When deciding on an affiliate product to promote, you just can't go wrong with a web hosting affiliate program. More and more people are building web sites with every passing day, and there is one thing they all need - web hosting. Of course, many will opt for the free options, but they learn their lessons soon enough - and every time that happens, it means a new web hosting company in the world.

Not only that, but you would be surprised at how many people are unhappy with their current hosting. It was not very long ago that I was doing sales for a hosting company, and 90% of my customers were people who were unhappy with their existing service. I didn't seek these people out, but they came nonetheless.

Not only that, but the recurring nature of web hosting makes it very profitable. Therefore, hosting companies can offer respectable payouts for new customers. If you don't believe me, take a look at what the top web hosting companies are paying for Adsense terms. It's astronomical!

The trick is to find a good web hosting affiliate program. There are a few ways you can go about it:

1. Check with your own hosting company. Ask your sales rep if they offer an affiliate program of any sort. If you don’t yet have hosting, then consider signing up for some affiliate programs first, as some companies will let you sign up under your own affiliate account, thereby giving you some of your money back. The Planet is an example of a company that allows this.
2. Adwords. Search Google for hosting-related terms and see what comes up in the Adwords on the right. As these companies are purchasing traffic, there's a good chance they may also run independent affiliate programs.
3. Affiliate Networks. Many web hosting affiliate programs run through large affiliate networks, such as ShareaSale.com and CJ.com. All you have to do is sign up for the affiliate network, search for "web hosting" or something similar, and parse through the results.
4. Find reseller programs. This is a different route altogether, but instead of signing up for an affiliate program, you might want to sign up for a reseller hosting account. Many affiliate programs offer reseller programs, in which you would create the front end and sales page, and the automation takes most of it from there.

If you're going to market your pages using SEO tactics, I do highly recommend finding some good long tail keyword combos to go after - promoting web hosting is profitable when you have the traffic, but it’s also very highly competitive. Without some good long tail keywords, you'll have a very hard time ever breaking through to the first page of Google.