Affiliate Program Rules and Guidelines
eClickZ #1 top priority is delivering the highest quality traffic available to eClickZ advertisers.
Failure to Comply
You agree that if you are not compliant with any of the policies listed herein, your eClickZ affiliate account will be deactivated and all click revenue will be credited back to the advertisers and debited from your account.
SPAM
eClickZ does not condone the use of SPAM. Unsolicited email generated by affiliates is grounds for permanent deactivation of the affiliate account and forfeiture of all earned commission.
Site Content
- Website's cannot include any illegal content.
- Website's must be fully functional, easy to navigate, and cannot contain any broken links.
- You must be the owner of your own unique domain name (no free web hosting sites allowed).
- Your website, and all web pages containing eClickZ ad code, must be written in English and owned by a company located in a country where the official language is English with the exception of western European countries.
- All websites that participate in any of the eClickZ affiliate programs are subject to approval by eClickZ. eClickZ reserves the right to immediately stop providing the service to an affiliate for any reason whatsoever.
Quality Traffic
- If eClickZ determines that it has received low quality, invalid, or fraudulent traffic from any affiliate as measured by our proprietary Traffic Analysis System and manual reviews by the eClickZ Traffic Quality Team, eClickZ reserves the right to issue our advertisers a retroactive refund, as far back as 365 days, for that traffic.
- eClickZ Traffic Analysis system is running both in real time and intermittently. Therefore, credits and debits against your account balance maybe done at anytime.
- A visitor must spend sufficient amount of time (e.g. not less than 15 seconds) on the visited advertiser's website to be counted as "valid".
- You will earn commission only for one click even though the visitor clicked on the ad multiple times (1 unique click per IP per 24 hours)
- If visitors originating from your website visit eClickZ advertiser listings too frequently (as compared to similar visitors from other sources), eClickZ may credit the advertiser and debit your account entirely for those visits.
- The vast majority of your visitors must have cookies enabled.
- Your traffic must be proportionally equal to the rest of the eClickZ affiliates. Out of the ordinary traffic will not be compensated for any of the clicks generated.
Invalid or Fraudulent Clicks
It is strictly forbidden to generate any artificial and/or fraudulent clicks. Some examples of fraudulent clicks include but are not limited to: repeated manual clicks, clicking with the intent to make money (get paid to), clicks that produce inadequate conversions for the advertisers, incentivized clicks, clicks produced using robots/hitbots and/or other automated clicking utilities and softwares.
Incentives
You must not include any incentives for users to click on the eClickZ ads. The web pages cannot contain phrases such as "support us", "visit these links", "click here", or any other similar language.
"Test" Clicks"
"Test" clicking is prohibited. You must not click, and you cannot ask any of your friends/relatives/co-workers etc. to click on the eClickZ ads.
Conversions
Your website must provide click-through traffic that converts into sales, leads, etc. for eClickZ Advertisers. Based on eClickZ Advertiser feedback and other proprietary methods, eClickZ will determine whether your traffic is providing an acceptable, qualified number of conversions compared to similar websites.
Affiliate Arbitrage
In general, arbitrage is the practice of purchasing clicks from Pay Per Click Search Engines at a low cost per click for the sole purpose of redirecting those clicks to higher cost Pay Per Click listings. Using arbitrage to generate clicks on eClickZ listings often results in traffic that is below our traffic quality standards.
In order to protect our advertisers, and to ensure that they receive only the highest quality traffic possible, please be aware of the following:
- Affiliates are strongly discouraged from using paid advertising to drive traffic to pages that show eClickZ ads in order to earn revenue. Those engaging in “arbitrage” as it is commonly known, risk forfeiting any generated earnings and may have their accounts permanently banned.
- All new affiliate accounts will be monitored and reviewed by our proprietary Traffic Analysis System in order to evaluate traffic quality. During this time, your account may not earn a commission on all clicks.
- Accounts that are found to be sending low quality traffic purchased through other PPC networks will likely NOT be compensated for this traffic.
- eClickZ will perform retroactive credit backs on traffic that does not meet our standards for traffic quality.
- eClickZ reserves the right to permanently deactivate any affiliate account that is sending traffic that is of low quality based on eClickZ's proprietary traffic quality standards. These standards are often much more stringent than other PPC networks.
- Any type of incentivized traffic (e.g. Pay-to-Read, Pay-to-Surf, etc), even if it originates from traffic purchased on another PPC network, is prohibited and will result in permanent deactivation of the affiliate account.
"Popups" and "Pop-unders"
Explicit written permission must be obtained from eClickZ prior to integrating eClickZ advertising listings into any type of popup or pop-under window.
Ad Placement
- The ads must be clearly visible. The color of the page may not obscure any portion of the ads.
- Content Match Ads cannot be placed on pages published specifically for the purpose of showing ads, whether or not the content is relevant.
- Content Match Ads cannot be pasted into any software application, toolbar, etc without prior written permission from eClickZ.
"Auto-Displaying" or Embedding
Affiliates may not "auto-display" or embed eClickZ results on their site without obtaining prior explicit written permission from eClickZ.
The term "auto-displaying" describes eClickZ ads that are displayed on Affiliate sites without first requiring the surfer to indicate their interest in viewing those ads. Surfers should express interest in viewing eClickZ ads by either typing a search into a search box, or clicking on a text link containing the keyword. Failure to comply with this policy may result in the closing of affiliate accounts, and/or loss of earned revenue.
Appropriate Category and Keyword Selection
You must select the category that appropriately describes the content of the pages where you will be pasting the eClickZ Content Match ad code. Our editors reserve the right to change your category selection at any time. Any keywords/phrases submitted by you can be modified by our editors at any time and for any reason.
Code Modification
The eClickZ HTML/JavaScript ad code must be pasted directly into the web page without any modification. You are not allowed to create any script (JavaScript, VBScript, etc.) that would interfere with the eClickZ ad code or its tracking. You may not alter the code for any reason without prior written permission from eClickZ.
Disclosure of Sub-Affiliates
In order to protect our advertisers, affiliates may under special circumstances be required to provide eClickZ a list of their sub-affiliates and domains that are sending traffic to the eClickZ advertiser listings. If a eClickZ affiliate's sub-affiliate is found to be sending invalid traffic to eClickZ and its advertisers, eClickZ will require the affiliate to block/prevent this sub-affiliate from displaying eClickZ ads. No payment will be issued for any invalid clicks.
eClickZ will not specifically target or attempt to entice your sub-affiliates to our service. eClickZ does however attempt to contact all website owners and webmasters with the intent of having the organization use our services directly. This is done through traditional promotional means.
Monetary Payment
- Any advertiser's refusal to pay (e.g. due to poor quality traffic) will result in a debit from the responsible affiliate accounts and possible termination.
- As mentioned above, eClickZ will perform retroactive credit backs on traffic that does not meet our stringent and proprietary standards for traffic quality.
- Payments are issued by check in U.S. dollars, monthly, to all eClickZ.com affiliates in good standing that follow all eClickZ terms and conditions if the accumulated amount is $50 or greater. If earnings do not reach $50 at the time we issue the monthly payment, the earnings due to you are rolled over for the following period until the minimum payment is reached.
- Payment cycle: Affiliate commission checks are issued by the 15th of each month. Mailing of checks is done worldwide using the U.S. Postal System to the address provided by you. We are not responsible if the checks are cashed by the wrong individuals.
- Upon cancellation of service, any fraction due below $50 will be forfeited. Amounts between $0.01 and $49.99 will be paid to you in the form of advertising dollars in the eClickZ Advertising program.
