Become Affiliate and Sell SEO, Website and Webmaster Tools
Guidelines and Rules for Affiliates
Affiliation:
- Both parties can at any time termniate affiliation status for whatever reason.
- Affiliates are allowed to sell products from other companies.
- We are allowed to use other affiliates.
What
not to do:
- Mention the exact complete product name in the ad copy in online advertisement systems such as Google AdWords, Yahoo/Overture etc.
- Spam people in newsgroups, message boards, blogs, chatrooms, guestbooks etc.
- Deceive people, e.g. by promoting our products as your own.
Payout percentage:
Affiliate commission percentage varies depending on product
and amount of sales you generate, around
30%
is what most start out with. However, if you believe you can make many sales
(e.g. through a well known blog, newsletter and similar) your start
percentage can be higher.
Contact us if you have any questions!
We might be able to help you in certain ways generatng more sales and/or ensuring perfect tracking
(e.g. through coupon codes to identify affiliates for sales generated offline at conferences etc.)
Suggestions for Selling
If you sell a related service or product:
- Mention our products after customers have bought from you, e.g. in a post-purchase page or confirmation email.
If you run a blog or newsletter:
- Write a review or article about our products.
Contact us for more ideas.
Plimus
We use
Plimus as primary payment processing solution:
eSellerate - sales tracking and affiliate tagged downloads
We use
eSellerate as for backup payment processing solution.
eSellerate is owned and part of
Digital River
which is a global leader in ecommerce. Digital River is listed on
NASDAQ with stock symbol
DRIV.
For affiliates, this means you get 1st class best in industry support for integration and
tracking of sales generated by you. All payments and tracking is handled by eSellerate, part of
Digital River. You are also given access to various statistics and reports of sales and downloads.
You can read the PDF brouchure for more information
or sign up now as an affiliate.
Sales from affiliates are tracked using multiple methods:
- Easy to use product download and purchase urls that identifies the affiliate.
- Customized affiliate shopping pages that can remember returning visitors and users. Done with cookies.
- Automatic eST affiliate tagged download versions with builtin tracking of sales.
Techinical details of eST tagged downloads sales tracking:
- Installation sets a cookie with long lifetime. When user purchases, e.g. 30 days later after download, the cookie gets read and affiliate identified.
- Buy now links from inside the program uses links with affiliate ID builtin.
Types of eST downloads:
- Standard eST: Download files can be tagged with your affiliate ID through the web interface.
You download and host files yourself.
- Hosted eST: The download file is hosted on eSellerate,
and gets dynamicly tagged with your affiliate ID when a user downloads. You do not have to
update the eST download files yourself as new versions are released. Beyond standard sales tracking and reports,
you also get statistics of downloads originating from you.
Get started today and
sign up now.
How to Select Products to Sell
- Log into your affiliates account.
- Search for products you wish to sell. Most start selling one or all of these:
| A1 Keyword Research |
[keyword research] |
[media kit] |
| A1 Sitemap Generator |
[sitemap generator] |
[media kit] |
| A1 Website Analyzer |
[website analyzer] |
[media kit] |
| A1 Website Download |
[website download] |
[media kit] |
- Select Sell this product.
- Select Purchase links to get the HTML code and link to use.
-
eSellerate:
- Example #1: http://store.eSellerate.net/a.asp?c=0_SKUxxxxxxxxx_AFLxxxxxxxxx.
- Example #2: http://store.eSellerate.net/s.asp?cmd=BUY&SKURefNum=SKUxxxxxxxxx&AffIDC=AFLxxxxxxxxx.
- Select eST to get the HTML download links or download files to use.