Frank,
Your best friend in recruiting affiliates will be Google.com. Outreach to affiliates is key and maintaining the relationships is a vital aspect in affiliate management. The tools networks offer are a great thing to have, but you also need people to offer them to.
Besides the tools, you will want to check your site for Leaks, Parasites, as well as anything that can take away an affiliate's commissions or overwrite an affiliate's cookie.
BY making yourself affiliate friendly, you will better recruit them and gain their trust.
Three other recruitment options besides search engines are:
1. Buying adspace on forums like this one.
2. Hiring an OPM firm like ones mentioned here like AMWSO to help recruit and build the relationships
3. Directory listing in program directories
Being active in the community and showing you support it with communication will always be the best and cheapest, so that is the number one method. However, outreach and advertising are also very important with any program.
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