Affiliate programs that offer get rich quick schemes, make money American dollar surprise in a short time without work, are examples of online scams that you should know. Do not ever sign up to be such an affiliate program, because you mean the other way to make money you can lose money.

How to find affiliate programs, namely type the word "affiliate programs" in the address bar search engine like Google. On the resulting page, you will find many affiliate programs offered by the affiliate merchants. Affiliate merchant is the advertiser in an affiliate marketing relationship. Learn your stuck carefully to avoid online fraud.

The next step is, check whether the affiliate merchant you are interested in has been registered with the Better Business Bureau (BBB). BBB will publish credible reports that essentially provides useful information such as ratings, business contacts and profile owners, history complaints and other.

Once you are sure of the legitimacy of the affiliate merchant so you make sure that you further understand the mechanism of the affiliate program.

One thing you should understand is to market and sell products from affiliate merchants and the results you will earn extra money in the form of commissions. This is the substance of an affiliate program. This means that you should never hope that you will receive money if you do not successfully sell the affiliate merchant's product. The key word is you need to successfully sell the affiliate merchant's product through your own or through people you refer.

Another consideration you should take note of when you'll decide to join the affiliate program are:

• Does the merchant's product offers a lot of people looking for and with a realistic price for consumers?

• Whether the affiliate merchant provides a secure payment facility from online fraud?

• Notice the BBB rating for affiliate merchants, the best rating is A +. A+ grade represents BBB's degree of confidence that the business is operating in a trustworthy manner and will make a good faith effort to resolve any customer concerns filled with BBB.

• See the history of complaints and resolution.

• Consider whether the available promotional materials such as banners, gateway, training materials that provide insight for you to market and sell the product. These are very help you successfully run this business.

Note also whether the available methods for the promotion and duplication.