TopRanked.io Weekly Affiliate Digest: What’s Hot in Affiliate Marketing [Health Trader Affiliates Review]

Quick Disclosure: We’re about to tell you how Health Trader Affiliates are pretty great. And we really mean it. Just know that if you click on a Health Trader Affiliates link, we may earn a small commission. Your choice.

This week, we’re gonna talk about honey.

Not honey with a capital “H”.

Nope. Instead, we’re gonna talk about honey with a capital Bee.

Why?

Because there’s a bunch of affiliate dollars to make.

TopRanked.io Affiliate Partner Program of the Week — HealthTrader Affiliates

Alright. First things first.

If you’re going to monetize this honey opportunity, then you’re going to need a good affiliate program that fits the bill.

And here, you’ll be hard pressed to find much better than Health Trader Affiliates.

And fair warning — at first you’re probably going to wonder what Health Trader Affiliates has to do with honey.

But stick around for the news section and all will be revealed.

Until then, however, here’s why you’ll love Health Trader Affiliates.

Health Trader Affiliates — The Product

Let’s keep this short.

Health Trader Affiliates is a giant health and wellness affiliate program that takes a bunch of great products, and brings them together under the same roof.

And we’re not just talking about 15 different protein supplements, 10 pre workout blends, etc., etc.

Health Trader Affiliates has real variety.

Basically, if it can be supplemented Health Trader Affiliates has it.

And if it can’t be supplemented, Health Trader Affiliates probably have it, too.

And by that, I mean, Health Trader Affiliates also has pharmacy programs and doctor programs (as in, book a doctor online).

But this week, you can ignore the doctor/pharmacy part — the real interesting products under the Health Trader Affiliates roof are the products with names like Slendarol, Blood Sugar Support, and a bunch of others.

Why?

Well, we’ll get to that in the news section.

For now, you only need to remember this one thing — if it’s health and wellness related, Health Trader Affiliates probably has a product you can sell.

Now let’s get to the Health Trader Affiliates commissions.

Health Trader Affiliates — The Commissions

Let’s start with the bad news. Health Trader Affiliates commissions start at 13%.

Sounds kinda low for health and wellness, right?

Right.

But there’s one detail here that’s kinda important. Health Trader Affiliates is only paying those “low” commission rates on things like pharmacy and medical consultation sales.

If you look at the supplements under the Health Trader Affiliates roof, things suddenly look much better.

In fact, there’s a bunch of products within the Health Trader Affiliates program that pay out at 50%.

And, for the grand majority of the products Health Trader Affiliates has to offer, commission rates sit at 40%.

And there’s no catch here. Health Trader Affiliates doesn’t have “levels” you need to climb to unlock these rates.

All you need to do is sign up with Health Trader Affiliates today, and you unlock access to those commissions immediately.

Health Trader Affiliates — Next Steps

If you like what you see but want a few more details, then head on over to TopRanked.io for our in-depth Health Trader Affiliates review.
Or, if you know a good thing when you see it, head here to sign up with Health Trader Affiliates today.

Affiliate News Takeaways — America Ain’t Got No Honey Baby Now

If you’re a keen follower of the National Honey Board like I am, then you probably saw this press release last year.

To catch the more normal readers up, that press release was basically about honey consumption hitting an all time high in the USA, along with a bunch of honey industry propaganda about the benefits of honey and whatnot.

Guess that means my Cheerios obsession is actually good for me…

Anyway, fast forward to today, and the inevitable has happened — the US is facing a honey shortage.

And that means, there’s a big affiliate opportunity here.

So this week, we’re going to look at how to hijack all the attention honey’s getting (and is going to get once “honey shortage” kicks in) and using that attention to sell some affiliate product.

So let’s start with the basics.

What’s driving the trend?

Well, if you believe the press, “The surge in honey demand is being driven in part by wellness influencers seeking alternatives to artificial sweeteners, with honey deemed a “superfood.”

Read that line again.

Wellness influencers are thinking honey is an alternative to artificial sweeteners.

Burn that line into your brain — we’ll be coming back to it later.

Sneak peak — you can almost guarantee that if it’s coming from wellness influencers, it’s probably not quite up to scientific standards…

But before we get to the whole “alternative to artificial sweeteners” thing, let’s go over a couple of facts about honey that will help you hijack attention.

So, let’s start with the big one.

You can’t really trust anything with the word honey on it.

And that includes honey honey — as in, the stuff that’s meant to come from bees.

Did that get your attention?

Good.

You see, here’s the thing — honey is basically just sugar (glucose and fructose, to be precise) and water. Then there’s some trace amounts of minerals and polyphenols (“plant extracts”) that give it tast/color.

But, for the most part, it really is just sugar water… with way more sugar than water.

Now consider this — you have a “high value” product that’s really just sugar and water. (And no, I’m not oversimplifying — honey is really mostly sugar and water. But mostly sugar.)

So, what do you think happens next?

That’s right — people start making counterfeit honey.

And I’m not talking “guy in a trenchcoat selling fake rollies” type counterfeits.

The sort of counterfeiting that’s going on is at a truly industrial scale — the sort of scale where most of the honey sitting on your supermarket shelves might not even be honey. And where it is honey, it might just have been adultered with sugar syrups to “bulk it out”.

Unfortunately, no one really know how big the whole honey fraud thing is. Testing for it is kinda limited, and faking the “profile” of honey is relatively easy (after all, it’s basically just sugar and water along with some minerals and plant extracts).

To give some idea of the difficulty here, in 2021-22, the FDA flagged 10% of honey samples it tested as “violative”.

Then, the next year, the “violative” percentage dropped to 3%.

So fake honey dropped… right?

Must be law enforcement doing its job…

Except, here’s the interesting bit.

The EU also had similarly low levels of suspicious honey in its markets back in the day.

But then, in 2023, they did more sampling with some more up-to-date testing methods on 320 honey samples from 20 different countries.

Their findings — about half of the samples (46%) were “suspicious”.

And here’s where it gets really interesting — these are just samples from a bunch of producers/locations. It says nothing about the “volume” produced by each place those suspicious examples came from.

But consider this — China alone is responsible for about a quarter of global honey production.

China also had the highest number of suspicious samples in that EU study — 66 out of 89 samples tested (74%) were suspicious.

That’s right — 74% of honey samples originating from China we flagged as suspicious.

Guess they have a reputation to uphold…

Of course, counterfeit products from China isn’t really a surprise — it’s more or less par for the course.

But there are plenty more “shocking” numbers once you start looking at other high volume producers.

Take Turkey, for example. It’s the 2nd biggest producer of honey after China.

And, in the EU study, 14 out of 15 (or 93% of) samples were suspicious.

And here I was thinking the only thing turkey was good for was thanks giving…

What makes this all the more “scary” for anyone who actually wants to buy “real” honey (not just doctored sugar syrup) is the fact testing is so ineffective against honey counterfeiters.

In fact, even now, several years on from the EU’s ‘shock’ study, people are still trying to solve the whole “how do we develop tests that catch honey counterfeiting” thing.

The UK government did a write up on this front last year that you can read here if you’re really interested.

Otherwise, that should hopefully be enough to get you started on some sort of “how to get the attention of honey lovers and divert that attention to an alternative product” play.

Now let’s look at another angle.

The whole thing about sugar making you fat.

Last year, the International Food Information Council published a “Focus On Sugars and Sweeteners” report.

And in it, they found that basically:

• Most American consumers want sweetness.
• But most of them (75%) are also trying to cut down on sugar.
• But most also distrust lab-grown alternatives (so-called “artificial sweeteners”)

And this (along with a bunch of other factors which we’ll get to), is one of the big drivers of honey.

Many people seem to think honey is somehow a healthier alternative to sugar.

And, in a way, it is. That is, if your idea of sugar is high-fructose corn syrup or whatever it is Americans are putting in their “iced coffee” and whatnot these days…

But, if you add honey to an otherwise healthy diet, the benefits aren’t quite as big as some would have you believe.

After all, it is basically just sugar and water, so you’re still gonna get fat.

And yeah, I know — sugar ain’t sugar.

And there are certainly some studies to back this up. The best meta-analysis I could find here basically confirms that honey can help lower Hemoglobin A1C.

So, you know, you test a little less diabetic.

But here’s the catch — that same study also found that honey “adversely affect[s] systolic blood pressure, Aspartate transferase, triglycerides, fasting blood glucose, and high-sensitive C-reactive protein.”

So, you know, I guess you win some and you lose some…

And so that really means the only real benefit of honey is the whole “but antioxidants/polyphenols/gut health/prebiotics/etc.” stuff.

But if you look into it, honey isn’t really all that great here.

Berries, cocoa, coffee, tea, spices, vegetables (yes kids, eat your vegetables), oats, beans, lentils, onions, garlic, asparagus, cooled potatoes/rice, underripe bananas, etc., are all better on this front.

So, you know, just eat a regular balanced diet without loading up on high-frutose corn syrup and you’re pretty much getting all the benefits of honey.

Or, if you really wanna load up on all that antioxidant/etc. Stuff…

Well, that’s where the affiliate opportunity kicks in.

Takeaway

Alright, let’s go full circle and return to where we began.

Right now, the US is facing a honey shortage as demand for honey hits record highs largely thanks to wellness influencers pedalling the benefits of honey.

And so now you’ve got your highjack angles.

• If people are using artificial sweeteners because they wanna cutback on sugar because they’re fat, then honey is the wrong answer — a calorie’s a calorie, and honey’s full of ‘em.
• If people are eating honey because “antioxidants” or whatever, honey’s not exactly high in any of this compared to other alternatives. Sure, it’s “better” than sugar — but you can get a bigger hit from other sources.
• While honey consumption has shown some health benefit insofar as Hemoglobin A1C is concerned, it also has a bunch of adverse effects.
• But, even if we grant the health benefits, people can’t even be sure they’re getting them because they don’t even know if the honey they’re buying is really honey.

And using all that, now you’ve got the ammunition you need to divert attention towards alternative products.

The obvious alternatives here are supplements. weight loss supplements. Antioxidant supplements. You name it.

And you know where you can find a bunch of supplements that fit this bill?

That’s right — Health Trader Affiliates.

Closing Thought

Since we’re on the whole “health” topic, here’s something interesting.

A couple of weeks ago, Bryan Johson (you know, they “longevity” guy) posted this.

So why am I reproducing it here?

Well, first, it’s good advice.

But second, notice how everything on that list is simple?

The guy spent millions on all sorts of fancy machines and protocols.

And yet, his biggest pieces of advice basically boil down to a bunch of simple stuff that demands basically nothing from you over and above what a normal healthy lifestyle would.

So maybe there’s something here.

A nice little reminder that the KISS principle is alive and well.

And if you want to put that principle into practice right away, here’s a hot tip.

Ditch the 600 different health and wellness affiliate programs you’re signed up with and replace them with one simple program that lets you manage everything in one place.

And yes, I’m talking about Health Trader Affiliates.

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