4. Affiliate marketplaces

Yes, this is the most obvious solution to find top affiliate products to promote. Each reliable affiliate network has its own internal weighting and filtering features that can help you to check out the best performing affiliate programs and to pinpoint the best converting products. Let’s see a few particular cases:

4.1 Avantlink

In AvantLink log in into your affiliate account, and hit the “Merchants” tab in the top menu to get a list with every single merchant that is offered through Avantlink.

As you can see, you can easily check out the commission rate, the conversion rate and the reversal rate. The “Referral Days” column is nothing else, but the cookie life length.
Also, you can search for a different type of merchant or product using the available product category drop-down list:

Or you can actually search for a merchant that sells a specific product using the keyword-based search API: Simply click the “Looking for a merchant who carries a specific product?” link to bring up the search window:

And finally, you can also search for merchants that have different tools and creatives for affiliates:

4.2 CJ Affiliate Conversant

As you can see above, your first option is to perform an advertiser- or keyword-based search using the quick-search function that can be found in the top-left corner of your affiliate account under the “Advertisers” tab.

Or, you can hit down to the category drop-down list to select a particular topic or sub-topic:

Either way, you’ll get a nice, clean search result page where you can check out the commission rate and the EPC:

The green “Network Earnings” bar is an indication of how much the advertiser is paying out to affiliates regularly, so, obviously, the more green the better.

Finally, if you click the “Get Links” icon, you’ll be able to see every single product that is offered by the given merchant and you can even look for particular link types if you want: