Affiliate

Success
Guide
+ The 9 Best Tips to Become A
Successful Affiliate
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Congratulations
and welcome to the
Digistore24 family!
As a Digistore24 Affiliate, you have access to one of the largest affiliate marketplaces in the
world—featuring more than 8,000 established and high-converting products, services, and
digital courses that you can promote quickly and easily.

Now that you have signed up, we want you to start earning commissions immediately so
you can scale your business faster. To help you take that first step toward affiliate marketing
success, we have put together some essential tips and proven strategies in our Affiliate
Success Guide.

Take a look! We can’t wait for you to get started.

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Top 5 Affiliate
“How-Tos”
1. How to Get Your Affiliate Link
Your affiliate link, otherwise known as your promolink, is a unique tracking link that you
will use to promote a vendor’s offer. Your unique promolink is how your commissions
are tracked and added to your Digistore24 ID, so it is very important for affiliates to
understand how to get their unique links for each offer they want to promote. In most
cases, you can get your affiliate promolink yourself within our marketplace. However,
sometimes a vendor may want to personally whitelist their affiliates; in this case, you
would first need to sign up to promote an offer and the vendor will send you your
promolink if you are approved.

2. How to Set Up Parameters/Sub IDs

Setting up your parameters/sub IDs is extremely important if you would like to track
how the offer you are promoting is doing on a more detailed level. Tracking by sub IDs
is a way for you to see how the different traffic sources you are using (e.g., different
email lists) are performing. Simply follow the steps below to properly set up your
parameters/sub IDs.

Promolink and click ID:

Add the click ID as GET parameter cid to your promolink/content links.

Example:

https://www.digistore24.com/redir/PRODUCT/AFFILIATEDSID/CAMPAIGN?cid=CLICKID
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For sub ids, use: sid1, sid2, sid3, sid4, sid5.

Example:

https://www.digistore24.com/redir/PRODUCT/AFFILIATE DSID/emaillist1?sid1=usamalesonly

Placeholders for postback url:

{campaignkey} Campaign key (think of this as the “main” subID)

Example:

{cid} Click id

{sid1} Sub id #1

{sid2} Sub id #2

{sid3} Sub id #3

{sid4} Sub id #4

{sid5} Sub id #5

3. How to Set Up S2S (Server 2 Server) Postback

Affiliates often work with third-party software platforms to track metrics such as clicks
and conversions. In order for this information and data to flow into your third-party
software properly from Digistore24, you need to set up S2S postback tracking. You
can easily do this yourself by following the steps outlined here.

4. How to Navigate the Marketplace

Knowing how to navigate through the Digistore24 Marketplace is important because
it lets you discover all of the various established offers you can promote as an affiliate
to earn commissions within our platform. It also supplies you with information such
as payouts, average order value, how well an offer is doing, and what vertical/niche
an offer is in. The marketplace is also where you will get your promolink if you wish
to promote a certain offer. View our detailed guide on how to seamlessly navigate
through our marketplace here.
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5. How to Set Up Your Payout Account

If you want to get paid (which we all do!), it is very important that you successfully set
up your payment information and payout account. Simply click here for a step-by-step
guide on setting up your payout account.

Note that in the US, affiliates can receive payment by Wire, PayPal, or ACH (direct
deposit). Additionally, please visit this page to see the standard Affiliate Payment
Schedule, and keep in mind that there are certain instances where we can provide
even faster payouts; for this, please reach out to our Affiliate Growth Team to see if you
qualify.
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The 9 Best Tips to

Become A Successful
Affiliate
1. Network and Build Relationships
Especially in the direct response marketing space, people like to do business with
people they like, so make sure to network as much as possible and build relationships
with vendors and even other affiliates. Just like with your affiliate promotions, instead
of just trying to sell, do your best to build personal connections and most importantly,
GIVE VALUE! And remember, our Digistore24 Affiliate Growth Managers are here
to connect you with other players in the industry to get you everything you need,
including introductions to the top vendors on our marketplace. Pro tip: If you are
looking to network with top players in the industry, the two best annual events/
conferences you simply cannot miss are Affiliate Summit West aka ASW (held in Las
Vegas, Nevada) and the Traffic and Conversion Summit aka T&C (held in San Diego,
California).

2. Start by First Concentrating on One Niche

If you are just starting out, begin by concentrating on just one affiliate niche — ideally,
one you are already passionate about! The good news: There are more than 20
different verticals/niches on our marketplace with over 8,000 offers to choose from.
Pro tip: The three most popular niches on the Digistore24 marketplace are Health &
Fitness, Business & Investment (Biz Opp), and Personal Development.

3. Track Your Activities and Numbers

It is always important to track all of your numbers—revenue, clicks, conversions, EPC,
and so on. At Digistore24, you will get unique tracking promolinks which you can
customize for all of your affiliate promotions. And the Digistore24 Business Cockpit
and Reports sections will help you streamline your reporting so you can make sure you
are never leaving any money on the table.
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4. Know Your Audience/Traffic

Understanding your audience/traffic in detail, including information about their
demographics and interests, will help you be more successful and rake in more cash
by determining what makes them tick and what products they are likely to buy.

5. Test (and Constantly Improve!)

Whether with different ads or email swipes, different types of offers, different copy, or
different campaign times, it is always important to test, test, test! Little changes can go
a long way toward helping you make a big increase in sales.

6. Determine Your Hottest Offers (80/20 Rule)

It is likely that 20% (or less) of the offers you promote will account for 80% of your
affiliate revenue, so make sure you determine what offers (or types of offers) do best
with your audience or traffic. At Digistore24, we have offers from pretty much every
vertical you can think of, and per vertical, a variety of different offers you can promote.

7. Try Promoting New Offers

We always recommend testing newly launched offers. Why? They are likely not already
burned out by being promoted by other affiliates, and your audience is also likely
craving something new. Think about it: If you have a diabetes email list, your followers
are likely to pull the trigger and purchase if you present to them a new way to lower
their blood sugar. Link up with our Affiliate Growth Managers to stay in the know about
new offers that launch or even offers you haven’t yet tested. You can also follow us on
social media or look out for our email newsletter to stay informed. Another great way
to stay in the know about new offers is by checking out our YouTube channel, where
each week on Coffee & Cash, we’ll announce the newest hot offers on the Digistore24
Marketplace.

8. Try Different Swipes or Assets

It is always recommended to try new email swipes or promotional ad assets to keep
things fresh and maximize clicks. Check out an offer’s Affiliate Support Page for new
swipes or promotional assets, or reach out to one of our amazing Affiliate Growth
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Managers who can gladly connect with vendors to see if they have anything new you
can try out.

9. Determine What Types of Landing Pages Convert Best

with Your Traffic
There are so many different types of landing pages—whether it be text-only, VSL
(video sales letter), long-form presell pages, advertorials, short-form sales pages, and
the list goes on—so make sure to try promoting different types of landing pages to see
which convert best with your traffic.