Affiliate marketing is a marketing arrangement where an online retailer pays commission to an external website for traffic or sales generated by it’s referrals. The Top 10 affiliate marketing sites of 2020 are below!
Top 10 Affiliate Marketing sites of 2020
#10. Making Sense of Cents
Niche: Personal and Family Finance
Created and run solely by Michelle Gardner, she writes all her own content for her blog. Her last income report published showed she made 125,000 dollars. That is how she gets number ten on our list of top 10 affiliate marketing sites winning in 2020. She sells her own courses, and does affiliate marketing. Michelle’s top promotions are Bluehost and Bookkeeper Business Launch.Â
Link: Making Sense of Cents
#9. The Wirecutter
Niche: Consumer product reviews
This site was born in 2011, and lands in the top 6,000 sites on the internet because people love the innovative testing that they put gadgets through. They review items, and during the review process, they test the items to their limits. Sometimes they are referred to as the “Mythbusters of gadgets”. Wirecutter is one of the internet’s favorite review affiliate sites. The website does not do any ads or sponsored posts. Recently they were acquired by the New York Times to the tune of 20 million dollars, which is why they land at number 9 on our list of the top 10 affiliate marketing sites this year.Â
Link: The WirecutterÂ
#8. DatingAdvice.com
Niche: Dating advice and dating site reviews
DatingAdvice makes it’s money by referring people to dating sites such as OurTime, Match, and EHarmony. They also make money from sponsored posts and Best-of lists (taking a cut from sales and sign-ups for it’s affiliates).
#7. Just a Girl and Her Blog
Niche: DIY and Organizing
Abby Lawson runs the blog through the Amazon Associates program. She posts her income reports to her blog regularly, her last showing she made about forty thousand dollars, which is why she is on our top 10 affiliate marketing sites crushing it this year. The Marie Kondo method is super popular for those trying to minimize clutter, and Abby has a year of personally doing it, which makes her content hard for others to copy from. It also helps her get people on her mailing list. Abby is big on trying things for content and it works very well. Most of her income comes from Amazon Associates and hosting affiliate marketing through Bluehost.
Link: Just a Girl and Her Blog
 #6. Hopper
Niche: Travel (hotels and air travel)
Hopper has an easy to use interface similar to Skyscanner that is huge with fans. It is a website/app that helps people find the best travel deals on hotels and flights. They make their money when someone buys a flight through them. I have personally used Hopper to book flights and fly, and find it to be an amazing site, which is why it gets number 6 on our top 10 list of affiliate marketing sites.Â
Hopper is available on the App Store for IOS.Â
#5. Website Setup
Niche: Website hosting
It’s an eager market- new people are typing this into Google every day. It covers the most common questions someone new to website hosting may have. They are currently ranked #1 for over a thousand keywords. They use a static homepage. For every Bluehost sign-up through Website Setup, the owner pockets sixty-five dollars.Â
#4. Safewise
Niche: Home security
Wouldn’t you want your home to be as safe as possible? It is hard to know what the best products and services on the market are the best, so let Safewise do the work for you. Safewise provides in depth reviews for consumers. Their home security match tool and homepage is where their bread and butter comes from. They also have reviews for the top 10 best security systems available on the market if you don’t want to use their home security tool match. That is how they landed number 4 on our top 10 affiliate marketing sites of 2020.Â
Link: Safewise
#3. Dog Food Advisor
Niche: Dog Food
This site helps dog owners choose the best food for their furry friend. It isn’t a huge site, but it does get over 500,000 unique visitors every month. The site also ranks for 146K different keywords. It is a community of dog lovers and owners. There are really no ads on this site. Affiliate links are used for ads featured as “Buying Tips”. Serve first, profit later seems to have worked out rather well here.Â
Link: DogFoodAdvisor.com
#2. Skyscanner
Niche: Air travel
This site is one of the best known for finding cheap air travel tickets. They are arguably one of the most well known and most successful “go-to” sites for air travel comparisons out there. They make the majority of their money from referrals to major airlines through their site, AdSense (ad blocks on the side of the page), and an international affiliate program. That is how they landed #2 on our list of the top 10 affiliate marketing sites kicking butt in 2020.Â
Link: Skyscanner
#1. Nerdwallet
Niche: Consumer Finance
People trust them for advice and information on everything from credit cards, mortgages, and insurance to investing. Their interface is very user friendly. They are strictly an affiliate site and make their money when people buy a service from one of their links. They are so popular, they make #1 on our list of top 10 affiliate marketing sites totally winning in 2020!
Link: Nerdwallet
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