Network FAQs

What is Prosperent?

Prosperent simplifies affiliate marketing and brings it to the mainstream audience. We manage merchant relationships, aggregate and clean datafeeds, and offer tools that make accessing that data as easy as possible. We help merchants and publishers maximize earnings. Over the past 12 months we have driven over $30 million in sales to our retail partners. We average over 2 billion requests per month to our 3 core tools.

How does it work?

Prosperent offers 3 core tools, each of these provides a simple, profitable way for our publishers to drive higher quality, converting traffic to our merchants.

Performance Ads:

Our Performance Ads are placed on a publishers site by copying and pasting a small piece of javascript. We are then able to analyze content and user behavior, determining which products from our partner merchants are most likely to interest the visitor. We then deliver a highly targeted product ad that when clicked, leads to one of our merchants web sites. Where traditional banner ads detract from the appearance and user experience of a web site, Performance Ads augment content and provide exactly what visitors are interested in.

ProsperLinks:

Designed for developers, our api gives lightning fast access to our catalog of over 50 million products from over 2,000 merchants. Find shopping trends by using our trends api, fire off queries for products, or get coupons from our merchants, all in real-time.

Prosperent API:

Which Merchants and Networks do you work with?

We currently work with over 2,000 of the top retailers online. Brands like Zappos, REI, Overstock, and Best Buy just to name a few. Prosperent aggregates datafeeds from merchants at Commission Junction, Google Affiliate Network, Link Share, Pepperjam Network, Link Connector, and Avantlink.

What type of publisher sites do you work with?

Prosperent works with thousands of publishers from blogs to content networks to national newspaper sites.

Are there any Quality Checks for sites Prosperent approves?

We have a strict approval process because we want quality publishers in our network that add value to our merchants and the entire affiliate ecosystem!

When a publisher applies, we vet each site and only approve those that meet our standards and qualify under merchant terms. Because we hold the power of aggregating so many merchants, we have to be responsible with who we allow to use our service, so we only approve sites that merchants would approve themselves. Our Terms of Service prohibit PPC trademark bidding, sensitive content (certain types of ‘adult’ content, for example), and Content that is likely unsuitable for affiliate marketing (like political, or religious content).

Does Prosperent offer transparency to networks?

Yes, each click sent to our merchants includes a unique SID for tracking purposes. If at any time a merchant or network related violation should take place, we are able to trace the click or commission back to an individual publisher and remove them from the network, or from a specific merchants program. We take network quality seriously.

How well does your traffic convert?

For banner ads, Google Adsense sets the standard. Here is how we stack up according to a recent report they released: http://mashable.com/2011/08/19/google-click-through-rates-fell-in-2010-study/