# Promote Your Link and Earn

> Turn your referral link into commissions — where to share it, what converts, and how to read the results in your dashboard.

Getting your link is step one; earning from it is the real work. This page covers where a referral link actually converts, how to promote it without burning your audience, and how to use your dashboard to double down on what works.

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## The one rule that matters

Recommend things you would recommend anyway. The partners who earn the most are not the ones who post the most links — they are the ones whose audience already trusts their taste. A referral link works when it sits inside genuinely useful content: a tutorial that happens to use the product, an honest review, a comparison, a workflow you actually run. It fails when it is bolted onto content that exists only to place the link.

## Where links convert

Ranked roughly by how well they tend to convert, not by reach:

1. **Content that solves a problem the product solves.** A how-to, a setup guide, a "here's my stack" post. The reader is already in a buying mindset — the link is the natural next step, not an interruption.
2. **Honest reviews and comparisons.** "I tried X for six months — here's the good and the bad." Comparisons especially: people searching "X vs Y" are close to a decision.
3. **Your newsletter.** A warm audience that opted in to hear from you converts far above cold social traffic. One well-placed recommendation to an engaged list beats a hundred cold impressions.
4. **Communities where you are a known regular.** Answering a real question with a real recommendation converts. Drive-by link drops in communities you don't participate in do not — and often get you banned.
5. **Direct outreach.** For high-ticket products, a personal message to someone who has the exact problem outperforms any broadcast.

## What to avoid

- **Spraying the link into unrelated threads.** It converts near zero and damages the trust that makes everything else work.
- **Hiding that it's a referral.** A short "this is my referral link" line costs you nothing and keeps your audience's trust. Many regions require the disclosure anyway.
- **Promising outcomes the product doesn't deliver.** A refund is a clawed-back commission and a lost reader.

## Use one link everywhere

Share the same referral link across every channel. Affitor records every click on it in a first-party cookie and ties any later signup or sale back to you, so you don't need a different link per channel to get credit — you need your dashboard to tell you which channel is working.

## Read your dashboard and double down

Your **Performance** and **Analytics** views show clicks, signups, and sales over time. Use them as a feedback loop, not a scoreboard:

- **Clicks but no signups?** Your audience is curious but the offer or landing page isn't closing them — try a warmer context (a review instead of a mention) or a different audience segment.
- **Signups but no sales?** People start but don't convert to paid — this is usually the product's funnel, not your promotion. Worth a note to the advertiser through [Messages](/partners/dashboard).
- **One channel outperforming?** Put more there. Most partners find that one or two channels drive the majority of earnings — the data tells you which before your intuition does.

## Verify it worked

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  dashboard={["Visit your own referral link once — within a few minutes the click appears in your Performance view", "When a referred visitor signs up or buys, the signup and sale appear on the same timeline and a commission shows under your Payout balance"]}
  ifNotWorking={["No click after visiting your own link usually means a cookie or ad-blocker is stripping the ?aff= parameter — try an incognito window without blockers to confirm tracking is live"]}
/>

## Next steps

- [Getting paid](/partners/payouts) — how commissions become a balance and how to withdraw
- [Your dashboard](/partners/dashboard) — Performance, Analytics, and referred customers
- [Refer other partners](/partners/refer-program) — earn from partners you bring in