Affiliate Control Panel Instruction Guide
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By Pulsar Marketing
Published on 03/21/2011
Use our banners and textual links to send traffic to our optimized campaign landing pages to earn per lead/sale commissions. Additionally, you can earn 5%, bonus 2nd tier commissions through affiliate referrals.
Learn All About...
- Using Our Links in Paid Search
- Statistical Reporting (Clicks, Leads, Sales)
- Requirements to get Paid
- When You can Expect Payment
- What You Earn Commissions for?
- What Pages/Links are Commissionable?
- Getting Approved for Campaigns
- Fraudulent Clicks/Leads
- Updating Your Info and Adding URLs
- What Marketing is Forbidden? Email?
- Affiliate Referral Program Bonus Revenue
- How Not to have Your Account Suspended
- Review of Terms
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Using our links in Paid Search Engine placement/bidding:
NOTE: For Paid Link Placements, do not bid on nor include copyrighted terms such as "CreditFederal.com", "Visa", and "MasterCard" in your paid ad. When using copyrighted words on your website, include the copyright tag.
Some search engines may not permit affiliate link URLs. For those that do, you can easily obtain the "hyperlink" URL through your affiliate control panel. Click on the "Campaigns" link at the top of your affiliate control panel. On the next page, click on "View All" from the menu on the left. Select the campaign you desire, and click on "details". Choose a banner or text link by clicking on "subscribe". The next page will show you a search engine URL, as well as banner/text link codes. Simply use the search engine link as the link for the search engine to send traffic to, and use Text Link words for your ad description.
Search engine bidding/placement is entirely at your financial risk. Refer to the terms of each campaign for details on how/when you will be rewarded a commission. If the payout is "per lead" or "per sale", you earn a commission when visitors click-through from the search engine and submit valid applications at client websites. We do not reward 'per-click' commissions unless such is explicitly written on a campaign's details.
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Statistical Reporting
How clicks, leads and sales are reported:
Clicks: All clicks/page views are tracked live and instantly without delay. Our software reports clicks to the Landing Pages, as well as clicks on each specific offer. If; for example, you send a visitor to our Credit Card Landing Page, and the visitor clicks on a card offer, our statistics will report the click to the Landing Page, and will report the card offer click as well. Also, if the visitor views other commissionable pages, that clicks will likewise be reported in your statistics.
Clicks/Page Views are reported as "New" and "Repeat".
"New" - these are clicks/page views from unique visitors (not from the same IP address).
"Repeat" - these are clicks/page views from the same visitor (repeat IP address).
Leads: Lead reporting varies. Generally, leads are confirmed within 2 days, but could take up to 60 days for some offers.
Sales: Sale reporting varies. Generally, sales are confirmed within 2 days, but could take up to 60 days.
Our system also gives live reporting of Impressions, and is reported as "Impr un" and "Impr". Impressions are the 'display' of our links on your web site.
"Impr un" - these are impressions generated by unique visitors (not from the same IP address).
"Impr" - these are impressions generated by the same visitor via your web site.
Reversals: Invalid leads/sales will be reversed. Examples:
*Duplicate application from the same person.
*Non-qualified applicant, such as a non-US person applying for a loan that is only available to US citizens.
*Bogus information typed in the application.
*Non-live lead submission, or lead information entered by a person other than the named applicant.
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Getting Paid
Payments are disbursed by the end of the month for the preceding month's commissions, provided the total amount is at least $10.00. If the amount is less than $10.00, the commissions will be carried forward to the following month(s) until the $10.00 minimum is obtained. Affiliates receive a mailed check payment from Pulsar Marketing Incorporated. In some select circumstances at our discretion, we may send payments via PayPal.
IMPORTANT: Be sure your address is correct on your affiliate info.
The requirements below are to ensure proper accounting of all funds in accordance with U.S. regulations, to ensure you receive your earned commissions, and to promote quality services by verifying affiliate identities.
* You must provide a valid Social Security/Federal Tax ID Number, and a signed W9 in order to receive commission payments.
To obtain a W9, go to www.irs.ustreas.gov/pub/irs-pdf/fw9.pdf
Mail (do not fax nor email) W9 forms to:
Pulsar Marketing Inc
16033 N Big Hill
Gulfport, MS 39503
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When do I get Paid?
To find out the next payout date, click on the "Payout Date" menu option in your Affiliate Control Panel.
Payments are disbursed by the end of the month for the preceding month's commissions, provided the total amount is at least $10.00. If the amount is less than $10.00, the commissions will be carried forward to the following month(s) until the $10.00 minimum is obtained. Affiliates receive a mailed check payment from Pulsar Marketing Incorporated.
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What Pages/Links do I get paid for?
You get paid for leads generated on any of the program landing pages, even those you don't directly link to! For example: If you link to the personal loan page and a consumer clicks on your link, but then the consumer decides to go to the credit card page instead and submits the card offer application, you would still earn that commission! Program landing pages are those with a URL in this format:

Below is a sample program landing page. The two purple boxes indicate all the pages which will track your clicks and leads for all programs on those pages, even for pages which you don't link to!

NOTE: There are two small text links (as shown in the red box above) on each affiliate landing page which go to areas of our site that do not award you with commissions. In the solid blue bar across the bottom of each page are two text links, one to our home page and the other to our privacy policy page. These textual links are very small and will likely be ignored by your visitors.
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Getting Approved for Campaigns
When you "subscribe" to a particular section of Credit Federal, the next page will tell you if you were automatically approved or if your website must first be reviewed. If you subscribe to a section but get rejected, this may indicate that your web site content is not suitable for the particular offer, or the offer is already receiving large volumes of traffic, or perhaps the offer will soon expire.
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Fraudulent Clicks/Leads, and Fraudulent Affiliate Referrals:
We do not permit incentive advertising of our programs. All clicks/leads must come directly from actual customers, and without reward (profit sharing, gifts or other incentives) to the customer.
Affiliates are not permitted to personally type applicant data into client applications.
Fraudulent clicks/leads, or "lead uploading", can and will be subject to account termination and forfeiture of any and all earned commissions.
Fraudulent affiliate referrals; including but not limited to, registering yourself or another member of your household as an affiliate for the purpose of generating a signup bonus and/or 2nd tier commissions, will result in account termination and forfeiture of any and all commissions.
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Updating Your Information and Adding URLs
Ensure your Pay To information, address, site content and URLs are correct.
Login to your affiliate account, and click on the "Personal" link at the top left. More links will appear on the left to update "Payment", "Content", and "Info". If you change your Pay To information, be sure to make the changes to your "Info" section as well as to your "Payment" section. Also be sure you list all your URLs which you have our banners/links posted. When adding new URLs, separate each URL with a comma and no spaces. For example: mysite1.com,mysite2.com,mysite3.com
If you change your Pay-To information, before you can receive your next payout you will need to submit a new W9 with the updated information.
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What Marketing is Forbidden? Is Email OK?
Affiliates may only use 'approved' marketing material. Affiliates may not alter, modify, nor create their own banners or textual links unless authorization is given from Pulsar Marketing Inc via written correspondence (or email), or if a campaign explicity states that such is permitted. Some words may require the copyright/trademark to appear next to them.
We do not allow offering web site visitors any incentives for clicking on links nor for applying for products/services.
Be sure you list all the web site URLs in your affiliate account in which you will be placing links to Credit Federal. The only exception is for search engine marketing. Otherwise, leads/sales generated via 'unassigned' URLs may not be credited.
If you perform Email marketing, you may only include our links in an email list you exclusively own, and which you exclusively obtained. You may not market our links via a 'rented' or 'purchased' email list. Additionally, your email subscription must require double opt-in confirmation, and provide subscribers with an immediate opt-out (not a waiting period for removal).
Prior to emailing our links to your subscriber list, you must:
*Send us a preview for our approval via our Contact/Support form in your affiliate control panel.
*Give us the URL of your subscription opt-in (where you obtain subscribers).
High traffic web site? If you have a high traffic web site (5,000 or more visitors per day), We can provide you with a subscription service for your visitors. Our subscription service has double opt-in, single opt-out, plus allows HTML and Text emails. For more information, use our support form available in your affiliate control panel.
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Do I get paid for all campaigns on all program pages?
Yes, if you 'Subscribe' to each of our campaign landing pages, you can earn commissions for all offers listed on all those pages, even if you do not send traffic directly to those pages.
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Affiliate Referral Program
You can also earn 5% 2nd tier commissions as well as an affiliate referral bonus! All Landing Pages contain an "Affiliate" link which automatically embeds your referral affiliate ID number. Hence, when affiliates register, they are tagged in your downline. For each approved affiliate, you earn a cash bonus plus 5% 2nd tier commissions for all their leads/sales (once the referred affiliate reaches a minimum of $50.00 in commissions). You may also promote our affiliate program solely without advertising our products and services. When you login to your affiliate control panel, click on the "Affiliates" link at the top, then choose the "Get referral links" option on the left-hand menu. You can use banners or textual links.
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How Not to get Suspended:
We have the easiest requirements to earn revenue and to maintain an active affiliate account. By following our Terms and minimum account requirements, you can avoid suspension without remuneration. The more vital requirements are:
*Keep your account information (phone number, email address, URLs, etc) updated. We must be able to reach you by both phone and by email. If; for example, we send you an email and you fail to respond; either because the email address was bogus, or is one you rarely check, or you simply ignored our correspondence, your account may be terminated at our discretion. The same applies to attempted telephone contacts. We don't expect you to sit by your phone or to watch your email 24 hours a day, but we do expect you to respond to our concerns in an expeditious manner as time is of the essence in the internet marketing world. Subsequently, you can be assured of our equally expeditious responses to your concerns.
*Adhere to our terms: Do not violate copyrights, place our links only on approved websites, search engines and mailing lists. *Approved are those that meet our Terms (no racial, adult, etc content, no spamming and so forth). Also, do not manually submit leads you had collected through other means. All traffic must be live, direct from the applicant.
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TERMS & CONDITIONS