I am here to help you wherever possible to maximise your earnings. Here are some frequently asked questions about my program. |
|
How does the affiliate program work? |
In order to use the program you need to do three things: |
1.Get a dedicated CCBill affiliate ID for our site from CCBill. If you have signed up as an affiliate before with another program elsewhere then simply enter your existing CCBill affiliate details on the sign up page. If you are setting up an affiliate account for the first time with CCBill, then choose the new sign-up button. |
2.When your affiliate status has been confirmed by CCBill (usually immediately) contact us for details of how to access our content for you to use on your site. |
3.Using the tools available here (once you have logged in) obtain some of our promotional material for use on your site and publish it accordingly. |
You don't have to use the content to promote us on your site. You can grab a banner or add a text link on your site. Just make sure you use the correct coding to get any sale credit. |
The promotional material you obtain from us contains links that 'up sell' to our sites making you 50% on each sale! These links are a specific web address (URL) that incorporates your CCBill Affiliate ID number. Simply change the xxxxx part of any link with your CCBill affiliate number. |
Now when a visitor to your site clicks on one of those links to visit my site this is tracked via the CCBill Affiliate ID number and then if the visitor subsequently signs up for a membership a record of the sale goes against your Affiliate ID in CCBill and 50% of the sale comes to you. This will even work for recurring memberships. |
|
Does my site qualify? |
If you run any form of promotional site then you are likely to qualify. The only exceptions are those listed in the Terms and Conditions. |
|
Do I need to send a minimum amount of traffic? |
There are no minimum amounts of traffic to qualify. Affiliates of all sizes are welcome. |
|
I don't have a site yet, but can I still promote you? |
If you are simply planning a new site or are in the design stages of a new site, you will need to contact us first with your plans before we allow access to content. We can of course provide some sample galleries to help you with your build. |
PLEASE NOTE: It is your responsibility to make sure you use an active URL when signing up to the program. We regularly review all affiliate sign-ups and if we find that the URL listed is not active we will remove it from the affiliate program, even if you use the affiliate code on another URL. |
|
What promotional methods do you allow? |
Almost anything is acceptable (bearing in mind the types of site that aren't allowed). Thumbnail Gallery Post sites, Picpost sites, search engines, free sites, AVS sites are just some ideas. You may even use entry and exit consoles from your own site if you wish. I am also happy for you to use mailing lists (provided they have an opt-out facility)and link lists are all acceptable ways to generate traffic. |
|
I own or manage a pay site - can I use promotional content inside the member area? |
No. Affiliate sign-ups from pay sites are not allowed. However, you can of course request special sets and/or video clips to cater specifically to your niche customer market provided there is a hard link with that gallery and also in your main links page. |
|
What type of content do you provide? |
Content is provided in two ways - free hosted and zipped. Free hosted are galleries that are prepared by me and hosted on my servers. All you need to do is add your affiliate ID number to reap the rewards of a sign-up to my member area through this page. You don't need to worry about design or bandwidth constraints. However, some types of sites prefer to make their own pages so that the content layout is consistent. For these types of site, the zipped content means you simply take the gallery images and add them into your own designed page. Additional gallery images can be provided on request. |
|
How often do you update? |
There is no fixed date for updates, but new content is provided on a regular basis in both free hosted and zipped format. For any affiliate that has generated at least one new sale in the previous 12 month period, announcements of new material will always be made through CCBill and delivered to you by email. Please make sure your email system allows for these emails to be received or check your spam box regularly. If you use an email verification system (eg. Spam Assassin), you must whitelist "support (at) vixennylons (dot) org " to receive these update mailings. Don't worry if you haven't made a sale yet or have just signed up. Approved affiliate partners can of course log into the content area using the menu link above with the username and password supplied to you giving you access to all the available content, including updates, so check back regularly. If you haven't requested your login details yet, simply contact us for details. |
PLEASE NOTE: It is your responsibility to ensure your email address is kept up to date and accurate. If you are not receiving any email updates and believe you should be go to your CCBill Affiliate Admin area and update your records to prevent a bouncing email. |
|
Login details |
Login details are provided to affiliates either on request or automatically if I know the individual concerned. We take care to ensure affiliates who sign-up are appropriate to the content we provide. Because of the high incidence of bogus sign-ups we cannot automatically issue login details on sign-up. |
If you have requested login details and have not had a response it may be that your site is not appropriate, although occasionally this could be due to not receiving the request in the first place or because of holidays, so please don't automatically assume your request has been turned down. If you feel your site is appropriate and haven't heard back in a week, then simply re-send your request. |
Approximately once a year the login details will change. All active affiliates who have made a sale in the last 12 months will receive the new login details via email. If you haven't made a sale and find your login details no longer work you will need to contact us for new details. As part of your request we may investigate your site to see why sales are not being generated and contact you further to discuss with you how we could improve things. |
|
Multiple sign-ups and emails |
If you are receiving multiple emails regarding updates it is because you have signed up to the affiliate program more than once. We use the CCBill affiliate admin system to send out notices of updates because we find this is the easiest way of coding your affiliate ID's into the links, thereby saving you time and effort in having to look it up and then change the xxxxxx part of the link. Because CCBill doesn't provide an email opt out system, all active affiliates will receive an update email and that means you will receive more than one copy if you signed up more than once. |
Some of you will have your reasons for signing up several times. However, if you are receiving multiple copies of email updates and only need one affiliate account for our program, the only solution to this is for you to make a note of the affiliate ID's from those mails, decide which one you are consistently using, then contact us with the ID's you don't need so we may "de-activate" the unused ones. I have no way of changing your email address or any other personal details relating to your affiliate account. |