Browsing the web I've unearthed another affiliate program that looks to have some significant promise. ClickBooth operates in a similar way to Commission Junction, in that you join ClickBooth and then have access to a whole range of products and services you can effectively market and earn a commission from.

Affiliate programs like ClickBooth are an often overlooked way of making some additional income from your site, which is a shame because you could argue that affiliate marketing is one of the easiest ways to make money online. In case you don't know, affiliate marketing refers sharing of revenue between advertisers and publishers. In other words, as a publisher, you put up a banner ad on your site, and you can get compensated for that. Compensation is based on performance from sales, clicks, registrations or a combination of such.

If you haven't joined up to an affiliate program, here are a couple of good reasons why you should sign up now.

An affiliate program does the hard work for you. Coming up with banner ads and ideas that may or may not work is a pain in the butt. By going through an affiliate program, all that hard work is done for you. You pick the ad you think will have the most success on your site and go with it. Job done.

There's no risk. As a publisher, you don't have a warehouse full of stock sitting there gathering dust if things don't work out. If an advertiser's product isn't selling, that's there problem, not yours. You can basically run a little business selling stuff, without the headaches. If it's not working, move onto something else, and you haven't lost anything.

Make a % on sales. A lot of advertiser's allow you to take a percentage commission from a sale or signup. What does that mean? An advertiser might offer a publisher a 10% commission on every sale generated via a lead from a publishers site/blog. A visitor clicks on a banner ad on your site then goes on to buy $100 worth of gear from the advertiser's site, you, as publisher, would earn $10.

Make $'s from referring other webmasters. Do you have a lot of 'webmaster' traffic? In other words, do a lot of your readers have blogs/websites of their own? ClickBooth currently offer publishers $10 for each approved referral plus a 2% recurring referral fee based on the commissions earned by that person referred. That's a freakin' good deal, and reason enough to give ClickBooth a shot.

Besides my good self, other publishers ClickBooth report to have on their books include MySpace, AOL.com, Lycos, Overture, MSN, Yahoo and Google. My theory, if it's good enough for them, it's good enough for me! Join Clickbooth - Make Money!