Advertising With Shopping-Bargains.com

Shopping-Bargains.com may be interested in advertising on your website. We are continually searching for quality web sites with similar demographics. Shopping-Bargains.com offers an affiliate program that pays based on visitors that you send to our site. We have a variety of text links and banners to complement most web sites and can also customize special creatives to fit your unique look and feel. (See some examples of our text links and banners.)

Please contact us if you are interested in selling advertising space to us. Please give us details such as your website's URL, advertising rates and terms, and your website's target demographics (what type of visitors you attract or market to). We are interested in both monthly and annual arrangements.

Please Note that Shopping-Bargains.com:

• Is only interested advertising on web sites that are family-friendly (no emphasis on alcohol, gambling, pornography, tobacco, hate, violence, etc.)
  
  
• Evaluates prospective adverting opportunities based on our moral and ethical standards, marketing priorities and other criteria we deem appropriate
  
  
• Is NOT interested in advertising using pop-ups, pop-unders, spam (any unsolicitated e-mail), "get paid to click" incentive schemes or similar marketing strategies

We are frequently contacted by online merchants seeking a listing on Shopping-Bargains.com. Each merchant is carefully evaluated prior to being listed on Shopping-Bargains.com and an attempt is made to only list secure and reputable retailers and service providers who feature family-friendly products and services. Since this is a business we do not provide "free" listings; however, we do not charge up-front costs for being listed.

We prefer to work through a merchant's affiliate program that is administered via one of the affiliate marketing networks listed below. An affiliate program provides a win-win opportunity for our merchant partners and for us. Specifically, we are only paid when someone shopping our site clicks one of our links to your site and buys from your store. In this case the payment is assessed by the affiliate network in the form of a percentage of the sale or for a specific referral fee. Under this arrangement, the bulk of the risk is on us since instead of simply paying to be listed in our directory, affiliated merchants only pay if we send them customers who actually buy something from them.

Please contact us if you are interested in being listed in the Shopping-Bargains.com directory so we can discuss affiliate program details. If you do not have an affiliate program, we encourage you to review the popular affiliate marketing networks listed below. We also offer some non-affiliate advertising options in our newsletter.

Popular Affiliate Marketing Networks We Work With:
(If you don't have an affiliate program, we recommend you join one or more of these networks to start promoting your store on thousands of websites.)

• AvantLink
• clixGalore
• Commission Junction
• LinkConnector
• LinkShare
• LinkShare UK
• MaxBounty
• My Affiliate Program
• Pepperjam Network
• Performics
• ShareASale
• Share Results
• UK - affiliatefuture.co.uk

Frequently Asked Questions (for Potential Affiliate Partners)

Q: Are your listing fees based on actual sales?
A: Since our pay is based on our performance for you, we charge nothing just to be listed. The fees we receive are assessed by the affiliate marketing network after a sale is made by a shopper that originated on Shopping-Bargains.com. Payment to us are typically based on actual sales and assessed on a percentage or a flat fee basis as specified by the affiliate agreement.

Q: What are the requirements for placing links on your website? Do we get to specify where our links appear?
A: We only seek to list family-friendly stores as defined by our standards (no emphasis on alcohol, gambling, pornography, tobacco, hate, violence, etc.). Unless operating under a private agreement stating a specific placement, all link location decisions are made by Shopping-Bargains.com and subject to change without notice.

Q: What type of information do you require from us regarding sales?
A: We are strong advocates of privacy and do not want to know who buys anything from your site. The only information needed is the aggregate sales data required to administer the affiliate agreement. This is typically handled via a third-party affiliate marketing network which further insulates us from your sales data.

Q: What is the required duration for coupon placement? Are we able to modify run dates as well as offers?
A: While we are interested in long-term relationships with affiliate partners, there is no minimum or maximum duration for specific coupons. Unless automated based on prior arrangements, all placements are administered by Shopping-Bargains.com staff. Merchants are free to modify run dates and offer details provided they notify us in time to amend our published offers. We reserve the right to edit or not include content provided by merchants.

Q: Is there a restriction to the number of offers published? Do you base the number of coupons/discounts on the placement and number of links provided?
A: While we have no official "cutoff" number, we are essentially limited to what is reasonable based on our design templates, time constraints and customer considerations. We will not overload Shopping-Bargains.com with offers for one specific store; however, we do welcome a variety of coupons and bargains.