Go to the “Statistics” drop-down and choose “Monthly Reporting.”

Here you can use the calendar to view current and past months affiliate statistics.

At the bottom of the stats page, you can see which domain names you have referred as well as the date and time they purchased their hosting accounts.

Note that all sales are confirmed manually to prevent fraudulent accounts. We also manually approve all commissions, so you may not see a sale appear in your affiliate control panel for up to a day.

If you have any questions about sales you have referred, please contact the affiliate manager.

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Select a category, then select and copy the HTML code for the banner you wish to use. Paste the code anywhere on your website.

Your affiliate ID is in the HTML code, so any sales originating from the code are automatically tracked to your account.

To make a text or email link, use only the URL portion of the code.

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To create a campaign code, log in to the GreenGeeks affiliate portal and click the “Campaigns” navigation link.

Click the “Add Campaign” link.

A box will open. Create a campaign code and a description to help identify the code.

Using the campaign code in a link: https://www.greengeeks.com/track/yourusername/cp-yourcampaigncode

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Click the “LOGIN” button to go to the Affiliate Dashboard.

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Check the table below and add the number that corresponds to the landing page you’d like to use to your referral link like this:

https://www.greengeeks.com/track/yourusername/cp-default/lp-#

Where # is the number of the landing page from the table.

So for example, if you wanted your referrals to land on the WordPress hosting page, you would use the following URL:

https://www.greengeeks.com/track/yourusername/cp-default/lp-6

Landing Page	#
Shared Hosting	1
Reseller Hosting	2
WordPress Hosting	6
Platform	127
GreenGeeks Reviews Page	16
Website Transfer	7
Drupal Hosting	9
Joomla Hosting	11
GreenGeeks.ca Website	5
Dedicated Servers	4
VPS Hosting	3
Going Green	14
WooCommerce Hosting	187
cPanel Hosting	171
CMS Hosting	8
Magento Hosting	52
PrestaShop Hosting	74
OpenCart Hosting	60

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I started in 2000 as an affiliate manager for a large web hosting company and ever since then I have continued to work with web hosting affiliates in companies I have worked for as well as my own company GreenGeeks. I understand how valuable our affiliates are to our growth and I have made sure that our marketing department treats our affiliates with special care.

We want our affiliates to make money, but even more importantly, we want them to be sure that the company they are referring business to takes care of the clients they refer. Far too often I have heard from our affiliates about troubles that their referred clients receive at other hosts.

We’ve heard from affiliates about how other companies don’t take care of the clients they receive from affiliates, including slow order activations, incorrect information and logins, downtime, and poor customer service. GreenGeeks is one of the most acclaimed and trustworthy web hosts on the internet today, and we make sure that our clients are quickly contacted for activation, that they receive confirmed logins, we offer free site migrations for over 95% of the types of clients we receive and we have friendly and available support and server administration 24-7.

We take care of our clients, and we take just as much pride in taking care of our affiliates as well, plus we offer some advantages that other web hosting companies and their affiliate programs don’t offer.

One of the first ways that we make sure that our affiliates can maximize their opportunities with us is to let them know of all of their options. We have an affiliate FAQ center for our affiliates to learn when they are paid as well as how much they will be paid (we have a graduated payout schedule to earn more for every account they refer), we offer them the ability to make commissions on all our hosting services (not just some of them) and how our affiliates can send their visitors to the sections of our web hosting services that might best appeal to their clients.

Here is our FAQ section for affiliates.

We offer a way for web hosting affiliates to make more money with us than they can at other companies. We offer a tiered affiliate payout schedule every month. That means the more clients you refer in a given month, each additional client adds $10 for the value of the payout of the newest client and each client they have referred previously within the given calendar month.

So it works like this, we pay $50 for the 1st client in the given month.  If a second client is referred by the affiliate within that month, then the value of the commission for the second and first client goes up to $60 each. A third client referred within that given month, and all three commissions value is $70 each. That continues up to the 6th client where all commissions for the six clients referred in that month plus any additional clients referred, past the sixth client, is valued at $100 each. Here’s the breakdown of the tiered affiliate commission structure. As far as your payout here, we pay regularly, on a schedule.

We pay our affiliates via PayPal, however for affiliates who can consistently send us enough business each month ($10,000 or more in commissions) we offer wire transfers as an option.

Most web hosting companies will not pay affiliates for referring them reseller or VPS web hosting business, but we do. We not only payout commissions to our affiliates for reseller and VPS clients but we also make it easier for our affiliates to refer those clients to us, we have special tracking codes which will redirect people interested in Reseller or VPS services directly to those pages on our web site which talk directly about those services, and we believe we have some of the most competitive reseller and VPS plans anywhere.

In addition to Reseller and VPS hosting, we also offer shared hosting services. Many times someone looking at a shared web hosting plan will have a particular type of CMS program that they want to use to build their web site (or they could have used one of those CMS programs to build a site at another host, and now they are looking to switch to a different host that supports the CMS program they have used).

Some of the most popular CMS programs include; WordPress, Drupal, and Joomla and we have tracking codes you can use to send referrals directly to those pages on our site that showcase our hosting services for those CMS programs. Here’s an article about how to get the redirect codes.

As a bonus incentive for you referring business to us and for an added incentive for your referred clients to sign up with us and make sure you get the most possible commissions we offer each new client a coupon code worth 20% off any annual shared hosting plan they buy or 20% off the first month of the reseller or VPS plan they buy.

Here are the coupon codes you can use to lower your referred clients’ start-up costs with us:

• TAKE20OFF – 20% annual shared hosting accounts
• RESELLER20OFF – 20% monthly, quarterly and annual reseller hosting accounts
• VPS20OFF – 20% monthly VPS hosting accounts

These coupons are not valid for renewals of these accounts with GreenGeeks.

We want to help you watch out for any government regulations regarding making money as an affiliate on the internet. The Federal trade commission in late 2009 issued guidelines that affiliates must follow or else they can run into a legal issue with the government. We have a detailed FAQ on what you need to know to abide by these guidelines so that you can continue to make money with our affiliate program. View the breakdown of the FTC’s guidelines.

I would greatly appreciate the opportunity to work with you as an affiliate of GreenGeeks. I know we have the best affiliate program for you and I look forward to the business we can do together and especially sending you a nice big check, PayPal payment or if the numbers look great, a wire payment each month.

Trey Gardner
CEO – GreenGeeks

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The reason commissions are delayed until the middle of the following month is because we provide a 30-day money back guarantee, so we need to delay commission until the newly referred customer has stayed past the refund eligibility period.

Here is the affiliate program payout schedule:

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The first step is to sign up for our affiliate program.

Once your account is approved, log in to your affiliate account.

For a sale to track to your affiliate account, a cookie must be set on the web hosting buyer’s computer before their purchase of hosting services. For that to happen, the potential customer must either click on your affiliate link (which can be embedded into an image or text link) or enter your affiliate tracking URL into a browser.

Your unique affiliate URL will be in the following format:
https://www.greengeeks.com/track/your-username/cp-default
(where “your-username” is your actual username in the affiliate program). That is the tracking link you want the potential customer to click or enter into a browser.

To learn how to redirect your visitors to other areas of our web site like our Drupal, Joomla, WordPress, VPS or Canadian Hosting pages, check out How to use Landing Pages with the GreenGeeks Affiliates Program.

When Are the Affiliate Sales Commissions Paid?

Thank you for considering joining the GreenGeeks affiliate program. We look forward to sending you commission payments for the sales you refer.

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GreenGeeks requires that each affiliate complies with the rules and guidelines established by the FTC and that failure to do so may result in removal from our affiliate program and cancellation of commissions.

Please read the FTC’s: Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising.

As an Affiliate, How Can You Comply With the FTC Rules?

To comply with the FTC rules you should meet four basic requirements regarding your disclosure to your website visitors that you may receive compensation for your reviews, recommendations, rankings, etc.. Your disclosures should be frequent, clear, conspicuous and require no additional scrolling or other type of action (like hovering) to be able to see the disclosure.

The FTC advises that your disclosure should be on any page that has a review, recommendation, comment or article that promotes any product or service for which you receive an affiliate commission.

The FTC further advises that it should be clear to the reader that as an affiliate you may receive compensation for your reviews, recommendations, rankings, etc.

The disclosure should be in text which is at least as large as the other text on your website page and should be in contrast with both the background of the website page and with the other text on that page. So for example, if your website page background is white and your text is black, you should use a dark color (other than and distinctive compared to black text) like bright blue for your disclosure’s text.

The disclosure should also start with the word “Disclosure,” and it should require no scrolling or any other type of user action to have the disclosure be immediately evident to your website visitor.

Example Disclosure:

Disclosure: This website is independently owned and operated. We are a professional review website which receives compensation from the companies whose products and/or services we review. We tested and reviewed the web hosting sites ranked here and the opinions expressed here are our own.

If you have further questions regarding the FTC rules and your website you should consult with a legal advisor AND you may learn more from the FTC with their helpful guideline articles and information below:

Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising
The FTC’s Revised Endorsement Guides: What People are Asking
Dot Com Disclosures: Information About Online Advertising

Note that the information provided in this article is intended as guidance only and is not intended as legal advice. Should you need more legal advice regarding how these rules pertain to your website, you should seek a legal advisor.

We greatly appreciate our business partnership and your compliance with the FTC rules.

Trey Gardner
CEO GreenGeeks

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