The reason who many affiliate programs are dominated by young people who own blogs is not too difficult to fathom.

To start with blogs are the awesome new communication and publishing medium that has taken the World Wide Web by storm. Young affiliates have been much quicker to grasp and master blogs and their requirements and rules than older affiliates. Blogs work best in the hands of young affiliates who are able to reach out and network with other bloggers much more easily than older folk. Older people are stuck in the belief that it I not a good idea to be too close to one's competitors, let alone reach out to them.

Yet networking is critical to a blogger being able to pick up links rapidly from blogs covering related or similar topics which are very highly valued by search engines for SEO purposes.

Then there is also the fact that young blog affiliates have quickly embraced amazing new effective online promotional techniques. A good example is the use of promotional articles to market a site and generate loads of traffic heading to it. The problem that many older affiliates have with articles marketing is that it is free and if one is able to write their own articles, it will cost absolutely nothing. Older folk brought up in the firm belief that there is no such thing as a free lunch, find it impossible to come to terms with the fact that a marketing tool can be so effective and yet it costs nothing.

Younger blog affiliates with no fast rules to cling to have greatly benefited from many new online rules that hardly apply offline. This is one of the reasons why young blog affiliates dominate.