What changed: follower minimum and $100 threshold
Two changes to how LinkApprove works, why each was made, and who is worse off. Written the way we would want to read it if it were someone else's platform.
LinkApprove Publisher Team · · 3 min
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LinkApprove Publisher Team
Editorial team, LinkApprove
The LinkApprove team that writes for creators and publishers. We explain how affiliate programs, cookie windows, commissions and payouts actually work, including the parts that are unflattering to us.
10 articles
Sub-IDs, or how to know which post actually earned
Untagged affiliate traffic cannot be broken down after the fact. A sub-ID naming scheme that still reads clearly in six months, what to keep out of one, and the things sub-IDs do not fix.
LinkApprove Publisher Team · · 6 min
The first ninety days, honestly
Month one produces clicks and no money, month two produces the first validated cohort and the first reversals, and month three is the first honest read of the run rate. What actually happens, and why the first payout looks worse than the business is.
LinkApprove Publisher Team · · 6 min
Sub-affiliate networks explained, no sales pitch
What a sub-affiliate network actually is, how the commission split works, and the specific situations where it is the wrong choice.
LinkApprove Publisher Team · · 5 min
Cookie windows are shrinking: what still works
Attribution windows have tightened across retail affiliate programs. Here is which content formats still earn under a short window, and which quietly stop working.
LinkApprove Publisher Team · · 6 min
Why your pending commission keeps disappearing
Reversals are normal in retail affiliate marketing. Here is what causes them, which categories they concentrate in, and when a clawback pattern is telling you something.
LinkApprove Publisher Team · · 6 min
Mastering Affiliate Marketing in Just One Month
A four-week plan for learning affiliate marketing from scratch, covering the terminology, choosing a program, building a site and driving traffic to it.
LinkApprove Publisher Team · · 4 min
Affiliate Marketing Top Leaders
Profiles of four affiliate marketers, Pat Flynn, John Chow, Neil Patel and Shawn Collins, and the lesson each one is best known for teaching.
LinkApprove Publisher Team · · 6 min
How to Become an Affiliate with No Experience
A beginner's guide to affiliate marketing: how merchants, affiliates and customers fit together, and six steps from choosing a niche to tracking results.
LinkApprove Publisher Team · · 4 min
The Best Affiliate Programs That Pay Daily
Why daily payouts suit affiliates who need cash flow, six networks that offer them including ClickBank, MaxBounty and FlexOffers, and four tips for success.
LinkApprove Publisher Team · · 3 min
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