About Affiliate
affiliate programs are common throughout the Internet and offer website owners a means of profiting from their websites. Affiliates generate sales for commercial websites and in return receive a percentage of the value of those sales.
How Does It Work?
When you join the .com Affiliate program, you will be supplied with a range of banners and textual links that you place within your site. When a user clicks on one of your links direct to .com, their activity will be tracked by an independent third party. You will earn a commission based on your commission classification.
Frequently Asked Questions
The Affiliate program allows you to create customer links and banners for your website or Affiliate Advertising Campaigns to capitalize on products. Visitors to your site who click on your Affiliate links and then purchase a product, will generate a 10% commission for you and paid monthly by Paypal（What's Paypal? Please view www.paypal.com).
Visitors to through your affiliate links are tracked using cookies stored in the visitor's browser. The cookie flags the visitor as your referral for 60 days. If the visitor decides not to purchase a product or service on the day they link, you will still get credit for their purchase, if it is made within 60 days.
Commission "checks" (Bank Account or Paypal) are sent once a month, on balances $100.00 and more.
There are no fees associated with the Affiliate program (unless you select payment by Bank Wire), you are able to make as many links as you like, for use on as many websites that like. (You are responsible for any hosting charges, internet access, and domain registration charges that come with creating a website and hosting web pages. Consult your hosting company, internet service provider, and domain registrar for more information.)
There are absolutely no sign-up fees or performance requirements for opening a Affiliate account. There may be a fee for sending Bank Wires if you select that as your payment type, depending on the country your bank operates from.
There is a minimum balance required before you receive a payment from the Affiliate Program. You must have at least $100.00 in commissions before we will issue a payment. If you do not achieve this minimum in any month, the balance forwards to the next month until you have reached that amount, or more.
You are responsible for any fees associated with hosting, internet access or domain registration. These are normal costs associated with having a website, and they are your own responsibility.
Creating Affiliate links is easy! You can generate an affiliate link in less than a minute after signing into your Affiliate account.
There are programs available for publishing your affiliate links in advertising campaigns, and PPC (Pay Per Click) Programs, however placing the affiliate links within your existing content, or using banners on your own website will probably work best for the average website owner/operator.
If your website is new, or if your website does not have significant traffic, then you may want to look into advertising or marketing. Keep in mind that your commissions are paid based on sales from the links directed to , not simply the visitor clicking on the link or ads.
We recommend placing focus on Search Engine Optimization and relevant content within your existing site. Create value-added pages that appeal to your audience, with affiliate links embedded in the content. Natural appearing, or contextual links, tends to have a much higher click through rate, than glitzy banner ads.
provides customer and technical support to all of its customers regardless of how the sale was generated. Once the customer has left your site through the affiliate link and came to , all you have to do is wait for them to make a purchase. will handle the account creation, billing and processing, and technical or customer support.
As a Affiliate, you will earn 10% of each sale created through your affiliate links. A purchase of $100.00 in products will add $10.00 to your Affiliate Balance.
There is no limit to the number of visitors that you can send, and there is no limit to the amount of commissions you may earn.
Visitors arriving at through your affiliate links are tracked with a 60-day cookie, stored in the visitors' browser. The prospective customer can make their first purchase from any time during that 60-day window and you will receive the 10% commission for that sale.
Every Affiliate receives access to a Affiliate administration control panel. Within the control panel you can view your affiliate link stats, which includes: aggregate and by-channel impressions, aggregate and by-channel number of clicks on links, aggregate and by-channel number of sales generated from links, and total earnings from links (aggregate and by-channel data).
Every Affiliate receives access to a Affiliate administration control panel. Within the control panel you can view your affiliate link stats, which includes: number of clicks on links, number of sales generated from links, and total earnings from links.
In addition to this, you also have a segment of statistics displaying the exact products purchased from your directed traffic, and the amount of the commission generated. The sum total of all the purchases' commissions will equal the amount of your commission payment. The data you see regarding your traffic and sales is the same data we use to pay your commissions.
There are two methods for earning the commissions, by sales and by traffic. If you recommend the users by both of the methods, then you will be paid for the one whose earnings is the higher within the payment duration, and the lower one will be abandoned and recalculated.
As a Affiliate you have the option of being paid by Bank Wire, Western Union and PayPal. Once you have generated a minimum of $100.00 in commissions you are eligible for a payment for the balance of your affiliate account.
Payments made by Bank Wire take approximately three days to process and may include a banking fee, depending on your bank and the country it operates from.
Paypal payments are transferred to the owner of the Affiliate account on record when signing up. It's available for the owner to check in minutes, safe and fast!
Affiliate payments are made once a month. Once your affiliate accounts reach a balance of at least $100.00, we’ll send you a payment at the beginning of the month after next. The accounts should wait for a month for inspection upon sales and leads in case returns, invalid credit cards, or even fraud take place. Accounts that have not met the minimum balance will be carried forward to the next month, until the minimum amount has been achieved.
For example, if your total unpaid earnings reached $100 during January, we would send you a payment at the beginning of March.
If your total unpaid earnings haven’t yet reached $100, they’ll roll over to the next month and accrue until they meet the $100 threshold. Payment is disbursed within approximately 15 days of the beginning of the month.
Note: If returns or malicious purchase take place, corresponding sales commission will be deducted from your earnings.
For example, your sales of January is $2300, you will get a payout of $230 at the beginning of March; but if an order of $100 is found returned before the payout date, your sales of January will be $2200, correspondingly your earnings of January will be $220.
Signing up for the Affiliate Program is easy and free! Simply go to mailto:sales@.com and enter your information into the registration form.
You can now create affiliate links immediately and begin making money with the Affiliate Program.
Creating links from the Affiliate control panel is easy and it takes seconds to do. You will need to be logged into your Affiliate control panel to create links. Follow these steps:
Log into your Affiliate control panel
Click the Get Links link in the top navigation.
Select your Ad Type (1.text link 2.banner link 3.email link)
Your HTML link code is generated in the Link Code text area
Copy and paste this HTML code into your web page using an HTML editor
Upload your page to your server and view!
There are different Ad/link types you can select in the Advertisement Links form. With the exception of the Raw Link, all of these ads are tracked for impressions, clicks, and sales.
Text Link
A Text Link is simply the key word of the linked item on the linked page. If you are linking to the Cisco 640-802 page on , your Text Link will display as "Cisco 640-802". This format is perfect for contextual advertising.
Banner 200x200
A small branded graphical banner 200 pixels wide and 200 pixels tall. This banner can be used anywhere in a website of wrapped by content. This size also works particularly well in blogs.
Banner 468x60
The typical 468x60 banner advertisement found at the tops and bottoms of websites and web pages all around the world. This advertisement works well in marketing campaigns and web rings. It also performs well with web templates designed with banners in mind.
Raw Link
The Raw Link format provides no Impressions tracking. It is simply the URL of your e Affiliate link.
You can easily use the Raw Links to create HTML code in making custom ads or banners for your site, or for submitting to other Affiliate Marketing campaigns. Raw links will still track clicks and sales; however the code for impressions has been stripped to make it easy to use for your custom needs.
No. There are many ways to create revenue from affiliate marketing links, including: PPC ads, contextual linking, and joining banner share programs. However the easiest way to use your Affiliate account will be with your own site, and embedding links or banners within your own pages that you can control.
There are no requirements for joining the Affiliate program. You can create a revenue stream using your own website, or take advantage of affiliate marketing platforms and generate an income without owning a site at all.
Yes. Affiliate Program participants are paid based on the sales generated from the links that they use. Affiliates are not rewarded for high click counts, which removes most fraud from this system.
You can use Affiliate links any way you choose. Create your own banner ads, join PPC marketing campaigns, or embed links in article content - you choose how to use your links.
There are no restrictions to the use of your affiliate links on your own site, or any other that is enforced by . Check with the advertising company that you intend to use your Affiliate links with, to ensure that they are compliant with their rules and practices.
Yes. does reward referrals of new affiliates. If you would like to refer an affiliate to us, please email sales(at).com to discuss your account and the new affiliate you would like to have join.
Please contact Affiliate Support for any and all questions you may have. You may find answers to your questions within this FAQ; however we welcome all questions and comments.
