money the first day of use.  Payment wise eBay has put together a very unique program that has built in bonuses and significant payout for new bidders to the eBay system.  Currently their payout looks like this:

GBP 0.00 – GBP 999.99 30.00%
GBP 1,000.00 – GBP 4,999.99 32.50%
GBP 5,000.00 – GBP 24,999.99 35.00%
GBP 25,000.00 – GBP 49,999.99 40.00%
GBP 50,000.00 – GBP 99,999.99 45.00%
GBP 100,000.00 – GBP 499,999.99 50.00%
GBP 500,000.00+ 60.00%

These are the percentages that will be received for bidders that you send to eBay for winning bids.  Of course this is in pounds so just put this into a translation program and you will see the power of this system.  As for new bidders that you send to eBay here is the break down of those payouts:

0 – 24 GBP 8.00
25 – 249 GBP 9.00
250 – 499 GBP 10.00
500+ GBP 11.00

So, for each new ACRU that you send to eBay between 1 to 24 you could receive approx. 15.85 US dollars.  And that is just on the first tier.  That makes me very excited.  That I could participate in an international market and make good money sitting here in the US.  To sign up just go to www.ebaypartnernetwork.com and follow their online instructions.  I will probably take a couple of days to get a response back so be a little patient.  In that time start researching some keywords or something.

2.  Amazon.co.uk

Amazon has not missed out on the european action either.  They have a fully functional and decked out site that is just as powerful as their US site.  And all the tools that are accessible from the US affiliate program are also accessible to the UK affiliate program also.  Payout with this program varies.  You can with opt to have a percent per product or you can opt to participate on the tier bases were you have to produce volume to make more money.  I personally like the volume systems because you only have to get 10 products sold under your affiliate account to move up to the 2nd tier.  You start out with 4% return for anything that you sell on this program.  Their are no bonuses but amazon has a large array of products so you should be able to incorporate their affiliate program into any website that you could think of.  And if you can get the traffic up you definiatly will make some money.  To signup just go to amazon.co.uk and scroll down to the bottom of the page and click on join Join Associates.  Follow the instructions once you get their.

3.  Neverblueads.com

I just started using this affiliate network but they have a lot that you can recommend to european citizens.  And the great thing about most of the programs on neverblueads are that they free programs.  That means that you can recommend a program and just ask people to try a program free.  If people sign up you get paid.  These are called freebee programs and they have a lot of them to choose from.  Neverblueads also has a lot of other affiliate programs that could make any other site that you are thinking of starting.  Payout for these programs vary from program to program.

These are my top 3 European Affiliate Marketing Programs

Are you using squidoo yet. Have you had a chance to take my advise and try squidoo with one or two keywords. If not, I hope that the title of this post gets your attention. Because I want to hammer into your mind what you are missing. Quite frankly, if your not using squidoo, then in my opinion you are not very serious about affiliate marketing. I say that because Squidoo has put together a system that is FREE, and gets you in the organic serps fast. Let me show you how I use them.

For those that know me they would attest that I dislike using PPC campaigns. I can’t fanthom spending thousands of dollars each month and by chance I find one or two keywords that make me significant money. Aside from that, these keywords may not even make money for me 5 to 10 years from now. By then Google probably would have force my campiagns out of the market. They are just to unpredictable for me. That is not the kind of mindset that I want to have. I want to build a strong business with websites that will make me money today, tomorrow and 5 to 10 years from now until I die. So, PPC marketing cannot be the way to go for me. This is just my opinion. Many other people may see it different. So, for me organic search is my best bet. The only problem with organic search is that it takes a while to get websites listed. Squidoo is the answer!!! Now you know I don’t use PPC, so you may ask how do you test keywords?

Well my technique is to create squidoo lenses and associate them with my keywords. These little lenses tend to get listed very quickly in Google. Like my most recent lense under the keyword “Dooney Burke Outlet Store”. This little lense I created 2 days ago and associated it with one of my fashion sites. Now, this little lense is on the first page of the google listing. Affiliate money will be made from eBay when people buy the purses. I am also hoping for some adsense money when people click over to my designer fashion site also.

How did I do this? My method of promotion of these lenses is very specific.

1. I link them into all my websites through a review or blogroll. Gets the google bot to the lense faster.
2. I stumble them. Social Marketing
3. I digg them. Social Marketing
4. I talk about and link to them on forums.
5. Article Marketing – I announce to the world by releasing a article or two and link to the lense.
6. Leave comments on other lense that have high PR and link back to my lense.

That is all I do. I try to do 1 to 2 lense a day with a lot of keyword research in between. Just a note about keyword research. I use wordtracker and I have found it to be very reliable. Test it out for free. I am sure you will love it.

Like I said before, that is it and you too WILL start gain 1 page Google organic search listings.