Dating website are one of the favorite place for all ages of people. This is based on the fact that there are millions of people registered in many online dating websites. Dating websites are used for different purposes ranging from chatting to serious relationship. There are hundreds of persons who are getting married with the help of dating websites. Dating websites not only serve people who are just looking for making a friend or for a casual relation but also cater to those who are looking for their soul mate or those who are looking for social networking.

Dating sites also feature ease of use registration. Joining a dating website is usually easy—it consists of providing your name, gender, zip code and an email address. You will have to activate your account by clicking on a link in a confirmation email; then you can begin creating your profile.

There are thousand of thousands individuals joining dating website on a daily basis and gives a fair opportunity to an affiliate marketer to make cash out of it. Most of the dating websites have affiliate programs and pays you upto 100% commission on per sale basis or flat commission on per registration basis which is free to join.

So if you have a site that has anything to do with dating or finding compatible partners, Here is a review on few dating website which are worth to promote:

Friendfinder.com: Friendfinder is one of the hottest site in online dating world. This is evident from the fact that it has over 1.7 million active members with thousands of members joining every day. It gives you many added feature which sets it apart from other dating website. Like social networking website, it features group wherein you can meet people of similar interests. It also offers blog feature where you can express your personality. You can also join chatroom to socialize yourself with other members.

It also gives variety of options to affiliate towrads payment option. Currently they have three options:
(1) Per member payout: They pay you $2.00 for each woman and $1.00 for each man that signs up for a free membership.
(2) Percentage program: The more traffic you send, the more you earn with percentage program. You receive a percentage of initial orders and reorders.
(3) Per Order payout: Earning cash is a no-brainer with our per member order program. Every premium member sign-up earns you a $25.00 payout. The only question is – how many memberships will you drive today?

Seniorfriendfinder.com: Senior FriendFinder is a personals network of 16 different sites that caters to all kinds of people, interests, and desires — with over 8 million active members worldwide. Senior FriendFinder has been a leader in online personals since 1996, making them one of the oldest and most established of its kind on the Internet. This is one of the few dating website which is exclusive for senior members and belong to the same group of friendfinder.com.

It also gives variety of options to affiliate towards payment option
(1) Per member payout: They pay you $2.00 for each person that signs up for a free membership.
(2) Percentage program: The more traffic you send, the more you earn with percentage program. You receive upto 60 percent of initial orders and reorders.
(3) Per Order payout: Earning cash is a no-brainer with our per member order program. Every premium member sign-up earns you a $25.00 payout. The only question is – how many memberships will you drive today?

Perfectmatch.com: This site is bit unique in terms of what it offers than other dating websites. The site has developed Duet compatibility system which takes in the account the whole you – personality, life and love style, value and preferences – matching you on what really counts in a lasting relationship. The member receive Free compatibility profile, In depth member profiles and powerful search tools.

They have affiliate programs in association with commission junction and offer one of the best payout in this industry. They pay $1.50 for every new member who sign up for free membership and also gives you a chance to earn up to $140 for paid members.

Metrodate: Metrodate.com is the best way to meet singles in your city or around the world! Search member profiles with personal messages, photos, videos, and voice messages from singles that are anxious to meet you! Sign up for a free membership to create your own profile, visit the chat rooms, message boards, dating tips and more! Premium membership is also available! Singles travel, singles events, nightlife and restaurant guides, and much more!

Isn’t it exciting. So if you are ready to give the same flavor to your website visitor, you should be a part of this affiliate program which operates affiliate on its own as well as through commission junction. Through commission junction, you will be eligible for payment of $1 for every free sign up and 99% commission for the first order placed by the referral.

Eharmony.com: eHarmony.com, the Internet’s premier matchmaking site, continues to be the gold standard of what a relationship service website should be. eHarmony’s continued success is based, in part, to the diversity of their members, the quality of their matches and their commitment to high quality customer service.

This website too pay you for free membership which is $0.50 for every registered sign up which completes relationship questionnaire and $100 for every member that subscribes.

Lavalife: Lavalife is one of the largest online dating sites around! Over 15 million members have joined and connected in one of their 3 unique communities. As the online personals market continues to grow, so too does Lavalife’s member base.

Lavalife has a unique brand promise to provide members with the opportunity to celebrate their single life. Lavalife’s 3 unique communities let their members find like-minded singles based on their needs, whether it be Dating, Relationship or Intimate. As of now, they don’t pay you for free sign up like friendfinder but they pay 100% CPA (Cost per action) on every referral. For example, their one month membership cost is $29.99 and if someone sign up for one month membership, you will get paid full amount of $29.99.

Date.com: Established in 1997, Date.com has strong brand recognition and has helped thousands of singles find their perfect dates. They have over 8 million members and it also offers free sign up. However you become eligible for your affiliate commission only if someone sign up for paid membership. It offers flat payout of $35 for every new sign up regardless of how much member pay for sign up.

Apart from $35 for each member, It also offer monthly promotions reward to loyal Affiliates with higher payouts, gifts and even trips. Top producers earn bonus checks above and beyond their standard payout. It also gives one time bonus of $100, if you give them 5 or more signup in first calendar month.

Match.com: Match.com is world’s largest online dating site, offering a fun, private, and secure environment for meeting other singles. Hundreds of thousands of people each year find the one the one they are looking for on Match.com!

Match.com affiliates are paid a commission on new subscriptions acquired from their website. All Match.com affiliates earn 75% of the initial subscription price. Those affiliates who generate over thirty subscriptions in a month receive 100% of the initial subscription revenue for all subs that month – not just those over thirty.

Chemistry.com: Again one of the popular dating website which ranks around 10000 in Alexa offers excellent payout to their affiliate. However it is limited to subscribtion based and does not pay for members who sign up for free.

They give 100% commission on first time subscription revenue. Affiliates who generate 50 or more subscriptions in a calendar month earn a 25% bonus on all first time subscriptions generated that month! So if you think yoour website can bring good conversion rate, this affiliate program will help you to earn huge commission. Additional features of Chemistry’s industry leading affiliate program: lifetime registration tracking, interactive personality tests, highly converting creative updated frequently etc.

A small group of people might have used affiliate programs to earn a living few years back but now the concept has changed. There are thousands of thousands people who earn their living on affiliate program and many of them are very successful earning six figure income. Affiliate programs are also known as referral programs or associates or partner. Different companies name it differently but the ideas remain the same. The simple idea is selling other product through your website and earning flat commission or percentage revenue sharing.

Since affiliate programs offer great potential, you can see millions of people who are involved in this but not all are successful. I come across hundreds of website on a daily basis where I could see hundred of referrals link posted in a single website. I wonder if they make any money out of their website in this way of promoting affiliate links. I have a plan to post quality affiliate programs in this website in the coming days, where you can benefit with participation. However before doing so, I would like to go through basics of it which will be useful for the beginners.

First let me explain about affiliate programs and how it works. As discussed above, this is also called as referral programs, partner or associates. When you don’t have any product to sell to your customer, It offers a great substitute to let you sell other company product and you earn a commission for that. For example, you offer advice on friendship, dating or sex topic to your website visitor but you don’t have any product to sell, it will be great to affiliate with some dating website and promote their link in your website. Your website visitor will find your affiliate program relevant and you earn a commission for that reference whenever your website visitor make a purchase using the affiliate program link given in your website. There are affiliate programs, where you get flat commission on per visitor basis, whether they make any purchase or not are irrelevant.

There are very few affiliate programs, where you have to pay fees to become affiliate while most of them are free. There is some where they even provide you customized website to get web traffic. When you register for an affiliate program, you get a link where your affiliate ID is embedded and you need to use the same link while sending your visitor to the affiliate websites and your website visitor and sales will be tracked.

Earning Potential
There is a huge earning potential and there could be many ways to earn money depending on your agreement with the affiliate programs. It could be classified into following:
(1) Pay per click: Here you get paid based on how many of your website visitor click on your affiliate links.
(2) Pay per sales: In this case you will get paid flat commission say $50 on per sale
(3) Percentage earning per sales: You will get paid certain percentage of transaction value, it varies between 10% to 75% depending on programs.
(4) Pay per leads: these programs pay their affiliates based on the number of visitors they refer who sign up as leads. This simply means the visitor fills out some requested information at the merchant site, which the merchant site may use as a sales lead or sell to another company as a sales lead.

Many affiliate programs also pays you in slabs. For example, if you have done 100 sales in a month, you will get paid 40% of the transaction value, for 100-149 sales in a month the commission will be 50%, while for 150-199 sales the commission will be 60%.

Does it really help to become affiliate of many programs!!!
Not really. I have come across thousands of website who wants to make money through affiliate programs and displays hundreds of affiliate links. These sites focus only on affiliate links and do not support the program with content. These links may help webmaster to pick up some new programs but will not help your website visitor to buy any product from your link. Since most of the affiliate programs are free and easy to join and also you get free web page, people sign up for many affiliate programs and they find it difficult to focus on any product. Instead I think the best way to promote affiliate links supported with lots of content. You should promote few affiliate programs which are related to the content of your website. Also you should be careful while promoting any affiliate programs. You should concentrate only on high quality programs where your website visitor should feel satisfied with your recommendation. You should target promoting any affiliate programs with detailed review on that program. If your website visitor find that review relevant and useful, they will visit your affiliate link and conversion ratio will be very high. And if your recommended program satisfies your website visitor, there is more chance for your visitor to come back to your site and look for another review.

What I mean to say that if your website focus on dating advice, matrimonial issues etc. you should pick up affiliate programs which are dating or matrimonial websites. You can also promote books on the same subject preferably with your affiliate links of Amazon. But you should not give link of search engine Optimization Company in your dating website. This will not lead your website visitors anywhere. However when your website focuses on creating a website related stuff, you should consider search engine Optimization Company as an affiliate programs.

I also prefer to consider 3-4 affiliate programs in the same category. For example if your website discuss topics related to matrimonial issues, you should consider 3-4 quality affiliate links in this category and you should give your honest opinion for each programs with your affiliate links. Based on your review, each visitor will find different reviews useful and would like to go for your recommended product. Once they feel satisfied with your recommendation, they become your repeat customer and your website gets credibility among your visitor. This will also help you to get lot of traffic through word of mouth publicity.

So the idea is you should not focus on affiliate links, instead you should focus on your website content and your affiliate links should support your website content. so keep the content unique in your style and update it frequently.

Which affilaite programs to choose
There are many affilaite programs to pick up. Many operates independently while many operates through affiliate network like commission junction or click bank etc. To start with, you should sign up with commission junction or click bank and search for the related category. You will get many programs related to your website theme and commission junction will do all to support you. They will provide you all the historical data of particular affiliate programs, banners and text links etc. You can check your report (traffic and sales data etc.) at anytime by going to commission junction website and you will get paid every month directly from commission junction.

Excerpts from Commission Junction’s website

“Commission Junction’s network, the CJ Marketplace*, provides publishers with opportunities to partner with leading advertisers while having access to millions of links and offers. Commission Junction provides transparency by publishing the performance metrics of all advertisers, their respective ads as well as publishers within the CJ Marketplace.”

Click here to join Commission Junction network. However to sign up, you need to have domain name and website.

Steps to start affiliate programs

1. Book a domain name and web space
2. Publish website based on any topic of your interest
3. Search for the appropriate affiliate programs based on your website theme
4. Sign up for affiliate program, write a review and publish it in your website with your referral link
5. Start promoting your website through forum, classified etc.
6. Work on search engine optimization and start getting traffic from search engine
7. That’s it, your website visitor will help you to earn through your affiliate programs