The vast majority of star affiliates on the World Wide Web are young. In fact some of them are so young that they are barely the legal age.

Older affiliates will be able to understand affiliate programs a lot more by understanding some of the reasons why young affiliates tend to thrive so much when compared to their older counterparts.

There is a saying that you cannot teach an old dog new tricks. The truth is that the World Wide Web tends to be a struggle for older folk to fully understand. This is sharp contrast to the young who have grown up with computers and the World Wide Web and affiliate programs are therefore much easier to grasp and master.

A vivid illustration is when we look at one of the areas where young affiliates have really thrived. This is the area of blogs. Most of the successful young affiliates today are owners of high traffic blogs. The concept of blogging is new and older folk tend to run into a lot of problems with one of the basic keys to success in blogging. And this is networking. Young affiliates find it natural to reach out to the blogosphere and link to other blogs quickly striking engaging "conversations" over the World Wide Web. This is the secret behind being able to quickly generate traffic and links pointing at a blog.

It is therefore hardly surprising that most of the leading and most successful bloggers on the net are young affiliates.