VigLink

The best part of using VigLink is that it saves you time and makes an otherwise difficult and error prone process completely simple. Now we are making it even easier. We offer plugins for some of the most popular platforms on the web including WordPress and vBulletin. We also have detailed visual instructions for Blogger, TypePad, and phpBB, Tumblr and we are adding more all the time. Head over to the install page to find the latest plugins.

We are also ready to help you sort through any questions you might have about disclosing your affiliate relationships to comply with FTC regulations. We encourage all publishers to abide by FTC guidelines and disclose their affiliate relationships, but we also make it very easy to do. Check out our disclosure page to read more and to select from one of six disclosure badges we provide for you. The disclosure badges will bring your readers back to the disclosure page if they click through, providing them brief explanation and links to all the information they might want to know about the FTC ruling.

Adding a disclosure badge is also the easiest way to participate in our referral program. If anyone clicks on your badge and signs up, you can earn extra money!

Galen Thompson

Relationship Manager, VigLink

You already know that VigLink has over 12,500 merchants in our affiliate program database. Well we’ve just added one more: Ourselves!

If you refer a fellow publisher to VigLink, you will earn a referral fee equal to 10% of their earnings for the first year. Their earnings will not be affected.

So if you find VigLink valuable, please, tell your friends. Our customers know how much time and energy it can save, and how effortless it is to make money from the content they’re already writing. Help us spread the word and you will share in the success of the publishers you refer.

Naturally, any link you create on a site with VigLink installed is automatically active in the referral program. Go ahead and write a blog post and link to viglink.com, and VigLink does the rest. If anyone clicks that link, signs up, and generates revenue, you will get a bonus of 10% of that revenue. If you want to promote us on twitter, facebook, or somewhere that is not your site use the link provided on the Account tab. Those signups and earnings will also be tracked.

UPDATE: Check out the easiest way to participate in the referral program, and disclose your affiliate relationships at the same time. VigLink Disclosure Badges!

As always, if you have thoughts, comments or concerns, please don’t hesitate to email us at support@viglink.com.

Galen Thompson

Relationship Manager, VigLink

Update: This blog post has been amended after discussions with several merchants, affiliate networks and yes, our attorneys. The affiliate tax issue is complex and continues to evolve.

Amazon and the Colorado legislature have created quite a stir in the affiliate marketing community recently. Colorado passed a new tax law affecting online commerce and Amazon responded by terminating its affiliate relationship with all Colorado affiliates. You can find more information here. Also available is copy of the letter from Amazon to its Colorado affiliates. This is a broad debate with larger implications for online retailers, but the the real hardship is borne by the Colorado affiliates. Other laws affecting the taxation of online commerce have passed in New York, North Carolina, and Rhode Island with the similar results — in some cases the dropping of hard working affiliates. Laws have also been considered in California, Connecticut, Hawaii, Maryland, Minnesota, and Tennessee.

VigLink may be able to help. Affiliate marketing is a profession for some, a hobby for others, and an important source of income for many.  One of our goals as a company is to improve the status quo in affiliate marketing, and we are working to make affiliate marketing easier and more profitable for publishers while bringing value to the merchants and protecting their ability to manage their brand and make their own business decisions.  Contact us for more information info [at] viglink dot com.