Merchants : Overview

Everyone from merchants to affiliates sees nothing but benefits through their association with Affiliates Drive. The best part of your alliance with Affiliates Drive is that there is no setup cost on Affiliates Drive as against the other networks that have a starting setup fee.

If you already have a large number of banner and text affiliates for your store, chances are that most affiliates does not optimize your data feed as expected to generate the desired results. Affiliates Drive solves this problem by optimization of your data feed through Affiliates Drive. Register with us to experience the same.

What Does Affiliates Drive do for merchants?

Affiliates Drive can significantly increase the reach of merchants, the efficiency of acquiring new publishers, and the strength of your publisher relationships.

• Increased Reach. Affiliates Drive can increase the reach of merchants by instantly bringing hundreds or thousands of publishers to your network. With Affiliates Drive, publishers can add new affiliate networks to their web site in just a few clicks. They simply apply to your merchants through the Affiliates Drive management interface and their ad tag settings are changed on the fly, for instant access to your affiliate network.

• Increased Efficiency. Eliminate the hassles of faxing or emailing merchants agreements back and forth. With one simple click, publishers who use Affiliates Drive can review your merchant’s terms of service and sign up for your merchants. You no longer need to invest time and people in managing the process of signing up publishers. You can focus on building even more publisher relationships and growing your business instead.

• Improved Publisher Relationships. Enjoy better, longer relationships with publishers when you acquire them through Affiliates Drive. With Affiliates Drive you have a life long, value-based relationship with the publisher where the amount of inventory you receive is based on the value you provide to that publisher. It’s a win-win for you and the publisher and ensures a longer lasting, deeper relationship.

How Does Affiliates Drive Work?

Affiliates Drive is a meta Affiliate feed server. It sits between web site publishers and discrete merchants to provide intelligent services that optimize the ad style and merchants chosen for a particular ad on a publisher’s web page. These intelligent services can dramatically increase the reach of your merchants and the eCPM that your network achieves.

• Add your merchants to Affiliates Drive. Publishers who use Affiliates Drive have a choice of multiple merchants to consider when a particular ad tag is served. You can work with Affiliates Drive to make your ad network one of the options for Publishers.

• Publishers Use Affiliates Drive Ad Tags. Publishers use Affiliates Drive ad tags for their web sites. Using the Affiliates Drive management interface, publishers can specify which merchants they want to consider when a particular ad is served. Adding an additional affiliate network does not require the publisher to change their server-side ad tags. They can simply update their ad tag parameters via the Affiliates Drive management interface and changes are reflected immediately.

How Do I Get Started?

It’s easy for merchants to get started with Affiliates Drive. We simply need a business development contact and an engineering contact. Once you have identified those, we can typically create integration between Affiliates Drive and your merchants in a week’s time. At the end of the week, you’ll have instant access to all of Affiliates Drive’s publishers, who can help increase the reach of your merchants and your merchants eCPMs.