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Sign Up
To sign up for the affiliate program and begin reselling Random Data Generator, click here. This program is free to join and is administered by E-junkie. Earn 30% commission for each sale that results from your referral.
Create Links
See E-junkie's Help for Affiliates to find out how to create affiliate links.
You may use Direct Links to resell Random Data Generator, but I strongly recommend using Hop Links instead. If you choose Hop Links, your affiliate links will point to the Random Data Generator sales page: Random Data Generator. A cookie with a six month expiration is placed on the end user's computer (by E-Junkie) with your affiliate ID embedded. Sales made using that cookie are credited to you. From E-junkie's Affiliate Page:
When you click your Hop Link, you will not see your ID anywhere on the seller's page, nor is that necessary to credit you for the sale, and the buyer does not even need to purchase anything immediately after clicking your link. Clicking your Hop Link sets a cookie in the buyer's browser which expires in 6 months, then we redirect them to the seller's page. Every affiliate-eligible product that buyer purchases from that seller during the life of that cookie will earn you a commission, even if they go back to the seller's site directly later without clicking through your link again.
Getting Paid
Commission earned during a given month is paid, via PayPal, as a lump-sum in the following month. For example, sales made in March are paid in April.
Your registered email with E-Junkie is the one used to send payment, so make sure you have entered your PayPal email in Affiliate Admin > Edit Profile.
If you need a PayPal merchant account for your business, click here to create one. (Yes, this is an affiliate link)
Terms Of Service
By participating in the Random Data Generator affiliate program, you acknowledge and agree to be bound by the following terms. Violation of any of the terms below will result in removal from the program. See also E-junkie's TOS for general Terms of Service.
- You must be 18 years or older to participate in the affiliate program.
- The affiliate program is free to join. There is no cost to sign up or participate.
- Commission is 30% of the total sale amount for each successfully referred sale.
- We are not responsible for cancelled sales, chargebacks, refunds and cases where cookies are blocked, preventing E-Junkie from placing a cookie on the visitor's computer.
- Commission payout is performed as a lump-sum during the month following a completed sales month. See Commission for details. Due to scheduling I cannot guarantee commission payout by a specific date, other than that it will be paid in the month following a given sales month.
- Participation in this program is voluntary and access may be revoked at any time. If you wish to leave the program, simply stop sharing any affiliate links (i.e. remove them from your website).
- As an affiliate, you are an independent contractor and not an employee of Jimmy Peña.
- Taxes and other outside fees associated with your own income production are your responsibility.
- Any online or offline programs initiated by you are your financial responsibility. For example, if you take out an ad to direct people to your affiliate link, it is up to you to pay for that ad.
- You will be solely responsible for your site, including its development, operation, and maintenance and all materials that appear on or within it. For example, you are responsible for posting affiliate links that correctly track your referrals, and for disclosing any financial interest you have in the products sold through the affiliate program.
- You agree not to misrepresent the product to any potential customer or affiliate.
- All online marketing efforts must comply with all spam and "truth in advertising" laws.
- You consent to receive emails regarding the affiliate program from time to time.
Sample Links, Banners & Graphics
Click here for sample images you can use to promote RDG on your blog or website.
Ways to promote RDG
If you run a blog or website, write a post about RDG to inform your readers. Include your affiliate link to make it easy for your visitors to purchase through you. This is the single best way to get more sales.
Include affiliate links in your sidebar or footer, in email correspondence, on business cards.
Use the WordPress plugin and/or Javascript code to display a random image on your site.
Cloak your affiliate links
It's a fact — site visitors are less likely to click on affiliate links. Some visitors will even deliberately hack your affiliate link to remove your ID, while others will assume that your reviews are not truthful if they contain an affiliate link to the product you are reviewing. Cloaking your links makes them more clickable and less prone to tampering. By the time a visitor figures out the link they clicked is an affiliate link, the cookie is already placed on their computer and they won't be able to "fix" the URL so you lose commission. You might think cloaking is dishonest, but cloaked links should actually be constructed in a way that makes them more transparent than the usual affiliate links you get. It should be obvious where the link is pointing.
I would not use a URL redirection service like goo.gl or tinyurl.com. At this point I think people have learned not to trust them. I know I am more likely to copy and paste one of these links into a redirect checker to make sure the final destination isn't some malware site, since the URL gives no indication where you are going.
My recommendation is to cloak affiliate links using friendly redirects in your .htaccess file, like this:
Example affiliate link:
http://www.affiliatesite.com/affid=12345?productid=67890
The new friendly URL we want:
http://www.jpsoftwaretech.com/out/myproduct
Example .htaccess redirect:
Redirect 302 /out/myproduct http://www.affiliatesite.com/affid=12345?productid=67890
What does this mean? In short, it states:
Whenever anyone visits http://www.jpsoftwaretech.com/out/myproduct, send them to http://www.affiliatesite.com/affid=12345?productid=67890 and return a 302 HTTP response.
The 302 response is needed so search engines don't mistakenly index the affiliate link, or penalize you for cloaking it. I also recommend you "nofollow" these links.
WordPress Plugin
There is a WordPress plugin for randomly choosing an ad from above and displaying it on your WordPress-based site or blog!
The plugin is called JP's Display Random RDG Ads and it can be downloaded from this link:
Installation
- Edit the plugin file (jpgetRDGLink.php) to update the list of URLs to reflect the location where you are putting the images.
- Upload the file through the WordPress interface (http://www.your_blog_url.com/wp-admin/plugin-install.php?tab=upload), or unzip the archive and place the PHP file 'jpgetRDGLink.php' in your wp-content/plugins folder.
- Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress.
- Place the main function call in your theme where you want the link to appear, like this:
<a href="YOUR HOP LINK HERE"><img src="<?php getRandomRDGImageLink(); ?>" /></a>
This will call the function and return a random image URL. You may also want to wrap the plugin calls in a function_exists() check, or create a shortcode to call the function inside a post or page. Put your e-Junkie hop link where it says "YOUR HOP LINK HERE". Read the plugin file itself for more information.
*** IMPORTANT ***
As a courtesy, I have included my Photobucket URL in the plugin as sources of the images. If your site gets more than 1k hits per day, please download the images to the server of your choice. Either way, you will need to edit the plugin file (jpgetRDGLink.php) to update the list of URLs to reflect the location where you are putting the images.
Tested on WordPress 3.1.2.
JavaScript Code
Sample JavaScript code for displaying RDG affiliate ads is also available. JavaScript is great for displaying ads because most of the popular caching plugins for WordPress will not cache JavaScript, resulting in more ad rotation than with a PHP-based plugin.
Download this file and upload somewhere onto the server of your choice. Call the code by putting the following into your webpage code:
<script type="text/javascript" src="path/jprandomRDGlink.js"></script>
where path is the path to the file. Put this code snippet wherever you want the ads to appear, ex: in your sidebar or footer.
You must edit the .js file to add your hop link (from e-Junkie) and add/remove image file URLs.
I have provided my Photobucket URL for you to use to display ads on your site. If your site gets more than 1k hits per day, however, please download the images and put them on your own server (and edit the URLs in the .js file).
If you need assistance with this code, or any other aspect of the program, please contact me.
