If you've surfed internet long enough, you must've found so many merchants offering Affiliate Programs. But tricky thing is to choose solid ones for your niche. This is very important, because your reputation is on stake here! Joining wrong affiliate programs will only hurt your online business.
First of all, it is almost impossible for you to collect adequate informations on those merchant companies. You certainly can't investigate them thoroughly. Hence, you will never be able to predict their successes or failures.
That's why you must not stress on one single merchant only within your niche.
Pick a couple of best quality products to promote. Still, you can do some critical researches to reduce risk.
OK, now let's see how we can pick goods from bads. Here are some factors that influences dependability of an affiliate program. The more of these factors are present in a certain program, more reasons you get to sign up to program.