I would like to know who the most successful affiliates are and how
much $ they generate in revenue each month/year. I am not interested
in the merchants. I am not interested in companies like cj, referit,
ebay, amazon etc..I am interested in the websites that have the links
on their site that direct traffic to other sites. My hope would be to
get the top couple of hundred, but a minimum of 75 is needed.

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Clarification of Question by joel1357-ga on 10 Aug 2002 19:52 PDT

I added $ 25.00 to the price of the question to help facilitate an answer.

Hi Joel,

This info would be of immense value. One could make a lot of money by
imitating the style and content of the most successful affiliate
websites. Occasionally businesses with affiliate programs mention in
newsletters to their affiliates who their top affiliates are, as an
example of how to be successful - but this is not the norm.

Hi Joel!

I don't think there is a verifiable answer for your question. 
Affiliate sites are very, very careful to keep their numbers to
themselves - and there is nothing to compell them to do otherwise.

--Missy

Joel,

I agree with the others that an answer for the question as stated is
probably unavailable. However, I'm curious about the subject, so I
rounded up a couple interesting sources for you. According to
Affliates4cash.com, the highest paying categories are automotive and
travel, though it looked to me like online casinos were also pretty
strong. American Accommodations Network (travel) trumpets "We have
paid up to $30,000.00 to one person in a month just for driving
traffic to our site."

http://www.affiliates4cash.com/t_links.html

According to ads on Amara and other sites, Omni Casino is the winner
for gambling "Top affiliates are earning $1,000's a month with this
one!"

http://www.acc.am/~armara/cj/betting_gaming.html

According to the latest Shop.org "State of Retailing Online",
currently the fifth in the series, "94 percent of surveyed retailers
rated affiliate marketing as effective".

http://www.internetcapital.com/news/partners/062702.html

When I changed my Google search strategy to "top affiliates earn" I
started getting some impressive individual returns, such as
Ancestory.com, that claimed to pay out over $250,000/month, with top
affiliates earning over $10,000

http://www.ancestry.com/home/partner/commissions.asp

and Weight Loss Pills affiliates programs, which claims "Many top
affiliates earn $40K - $60K per month"

http://www.weight-loss-pills.info/best-affiliate-programs.html

In my best year as an Amazon Associate, I made a little over $1000
with a site that only draw around 1000 unique visitors a day, so it's
possible that people with 100 times or more that traffic and a highly
profitable affiliate linkup could be making serious money.

morris-ga