The Best SEO Affiliate Programs For Internet Marketers

The SEO niche is incredibly lucrative.

It sits beneath the 'make money online' & 'internet marketing' umbrella. 

If you're any sort of player in the make money online (MMO) or 'learn SEO' space you're likely paying for at least half a dozen software services- the majority of which probably have affiliate programs that you can cash in on.

For example, I make the bulk of my income from SEO traffic and I'm currently paying for: 

• Ahrefs
• SupaGrowth
• LongTailPro
• SiteGround Hosting
• ConvertKit
• UpWork
• Fiverr

To succeed in organic search, your readers are going to need the best SEO tools. This post is designed to source some of the best-converting SEO affiliate programs to help MMO operators monetize traffic in this ultra-competitive niche.

I Take Some Liberties

I do take some liberty in defining 'SEO'. I include some affiliate programs that aren't strictly SEO-related, but do make sense to promote as an affiliate if you're broadly in the make money online niche.

These include things like autoresponders, ad optimization services, outreach tools, Grammarly's grammar-check software, and even a pair of article spinning programs.

As you can see below, many of these programs offer lifetime commissions- so as long as the customer remains active you're going to get paid.

As an aside, before I profile some of these programs, to get a sense of which affiliate programs the most successful make money online marketers are promoting, you can research their income reports. 

For example, you can check out Matthew Woodward's last income report (they've since been discontinued):

Pat Flynn from Smart Passive Income also keeps an updated tally of his affiliate success- so it's another intelligent way to figure out which internet marketing affiliate programs are converting for the big players.

Keyword Research Affiliate Programs

A robust keyword research and backlink analysis tool, it's commonly considered a 2nd tier option to Ahrefs. You might have wondered why some of your favorite SEO bloggers constantly hawk SEMRush instead of Ahrefs- it's because SEMRush has an affiliate program.

(There is a private affiliate program for Ahrefs- so if you're big enough you might be able to get in if you shoot them an email.)

And there aren't that many of these SEO utility tools on the market- primarily because the resources it requires to essentially index the entire internet, just like Google does, to generate the data is a massively difficult task.

• Commission Rate: 40% Lifetime

The Ahrefs Affiliate Program

My favorite internet marketing tool doesn't have a publicly available affiliate program- but I do know that some of the bigger players in the internet marketing space are generating referral fees from recommending Ahrefs.

Just check out Authority Hacker's tools page- their link to Ahrefs is ThirstyAffiliate tracking link. 

As an aside- this is more than just a keyword research tool. It monitors backlinks, does site audits, researches top-performing content, but I thought I'd lump it into this bucket for convenience's sake.

They do have a sign-up page to get notified if and when they resume their affiliate program. My recommendation- if you have decent traffic to your site and a sizable email list, just shoot them an email and ask them if you can become an affiliate partner.

• Commission Rate: N/A

The KW Finder Affiliate Program

KW Finder is another robust SEO software tool. It does keyword research, SERP analysis, rank tracking, and backlink analysis. I haven't used it, so I can't speak to it personally- but it's routinely recommended by AuthorityHacker, and they're a reputable resource of SEO software reviews.

Like I've mentioned- I primarily use Ahrefs, LongTailPro and some free, niche keyword research tools, so I can't say one way or another how effective it is.

But if you're interested in promoting an SEO keyword research tool as an affiliate- this program is definitely a modern option.

• Commission Rate: 30% Lifetime

One of the old world staples of SEO research, I'm a paying user of LongTailPro. In the beginning of my internet marketing journey I spent countless nights pouring over their desktop application, searching out the perfect Exact Match Domain for my micro-affiliate site.

That said, it's still a good tool and does complement Ahrefs. Plus they've recently added some 'cloud' services- you can do keyword research in the cloud as well as keyword tracking.

This is a perfectly legitimate SEO tool to promote- though many SEOs have migrated to using Ahrefs almost exclusively because of it's ability to generate the keywords sites, or their individual pages, rank for, which can provide more actionable information than LongTailPro's keyword data.

• Commission Rate: 30% Lifetime

Hosting Affiliate Programs

Hosting has to be considered within the SEO niche- you can't 'do SEO' unless you have a website. So you need to pay for hosting.

Unless you're trying to do parasite SEO with a Weebly, subdomain- but I digress. I won't go into all the possible hosting affiliate programs- but there are a lot of them.

Bluehost is probably the most notorious web host- it's combination of poor customer experience (I'm a former customer) and lucrative commission payouts have made for a somewhat bizarre web presence.

Everyone is promoting them, but at the same time, any honest internet marketer knows all the pitfalls of actually having to use them, particularly for shared hosting.

That said, some of the big internet marketing gurus like Pat Flynn (and I'm a huge fan of his) have made huge amounts of money promoting Bluehost.

Below are some hosting affiliate programs you can join with their payouts:

Plugins

The SEOPressor Affiliate Program

This SEO plugin is a long-time staple for internet marketing affiliates. It sits in the "E-business & E-marketing : SEM & SEO" category of ClickBank.

According to their website, the SEOPressor plugin collects important SEO information about your website and displays it in a dedicated dashboard.

The purpose is to help WordPress users acquire crucial SEO insights into their SEO health. I've never used SEOPressor- I've gotten by with Yoast, so far. But at the time of this writing it has a Gravity of 7, so it's definitely generating some sales. 

• Commission Rate: 50% per sale

This WordPress caching plugin promises to speed up your site- an important SEO ranking factor. They promise that their plugin will "Make WordPress Load Fast in a Few Clicks". It's available within ShareASale- and as of this writing, the average commission is $11.18. Their payout fees are: 

• Single plan sells for $39 – you earn $7.80
• Plus plan sells for $99 – you earn $19.80
• Infinite plan sells for $199 – you earn $39.80

Affilorama is an affiliate marketing training portal- as part of it there are some SEO courses.

Obviously if you're doing SEO you're going to need an understanding of how to monetize with affiliate marketing. So it's definitely within the realm of SEO. When I last took a look at the course material, it looked somewhat dated, but it's an information product of long-standing within ClickBank. 

As of this writing, its ClickBank Gravity is sitting above 22- which is nothing to sneeze at. 

One of the benefits of ClickBank products is that they're super-easy to promote- as opposed to other information products outside of ClickBank that aren't evergreen, or have zero reporting history.

• Commission Rate: 50% per sale

Udemy has a bunch of SEO courses you can promote. I'm an active affiliate for Udemy and I've found that they're a solid money maker.

I signed up for their affiliate program through Rakuten LinkShare. As you can see, they site has a lot of traction: this particular course "SEO 2018: Complete SEO Training + SEO for WordPress Websites" has over 2,000 ratings.

It's sort of like the Amazon of e-courses. Very good with conversion, lots of selection, and tons of user reviews for social proof. 

• Commission Rate: Baseline Commission is 20%

Another SEO course you can promote is Chris Lee's RankXL Niche Site Course. It's designed to help buyers build "high-traffic, high-income" sites by deploying effective SEO strategies.

I've heard good things about Lee's products from within the AuthorityHacker community- so this is something I'd be comfortable promoting.

Though, if I were to signup as an affiliate, I'd make sure to understand course structure and content to ensure its up-to-date and a good fit for the NicheFacts audience.  

Ezoic is another solution that's not exactly SEO- but what it does is potentially invaluable for anyone who monetizes their web traffic with display ads.

Ezoic, in a nutshell, tests and optimizes your ad placements to improve revenue. They have a bunch of other apps and tools- but the bread and butter is their ad testing methodology and access to ad partners and inventory that the average AdSense & Media.net user just doesn't have.

So, if you're trying to make money online promoting SEO offers, Ezoic is another smart solution you can recommend to help authority site owners maximize the earning potential of their SEO traffic.3% of a publisher’s ‘Ezoic Earnings’ for the lifetime that they use the Ezoic system

• Commission Rate: 3% of a publisher’s ‘Ezoic Earnings’ for the lifetime that they use the Ezoic system

Services

This is an interesting SEO affiliate opportunity. What RankPay does is pretty unique- it bills itself as a Performance-Based SEO Service. What that means, if the SEO services they provide don't improve your rankings, you don't pay for it. 

• Commission Rate: 10%-20% Lifetime

BrightLocal is a suite of local SEO tools. Their promise is to make local SEO simple. It offers a variety of local SEO services including the ability to: Track Search Rankings, Audit Citations & NAP, Audit Google My Business, Clean up & Build Citations, Monitor Online Reviews.

• Commission Rate: 20% Lifetime

Fiverr does have an affiliate program. Marketed as a business services marketplace, many SEOs laugh off Fiverr SEO services with good reason, but there are some legitimate sellers on there that do offer some valuable SEO services.

And, to be fair, a lot of the bad Fiverr SEO services are backlink-related. You really want to be careful purchasing backlinks from Fiverr, but outside of that internet marketing service category there are a bunch of other services you can promote if you're in the make money online niche as an affiliate.

There are local listing optimization services, content creation services, web analytics services, social media marketing services, and on and on. Sign up and scour their different service offerings- this is another interesting alternative if you want to be a make money online affiliate.

The most up to date information I've found regarding how much the Fiverr affiliate program pays is below:

• Commission Rate: Flat-rate CPA commission for every first-time buyer

Autoresponders

Another old-world-marketing staple, AWeber is one of the most historically popular autoresponder services.

It offers 30% recurring commissions and has been a staple of internet marketing income reports for decades, it feels like. I used to use them before switching to ConvertKit- I just happen to like the modern feel of ConvertKit more. 

• Commission Rate: 30% Lifetime

The ConvertKit Affiliate Program

I'm currently using ConvertKit- it's a modern, simple autoresponder that also features a clean, minimalist design. It makes writing emails pretty simple- plus it comes with some visual automation tools so you can sketch out complex email sequences.

• Commission Rate: 30% Lifetime

The ActiveCampaign Affiliate Program

ActiveCampaign is a more robust email marketing automation solution than either AWeber or ConvertKit- so keep that in mind if you're considering promoting it.

For me, ConvertKit has been a more cost-effective, simple solution- because I'm not dealing with a huge list that requires a CRM and lots of fancy automation rules.

My advice- know your audience and figure out which autoresponder software make sense to promote given the needs of your readership.

• Commission Rate: 30% Lifetime

I've written about iWriter on NicheFacts before- it's a handy content marketplace if you want fast turnarounds at reasonable rates. To join, just sign up with iWriter and you they automatically provide you an affiliate link to earn 50% on any content purchases customers you refer buy.

• Commission Rate: 50% CPA

The HireWriter affiliate program is another content marketplace you can promote. Personally, I haven't used it- I primarily use a combination of UpWork and iWriter, so it's up to you to evaluate whether this is a good option to recommend to your readership. According to their website, their primary selling point is supplying the lowest-price/highest-quality content.

• Commission Rate: $5 for each client you refer that makes a deposit plus 50% of the future net profits.

Again, not strictly an SEO tool, but Grammarly is really useful if you're 'doing SEO' and publishing content online. I have a bunch of different content writers- I make sure that all of them spot-check their content submissions using a free Grammarly account to fix grammatical, spelling and idiomatic errors.

It helps to ensure higher-quality blog posts. Plus, the Chrome browser extension highlights spelling, punctuation and grammatical errors within WordPress- that means you catch a lot of errors before you click Publish.

Google wants to see high-quality content- so if you plan to succeed with SEO, Grammarly makes it easy to proof your content before and even after publication. 

• Commission Rate: Free registration = $0.20; Premium plan purchase = $20

Again, this isn't purely an SEO tool, but it is a valuable tool for the gray hat SEO. If you aren't familiar with spinning software, these tools enable you to take an article and either manually or automatically swap words with their synonyms. This creates 'unique' content.

Spinning software has traditionally been considered a black or gray hat SEO tool- but if you're a white-hat webmaster, it still has some good applications. For example, I don't endorse taking other people's content, automatically creating 100 gibberish versions of it, and spam-publishing it online.

But if you need to touch up a chunk of text like a recipe or an eCommerce description that everyone has already republished countless times- this is a good way to make it unique and avoid duplicate content issues.

• Commission Rate: 50% Lifetime

The WordAi Affiliate Program

WordAi is another, more expensive spinning software. I've used it on a trial basis and wrote up a comparison between it and TheBestSpinner.

According to their affiliate promotional materials, WordAi is regarded as the most technically advanced spinner ever developed, employing sophisticated artificial intelligence to comprehend the contextual meaning behind each word and phrase to provide you with wholly readable and unique content in only a single click!

The affiliate program enables you to promote WordAi and generate lifetime commissions. They pay 20% lifetime recurring commissions, which means you're making as much as $10/mo for every client you refer for as long as the user keeps using the software. So you can make $120/yr per individual you refer.

• Commission Rate: 20% Lifetime

Outreach is an essential part of SEO because, obviously, backlinks and general site publicity are key to powerful SEO rankings.

According to their website, Ninja Outreach provides users Your single tool for Influencer Outreach. It's a web-based app that will make it easy to build successful influencer outreach campaigns for yourself or your clients.

The Ninja Outreach affiliate program includes the outreach software and also their Ninja Academy, which is billed as a inbound marketing crash course.

• Commission Rate: 50% Lifetime

The Big Guest Posting Affiliate Program

Big Guest Posting provides "over 50,000 guest posting websites to choose from". If you've ever run an outreach campaign, whether you're doing a skyscraper or broken link strategy, finding niche-relevant websites to contact can be challenging.

Big Guest Posting provides a huge list of sites that accept guest posts- plus it enables you to filter the list down by keyword, domain authority and social following. This is a new outreach affiliate program- the developer is responsible for the SupaGrowth tool set that I also recommend. 

So if you run a make-money-online blog, and you're looking for an interesting, niche outreach affiliate program to promote, this is a pretty unique option.

This category is for SEO desktop and cloud-based software that provides keyword research, rank tracking, back-link analysis, marketing reports, and general site audit tools.

Ahrefs and SEMRush both can sit within this bucket- but I've left them in the Keyword Research section for now. 

SEO Powersuite is, indeed, a 'suite' of desktop SEO solutions. It's a beast with lots of different solutions. Their affiliate program includes promotional access to their Rank Tracker, WebSite Auditor, SEO SpyGlass, and LinkAssistant.

It's sort of like a desktop version of Ahrefs- but to the best of my knoweldge (I only own their WebSite Auditor tool) it doesn't show you the Organic Keywords a site ranks for, like Ahrefs does. But besides missing that feature- it has a ton of different tools and features.

For example, the WebSite Auditor, which I got a lifetime deal for from AppSumo, will audit an entire site, show all the URLs, suggest technical SEO improvements, give word counts of content, and even do content audits. I used it to vet a website I recently purchased and it was invaluable for that purpose. You can signup for this technical SEO affiliate program within ShareASale. 

• Commission Rate: 33% (capped at $230 per sale)

The Raven Tools Affiliate Program

I haven't heard much from Raven Tools- I rarely see them get recommended by the cutting edge SEOs I follow. I did use when I was working at a startup in 2014, but don't remember much about it.

According to their affiliate page, Raven Tools is used to effectively manage and automate SEO/Social/PPC/Email marketing reports- essentially a centralized dashboard for digital marketers.

You can also provide white label marketing reports- handy if you'd like to sell digital marketing audits to your readership.

• Commission Rate: 10% Lifetime

Web CEO is another SEO tool suite option to promote as an internet marketing affiliate publisher. It offers a range of services, including: keyword research, internal links optimization, technical audit, seo analysis, backlink quality checks, competitor backlink spy, content submission, social analytics, rank tracking, web analytics, and competitor metrics. 

• Commission Rate: $81 CPA

There you have it- a list of some of the best SEO & internet marketing affiliate networks and programs you can join. I'll be keeping this list updated and adding new programs as I see fit.