How do the top affiliate programs achieve the amount of success they have realized? The answer is two folds, and first answer is the people who have developed the affiliate program and the second answer is the affiliates that are doing the promoting. Without one you can not have the other. A high quality product will attract the best in the business to do the promoting and some of those affiliates have networks that literally reach thousands and some even hundreds of thousands.

Developing a top affiliate program takes time and in some cases years of trial and error to achieve the success of one best seller system. The people behind the development have spent years developing and promoting products then by listening to their customers they make changes as needed.

Then there is also the ever changing internet and the technology that people have access to. It is now possible to have complete programs wrote with software for doing the various aspects of affiliate marketing. The programs in some cases are so easy to navigate and use that a person that has never tried doing business online can be up and running within a couple hours.

How do you find the top affiliate programs and how do you know what one is really the best? Well that answer is really a matter of opinion and that depends on who is using the program and what they are using the program for. To find an affiliate marketing program you will need to visit the affiliate marketplaces like clickbank.com or paydotcom.com. On websites like those you will be able to search the markets to find the top performing programs being sold.

Now to know if it can live up to the claim of being one of the top affiliate programs you are going to have to try the program out. There is no better way to know if the program lives up to its sales page than to buy it and try it yourself. Besides how can you promote something if you have never tried it and do not believe in yourself?

Now I know you might just be starting out and that is fine too. Do some research on the creator of the product, and read reviews then look for other programs they have created or released to the marketplace. After doing this do you think they are reputable and do you feel compelled to buy their latest achievement? Get started promoting the product, but as soon as you can buy a copy for yourself so you can dive and do a review yourself.

As mentioned earlier the other way to determine if it is truly one of the top affiliate programs online you will need to look at the people who are promoting the product. Do a search on your favorite search engine and see whose websites come up promoting the product. Do the names sound familiar to you? Do the websites look professional and well managed? If you find that some of the bigger names in the industry are promoting the program it is probably going to be a pretty good one to promote.