Which affiliate program software?

There are some advantages of having the software hosted on your own site.

Search engines place a high relevance on link popularity. Your affiliates will link to your site and not a third party solution such as www.linkshare.com/+your-affiliate-id.htm. Also You don't pay any fees to the hosted affiliate service. Find out more here about affiliate software scripts which you can host on your own server.

Hosted affiliate software soltutions are the alternative.

Important factors to consider however with a hosted affiliate service are:

• How relevant is their affiliate base to your product or service?
• Is the affiliate service going to be around as long as your business?
• Are their affiliates going to promote your program above the hundreds of other affiliate programs they are offered?

It may be better to have your own software and build a slower but long-term more solid affiliate base.

Find out more about hosted affiliate software here.