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Publisher Portal Earnings Reports

Wednesday, January 5th, 2011

year-of-the-rabbitThe Publisher Portal Earnings Reports seem to have scampered off to celebrate the start of the Year of the Rabbit…and has yet to return. We assure you that your traffic is being logged and that you will be credited for all good quality traffic, 2011 information is simply not yet displaying in the Publisher Portals. For those of you who receive email reporting, you are in the clear.

We expect to release a fix for this issue, allowing you to view all 2011 activity, Thursday, January 6th. Should you have any reporting needs in the interim, please feel free to contact us.

*PLEASE NOTE Since this post was published, the issue with the earnings reports has now been fixed. Feel free to contact us with any questions.

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Adding Payment Information to Your Publisher Account

Thursday, March 18th, 2010

Dear Publishers,

You may notice that when you have activated your Publisher acount, you are asked to provide your payment details.  We would like to point out that the green “Add Payment Info” button will not actually display on screen immediately.Adding Payment Information

Please do not be concerned as there is usually a slight delay on the button appearing. If you are still experiencing this issue and cannot add your payment details by the next day, contact a member of the Publisher team.

To add or update your details at a later date, please go to the My Account tab within the Publisher portal.

For any questions regarding payment, see our FAQs, Publisher blog or contact us.

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Wire Transfer Payments to Come Soon!

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009

For the time being the Shopzilla UK Publisher program offers PayPal as it’s method of payment. However, we’re pleased to let you know that we’re looking at adding wire transfers to our list. This means you will have more flexibility in terms of choosing how you get paid.

Acrrue your earnings now!

Acrrue your earnings now!

If you’ve been thinking about joining our program but would prefer a wire transfer system, don’t put off joining just yet as you can still profit from those clicks, especially in this busy online shopping season and start earning straightaway. You can accumulate these earnings from the very beginning and they will roll over every month, meaning they will never get lost! So, even if you’d like to wait to add your payment information, you can still watch your revenues increase.

We will keep you up-dated, as ever, on our Publisher blog so watch this space!

More info on earning money, and on payments in general.

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Earning Reports: new updates

Thursday, November 5th, 2009

Are you familiar with our estimated earnings, payments and balance reporting data?

We appreciate that being able to view your reports is extremely important, so lately we have made many improvements in order for you to get even more from this tab.

With this great update you will once again be able to view your daily estimated earnings both within the Publisher Portal ‘Home’ page reporting snapshot pod, and the more comprehensive ‘View Reports’ tool.

Thanks to improvements, the reporting tool is now even better!

Thanks to improvements, the reporting tool is now even better!

Notable Improvements:

  • ‘View Reports’ will allow you to view historic earnings data within a 24-month date range
  • Publishers previously unable to view estimated earnings data due to usage of Placement IDs above 99 will be able to view an aggregate total of their estimated earnings, currently labeled as ‘<not-yet-defined>’ (#)
  • The reports are also available for download in csv, xls and xml formats if you prefer to look at them off-line.
  • Not new but worth mentioning, check your payment history

Check out our other blog posts for information on how to measure the success of your traffic, understanding your payment and earnings reporting.

Any questions or queries, please do not hesitate to contact the Shopzilla UK team who will be happy to assist.

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Problems with Earning reports

Friday, August 21st, 2009

Hey Publishers. 

You have probably noticed by now that we are experiencing some technical difficulties with our earnings report.  We understand how frustrating it is to all of you who login to your accounts but are unable to view your clicks and earnings.  Please be assured that your traffic is being tracked accurately and that we are logging all impression, redirect and earnings data in our database.

This is a very high priority problem and our team are currently working on rebuilding the entire earnings report structure. In the meantime, please feel free to contact us if you need a certain report, and we can manually pull it from the system for you. To request an earning report please contact Diana Scharpenberg at dscharpenberg@shopzilla.com

We thank you all very much for your patience and understanding while we work through this issue.

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SmartPricing

Wednesday, August 12th, 2009

To us here at Shopzilla it’s very important that we send quality traffic to our merchants. We closely monitor the quality of all traffic sources.  It would be unfair if the poor sources were subsidised by the better sources, which is why our SmartPricing is in place. It is a system designed to give well-performing Publishers an incentive to reach the maximum CPC rate possible with Shopzilla.

Do you know what smartpricing is?

Do you know what smartpricing is?

What exactly is SmartPricing?

SmartPricing is a model employed by Shopzilla to ensure the sending of high quality traffic to our hundreds of merchants. The clicks to merchants are adjusted according to a publisher’s overall traffic performance.  This means that the amount we charge a merchant for each click will be based on the publisher’s overall traffic quality.

We evaluate the quality of traffic from our distribution partners by measuring the conversion rate; the merchants’ click charges may be discounted based on the value of that traffic.

SmartPricing will be applied if your traffic quality does not meet our expectations. So if your traffic quality concerns us then we’ll inform you before we make any adjustments to your SmartPricing, and try to work with you to help ensure higher quality.

Don’t forget that if you continuously send us quality traffic (visitors who buy/are likely to buy products on the merchants’ sites) we will review your SmartPricing banding and may increase it so that you receive higher revenue for your efforts.

Using our affiliate program there are a few steps that you can take to ensure the highest quality traffic:

  1. Ensure that the BizRate content which is displayed is relevant to the content on your site.
  2. Try linking to BizRate rather than to merchants directly (if you are not already using this method)
  3. Geo-target BizRate content to UK-sourced traffic only.

As the Shopzilla’s affiliate program is based on sharing revenue, if you earn less, we earn less; so it’s in our best interests to help you increase your traffic quality. Although your potential earnings may drop if we have to make SmartPricing adjustments, this does not mean your Rev-Share percentage has changed.

If you would like any further information regarding smartpricing or this blog post, please send your queries through the Contact Us tab at the top of the page.

UK Shopzilla Publisher team

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Payment information needed in order to get paid

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009

Just successfully activated your Shopzilla Publisher account and eager to start earning money? That’s great and you can start earning revenue immediately by choosing your ad from a large selection of shopping content and pasting the HTML code onto your site, it’s that simple.

We do encourage you  not to forget to enter your payment information sooner rather than later.  As we don’t ask for this information during the registration process, we know from experience that people tend to forget to enter these.  It’s important because we wouldn’t know where  and who to send the money to.

When trying to enter your payment information as the first thing you do on the portal, you may find that the  button “Enter your payment details” in the account section will be missing which makes it impossible to enter any payment information. This is not a technical issue on our portal.  Note: It may take 20-30 minutes from the time of your account activation for us to fully complete your account processing and enable you to enter your payment information. After this short time, you won’t encounter this problem anymore.

In the meantime, please don’t worry and feel free to start exploring our different banners and searchboxes.

Once your account is fully activated, the “Payment Information” section is fully loaded and you will be able to see the green “Add Payment Info” button.

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If you have any other questions regarding the payment process please check out our dedicated payments & reporting section on the blog. You can also always contact us, if there are any questions.

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Understanding Effectivness and Evaluating Success

Wednesday, July 15th, 2009
How to measure the success of your affiliate programs

How to measure the success of your affiliate programs

Your statistics table provides you with very important information: how many impressions your ad received and how many clicks those ads generated. It divides clicks into impressions to tell you your clickthrough rate — the percentage of people who see the ad and click on it. The number of impressions your ads receive depends on the marketing of your site. The number of clicks the ads receive will depend on a whole load of other factors, including:

  • How closely does the subject of the ad match your content?
  • Where is the ad unit placed on the page?
  • How well is it optimized?
  • And even the type of users who visit your site (targeting)

Much of your job will always be to get all of these factors right to push your clickthrough rate up as high as possible.

After the clickthrough rate comes your most important piece of information: the amount you’ve actually earned.

The eCPC and eCPM can be a bit confusing. The eCPC is the amount of money you are “effectively” earning per click, and the eCPM is the amount that you are earning on average for every thousand impressions.

Since  Shopzilla’s affiliate program does not necessarily give you money every time someone clicks on one of your ads, you might think it’s difficult to compare it against other advertising programs, but actually it isn’t: AdSense reports, for example, will tell you also exactly how much you’re earning for each click on an ad unit. That’s when eCPC and your eCPM stats come to play:  those two values will enable you to weigh Shopzilla Publisher against other affiliate programs (regardless of whether it is CPC, CPA, CPM, etc), in this example compare it to AdSense.

It’s only when you’re able to compare like for like that you’ll know what to do. Shopzilla’s provision of the equivalent earnings in CPC and CPM rates make those comparisons much easier!

Read more about earning reports in our affiliate program.

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Generating Clicks but Not Revenue

Friday, March 27th, 2009
Generating clicks but Not revenue

Generating clicks but NOT revenue

Looking at your reports you might have wondered why you have generated a lot of clicks, but you don’t see any revenue generated.

Being an affiliate using the Shopzilla Publisher Program, you make money online on a per-click basis. However, if your website visitors click on a Shopzilla ad on your website, but then, do not click on a product listed on a Shopzilla site, Shopzilla does not pay affiliates for those clicks. While this may occur from time-to-time, we encourage you consider your ‘effective Earnings per Click’ (eCPC) based on a meaningful sample of click activity (such as 500 – 1000 clicks).

Revenue generating activity occurs when the users you refer to Shopzilla redirect from product offer listings to the online retailer listing those product offers.

Learn more about earning reports or how to use placement IDs to see which ads perform the best.

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When do I get paid by Shopzilla’s Publisher Program?

Friday, March 20th, 2009

Earning money online wit the UK Shopzilla Publisher Program

Earning money online with the UK Shopzilla Publisher Program

Were you wondering when your payment will arrive? We pay our Publishers on a on a monthly schedule. If your account balance reaches £50.00 in any month, we will send your payment before the end of the following month, provided there are no holds on your account. If you haven’t accumulated £50.00 in a single month, your earnings will be carried over to the following month, till you reach the £50.00 threshold. As soon as you reached the threshold or more we pay you out. Payday is the 25th of the month after the Publisher’s account balance has reached at least £50 and the money should be in your account 3 days later at the latest.

You can track your performance and earnings from the Reports tab of your account. Reports will display day-to-day details about how much you’re earning from the Shopzilla Publisher Program*. Find out more on how to understand earning reports.

Once you’ve qualified for a payment and your payment has been made, you’ll see it listed on this also in the reporting tab choosing payment report option.

Shopzilla Publisher - view-reports

At the moment we are only able to pay you via PayPal. Anyone with an email address can use PayPal to receive money online. If you don’t have a PayPal account yet, and would like to manage your payments this way, click here to sign up. If you are a Publisher VAT registered in the UK, the payment process is slightly different. Read more about payment process for Publishers who are VAT registered in the UK

*All Publisher earnings are subject to validation and adjustments. Portal reported earnings should only be considered as an estimate. Publishers should consult the Shopzilla, Inc. Publisher Program Terms & Conditions for more information.

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