"Please suggest an effective affiliate link program," is a frequent request you will see from affiliates who are a little ahead of the rest of the pack.

I say that these affiliates are ahead because for them to make such a request, they will have already realized one key and extremely important requirement for success in most affiliate programs.

And that is the simple fact that whatever affiliate program you are talking about, and whatever anybody would like to suggest, it will never work without link generated traffic. Links are the quickest and most efficient way to gain traffic both in the short term, medium term and long term. Actually there is no other more effective traffic generation tool than links. In the short-term links will get you affiliate blog traffic as you steadily climb up the search engine ranks. In the medium term lots of traffic will start coming your way from search engines because the links will have taken you quite high up the search engine ranks. In the long term you will be generating a colossal amount of traffic from your top position in search engines occasioned by your vast amount of accumulated links.

There are a number of affiliate link programs that I can suggest. Some will cost you while others are free and will just require lots of hard work from you. Either way, virtually all the top high-earning affiliates anybody can suggest are all involved with some affiliate link program.