Earn money online with affiliate marketing

Affiliate marketing is an easy-to-use and free way to earn money from your website, blog and email account. It involves placing advertisements for other companies on your website or blog. Or sending newsletters with advertisements from your email account.

Visitors to your website or blog will see the ads. Should a visitor click the add or purchase something, you will earn commission for the referral.

How does Affiliate Marketing work?

Advertisers are usually large companies that want to market their products or services. They create banner ads and text links. Other companies, website owners and bloggers show the advertisements of their pages in return for commission.

You, as the website owner, register to be a publisher. You will receive a unique referral link and the code to insert in your website, blog or email. In most cases all you need to do is copy and paste the code where you want it to appear on your website or blog.

The company your registered with will have a control panel where you can see all your earnings. Depending on how popular your website or blog is, you could earn a fair amount of money every month.

Does affiliate marketing work in South Africa?

Affiliate marketing is huge overseas. Locally here in South Africa it is taking longer, but it means you have fewer competitors. Not all affiliation programs allow for South African citizens to participate.

For this reason we have compiled a pretty comprehensive list of Affiliate Networks and Affiliate Programs that are available to us here in South Africa.

Some networks will pay you directly by EFT, or post a cheque to your mailbox or pay into a PayPal account. You usually have a choice.

Affiliate Networks

Some companies manage their own affiliate marketing, while others hand it over to affiliate networks to manage on their behalf.

When you sign up with an affiliate network, you will be able to choose from many different affiliate programs, like life insurance companies, florists, online shops, etc.

The list below allows for South African citizens to participate and earn a commission. Sign up with them and start earning money.

• OfferForge
• Affiliate South Africa
• AdMarula
• Share-a-Sale
• GainRock
• Magenet
• Affiliate Network
• Commission Junction
• Avangate Network
• Google AdSense

Affiliate Programs

These programs are offered directly by the company involved in paying you a commission. The average incentive is 10%, but each program varies.

The list below allows for South African citizens to participate and earn a commission. Sign up today and start earning money!

Accommodation & Travel

• TripAdvisor 50% Commission
• JustGo pays R24 per booking
• Bushmanskloof Hotel 10% commission
• Hotels.com Unknown
• Travelstart R90 – R125 per booking
• SafariNow 15% commission

Health Products

• Trion:Z 15% commission
• Health Makers 10% commission
• Master Health Products 10% commission
• Faithful to Nature Unknown
• Get Collagen 10% commission

Energy Saving Products

• Sustainable 5% commission
• Future Light 7% commission
• Solar Cookware 5% commission

Online Shopping

• Sell SA 6% commission
• Loot 5% commission
• Mantality 10% commission

ISP (Internet Service Providers)

• Stallion Hosting 25% commission
• Absolute Hosting 10% commission
• Ample Hosting 10% commission
• GoDaddy 10% – 15%
• BlueHost $65 per sale

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