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Our affiliate program might be the most advanced in the world.

Almost every affiliate program supports passing an affiliate ID with the URL. Almost every affiliate program sets a cookie with that affiliate ID. Many affiliate programs set that cookie for an entire year like we do.

Then we go the extra mile. We track the IP address as well. If someone returns from the same IP address and doesn't have an affiliate cookie set, we will reset it. But a few affiliate programs do that so we aren't incredibly special so far.

But then we go the extra marathon. If someone subscribes, we associate the cookie with that email address. If they ever return and use the same email address even from a different IP address and they don't have the affiliate cookie set, we'll set the cookie again based on the email address. I don't know of any affiliate program that does that.

But that isn't enough for us. We go even further. If you leave a comment on our blog, you get a free link to your website. That is reason enough for some people to leave a comment. But we also associate your website with your email address when you leave a comment. And your affiliate ID is associated with your email address.

Any traffic that comes from your website... even if you never used an affiliate link, will get a cookie with your affiliate ID in it if no other affiliate has already set a cookie.

That is another thing we do. We keep track for an entire year when someone sends us a referral. If someone else sends us that same person, most affiliate programs would give credit to that 2nd person. We don't. We give credit to the very first person to ever send us that prospect. Some people thing the other method is more fair. We think this method is more fair. It completely eliminates the possibility of someone replacing your affiliate ID with their own right before purchasing. That is a common method of affiliate fraud and it is eliminated by giving credit to the first person to send the referral rather than the last.

But imagine this. Let's say you have a blog. Let's say I commented on your blog and left a link to our site. There was no affiliate ID in the link at all. It was a straight link.

Let's say you have left a comment on our blog as well so we know who owns your site because we associated your email address with your URL when you left the comment.

In that scenario, it is possible for you to receive an affiliate commission even though you never joined our affiliate program and never directly promoted our program.

Here is how you might earn that commission...

Someone reads my comment on your blog and clicks my name to see my blog. They read about the Internet Business Box and eventually decide to purchase. Your affiliate ID (even if you don't even know your affiliate ID yet) is associated with that customer.

How?

When they visited, we noticed that they didn't have an affiliate cookie set. We went through every method we could find to set a cookie. We looked up their IP address and failed. They had never visited before. When they gave us their email address, we couldn't find any record of them having visited with an affiliate cookie in the past. So we looked at the referrer field for one last attempt to set an affiliate cookie. We saw your website in the affiliate field and we could associate that with your email address because you had left a comment on our blog in the past.

So we made up an affiliate ID for your email address on the spot and assigned a cookie and associated it with that IP address. If they subscribed during their visit, we also associated their email address with your affiliate ID. For one solid year, your cookie is set even though you never joined our affiliate program and never used an affiliate link on your site. All you did was to leave a comment on our blog. That act alone automatically registered you in our affiliate program and you received a 50% commission when they purchased the Internet Business Box.

We call that going the extra thousand miles for our affiliates.

You might want to consider leaving a comment on this blog entry so we know your web-site and can associated it with your email address. Your email address is private of course. We never share it. But we do keep track for our affiliate program. So you might want to use your PayPal email address on the comment form. Otherwise when you receive your surprise commission payment, you'll have to add another email address to your PayPal account to receive it.

BTW, if you do an ad swap with us, we also get the same information. Even though the ad swap is it's own reward, we throw in a blog entry just to make our ad swap program better than anyone else's.

We also automatically enroll you in our affiliate program and send you a surprise commission payment if your ad swap generates any sales for us.

Recently an ad swap did just that. The day of the ad swap generated 4 sales and he received a surprise commission payment. Of course it went to the wrong email address, but PayPal is used to that and included directions for how he could associate that email address with his PayPal account and claim the payment. The next day resulted in two more sales. He receive a surprise PayPal payment for that one as well.

When we approached him to ask if he wanted to do another ad swap, you can bet that he agreed. Our next ad swap is in mid February.

Leave a comment below. If you have a blog, I'll probably visit it and leave a comment on one of your blog posts soon. If someone clicks through and buys something from me, I'll send you a surprise commission payment.

Affiliate marketing has never been this easy!

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