Highest Paying Affiliate Programs

The highest paying affiliate programs online, in terms of dollar amount earned per conversion, are primarily related to the finance or travel industries. Finance affiliate programs include credit card offers, ranging from $20 to $120 per approval, student loan offers, and home loan offers. Travel affiliate programs include both flight sales and vacation packages.

Making money from a site or blog in these industries only requires a small readership. Even with an approval rate of .5%, one hundred readers a day can garner more than $1500 a month from credit card applications.

Our advice is to focus your blog or site on a niche within the finance or travel industry. For example, low interest college student credit cards or summer vacation packages. Here are some examples of affiliate programs within each high paying industry.

Finance Affiliate Programs

• NCS Reporting – NCS Reporting provides access to affiliate programs for major credit cards and other finance products. Reporting is pay-per-click based and pays several dollars per click for targeted traffic.
• Performics – Performics, which is part of Doubleclick, provides affiliate programs for all major credit cards with payouts ranging from $20 to $100 per credit card approval.
• Driver Loans – Driver Loans is a lead generation site for auto financing loans. Average payout is $9.60 per lead.
• Next Student Affiliates – Provides student debt consolidation and loan referrals. Pay outs start at $100 per validated application.

Travel Affiliate Programs

• Orbitz – The Orbitz affiliate program is managed through LinkShare. Commissions from $5 to $30 can be earned on various travel products.
• Travelocity – The Travelocity affiliate program is managed through Commission Junction.

The highest paying affiliate programs, in terms of percentage, on the other hand, are mostly digital goods. These include ringtones, wallpaper, music, ebook and software affiliate programs.

Highest Percentage Affiliate Programs

• Thumbplay – Thumbplay pays out $8 per lead, or 200% of their monthly subscription rate of $3.99.
• Amazon – The Amazon mp3 program will pay you 10% for digital mp3 sales. When it was first started, the percentage was 20%!