There is no affiliate who is not constantly looking out for the top home based affiliate programs that they can find. This is really not surprising because conversion rates and the revenue potential of affiliate programs varies greatly.

So there is really nothing wrong with an affiliate constantly seeking the top home based affiliate program to promote.

There are certain common characteristics that the top home based affiliate programs will tend to have.

The first is that they will tend to have an extraordinarily high conversion rate. There is no point in joining an affiliate program where you drive masses of traffic to the affiliate site but hardly any are converted into actual real sales. The problem is that it is hard to gauge the conversion rate of a program before you have actually tried it out. This is why extensive testing is usually called for.

The other characteristic to look out for in top home based affiliate programs is a structure that pays out affiliate commissions to the second and possibly third tier level of referrals. This means that people you introduce directly under you and those they in turn introduced will earn you affiliate commissions from all sales that they make.

Obviously it is a lot easier to earn money when you are relying on the efforts of many other people as well as yourself. And that is why this characteristic in top home based affiliate programs is very important.