Dog Care and Pet Affiliate Programs & Other Affiliates

Before sharing our favorite dog care and pet affiliate programs, it is important to remember that you must ALWAYS have the best interests of your customers and patrons in mind when choosing an affiliate.

Organic Pet Digest only moves forward with an affiliate if the answer to ALL of the following questions is an "absolute yes"...

1. Do they offer products that promote the overall health of dogs?
2. When possible and realistic, do they offer products that are organic and natural?
3. Do they promote ethical and environmentally conscious manufacturers?
4. Are their products of high quality and do they receive favorable reviews from actual customers?
5. Is their site user-friendly, easy to navigate and secure for customers?
6. Are their costs competitive?

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As a secondary consideration, the programs should offer competitive commission levels and robust reporting capabilities.

Here are the dog care and pet affiliate programs along with other well-rounded programs that we offer, participate in and recommend. Click the link to jump down to our review or just scroll down the page to review them all...

• PetAlive from Native Remedies
• ExitJunction
• Chitika
• ClickBank
• ShareASale

PetAlive from Native Remedies

PetAlive believes that the best approach to treatment may be a combination of traditional medicine, herbal/homeopathic remedies, and always due attention to lifestyle - healthy eating, sleeping and exercise habits.

Treatment for typical conditions can often be safer and more effective with the use of herbal and homeopathic treatments, avoiding the often debilitating effects of pharmaceutical medications.

PetAlive from Native Remedies provides a range of herbal, homeopathic and nutraceutical remedies to help with a variety of ailments commonly experienced by pets.

They also have a very competitive pet affiliate program:

• 25% commission on each direct sale
• Lifetime commissions (as long as a customer found Pet Alive through your site, you will receive 25% commission on ALL of their future purchases)
• Receive full credit for phone sales
• Robust reporting and a complete list of professional banners and links

Click here to learn more about and join the PetAlive Pet Affiliate Program.

Exit Junction

ExitJunction is the only advertising program we have found that allows you to monetize 100% of your traffic without annoying your visitors while they are on your site.

Here's how ExitJunction works...

1. Only applies when visitors find your site through a search engine
2. When a visitor clicks through to your site from a search engine, ExitJunction is "activated"
3. When the visitor leaves your site (i.e. hits the "Back" button), they are presented with an ExitJunction "exit" page with a list of related sponsored links (similar in format to Google Search results)
4. If the visitor clicks a sponsored link on ExitJunction's "exit" page, you get paid. If they click the back button again, they'll go back to their initial search engine results

Currently, eCPM is VERY low, but we expect it to increase as ExitJunction refines their technology and brings on more advertisers.

Click here to learn more.

Chitika

Don't let the funny name fool you. Next to Adsense, Chitika has one of the best 'clickable link' affiliate programs out there. And best of all, it can be included on the same page as Adsense Ads.

Here's how Chitika works:

• Paste your Chitika code anywhere on your site.  
• When a visitor arrives at your page from a search engine, where you placed the code they will see an advertisement that is targeted to their keyword search.  The ads that are displayed are completely customizable and are very professional in appearance.
• The ads allow the visitor to scroll through without leaving your page.
• Just like Adsense, when a visitor clicks on a link you get paid.
• You have the option to turn off the ads if a visitor is coming from anywhere other than a search engine (this is how we do it).  This may sound strange at first, but for our returning visitors we don't like to have our pages too cluttered with ads.

Chitika's tracking and reporting tools are also very effective, and they have good tips on ad placement and strategies to maximize income.  

Click here to learn more about Chitika's program.

ClickBank

ClickBank is probably the best paying "Affiliate Aggregator" that we have found. Essentially, affiliate aggregators bring together affiliates and provides you with a "one stop shop" to find affiliates to promote and track their sales. They also take care of collecting and paying all earned commissions.

ClickBank's products are entirely digital in nature, but don't let that discourage you from signing up (for free). There are many possibilities in this arena that you may not have thought of, including ebooks, audiobooks and online videos.

To search their vendors, click the "Marketplace" link at the very top of the page, then refine your search by category (i.e. "Home & Family"), subcategory (i.e. "Pets") keyword and/or product type.

Check 'em out.

ShareASale

ShareASale is another good aggregator.  

Once you sign up (also free, by the way), the steps to find products to recommend are as follows:

1. Click on ShareASale's "View and Search Merchant List" link
2. Enter the keyword of a product category (for example, "Dog Bowl" or "Flea") and their system will search their entire vendor database to find which vendors sell products fitting your description.
3. The vendor list that comes up will include all the information you need to decide if you want to join the program, including:
• Link to the vendor's web site
• Commission Level
• Statistics
• Program Description
• "Creatives" (links and banners available)
4. Click the "Join Program" links for the affiliate programs of your choice

That's it.  

From there, you can search products for programs you belong to.   ShareASales' tools make it possible to both find specific products and get their code AND to create an entire page if you have an online store.

While literally thousands of affiliates belong to ShareASale, keep in mind that there are many affiliate programs out there (Native Remedies, for example) that don't belong.  The other downside is their user interface and reporting, which are a little clunky and sometimes confusing to navigate.

Click here to learn more about ShareASale.