Earn Commission for Referrals

As an affiliate, you will earn 20% on all successful referrals to memberships and digital courses. For instance, if you refer a new lifetime PRO member and they pay $495 for the membership, you will earn $99 as a commission.

Note that at this time there are no referral commissions on service credits or packages.

We pay affiliate commissions quarterly, usually in the first week of the new quarter. Blog Marketing Academy has a 30-day money back guarantee, so we only pay commissions that are 30 days or older. All affiliate commissions are paid via PayPal. The minimum payout balance is $100 (USD).

Referral Cookie Lifetime

When a customer clicks on your affiliate link, a cookie is set on their browser that tracks your referral. That cookie is stored for 14 days after the click. If the customer purchases on a different browser, or after the 14 days, the referral will not be awarded to you. If you are aware of a sale that didn’t get assigned to you, let us know and we will assign it to you.

Refunds and Revoked Payments

Only referrals that are older than 30 days and are still in good standing (not refunded) will be included with the payout. If a payment has been refunded or revoked, we do not pay commission for the referral. We reserve the right to reject affiliate commissions for any reason. Normally, rejections for commission happen for two reasons:

  • The sale that generated the commission has been refunded
  • The referral method violated our policies (details below) or the spirit of our policies

Affiliate Program Policies

Approved Promotional Methods

Essentially: promotional methods should add value to Blog Marketing Academy, and we will end up paying you more commissions!

Examples of good promotional methods:

  • Refer members or subscribers to BMA – You may promote our courses and membership to your existing email list.
  • Write a blog post or review
  • Link to any of our blog posts using your affiliate code – You can generate a referral link to any URL on this site (including any blog post) and include it as backlinks in your blog content. If that reader ends up purchasing anything, you’ll get the credit.
  • Share on social networks – Send out tweets to your Twitter followers with your affiliate link. Share on Facebook. As long as you’re not spamming them, that’s a great way to get referrals.
  • Help others online – That’s the name of the game, to help others solve problems.

Prohibited Promotional Methods

Affiliate programs are win-wins: you get to promote a product that you like and believe in, we make sales, and you make money from the commission.

  • Coupon sites are not allowed as a promotional method.
  • Pretending to be formally associated with Blog Marketing Academy. Affiliates are not employees, have no formal connection with the business.
  • Any form of spam. Email, link spamming, comment spamming, etc. will not be allowed. If you’re posting to a forum or comment thread, follow the rules of the website you’re on. If you’re emailing a list, it must be a list that the subscribers knowingly opted in for and must be relevant to the topics covered at the Blog Marketing Academy.
  • Anything illegal, or morally offensive. That’s subjective, we know. Still, if we don’t like it for any reason, you’ll be banned from the program. This includes spam, for whatever definition of spam we want to use. It is our judgement.
  • Confusing customers into thinking your site is operated or endorsed by Blog Marketing Academy.

Paid Search Guidelines

If you bid on keywords in any search engines or social media site like Google, Yahoo, Bing, Twitter, and Facebook:

  • Don’t bid to have your ad appear for terms with variations of Blog Marketing Academy name.
  • Don’t bid to have your ad appear for Blog Marketing Academy with any additional terms, such as “
  • Blog Marketing Academy coupons”, “Blog Marketing Academy discounts”, “Blog Marketing Academy promotions”. Broad matches are also not allowed (“[Blog Marketing Academy coupon]”)
  • Don’t use blogmarketingacademy.com or any other Blog Marketing Academy website URL as the ad’s display URL
  • Don’t direct link to blogmarketingacademy.com from any paid search ads. Instead, link to a landing page that users will then click through to access blogmarketingacademy.com

Bad Behavior Honeypot

If you are trying to find loopholes in this agreement, it means you’re trying to violate the spirit of the agreement, which is against the rules.

Consequences of Bad Behavior

If we find your promotional methods to be not in keeping with these terms, we will reject commissions and disable your affiliate account (and probably your entire member account). We will likely notify you when this occurs and let you know what we find to be in violation of these policies. We may not, though, if the case is just glaringly obvious.

Other Stuff

By being an affiliate, you agree that your commissions are subject to approval before being paid. This affiliate agreement is not a contract. The affiliate relationship does not represent a formal agreement. You are not an employee of Blog Marketing Academy or PC Media, Inc.. You agree not to be a jerk and sue PC Media, Inc.. These terms are subject to change without notice. And other legalese-y stuff that you normally see here. Don’t let this stuff scare you: we want to reward you for referring members to Blog Marketing Academy! Thanks for being awesome, and good job reading the full agreement 🧡