How it works
How we choose products, how commissions flow, and the honest limits of "automated" affiliate income.
1. There is no global bestseller list
No marketplace publishes a single authoritative chart of the world's top-selling products. We rely on the closest valid proxies:
- Amazon Best Sellers — hourly, ranked by real-time sales velocity.
- eBay completed-listing data — what actually sold, not just what's listed.
- Category-level market-value figures — for broader demand context.
These are demand signals, not definitive rankings — and we're upfront about that.
2. We score opportunities, not just popularity
Every candidate is scored across seven dimensions:
- Demand — are enough people actually buying it?
- Commission rate — what % does the category pay?
- Cookie duration — how long does the tracking window last?
- Buyer intent — are clicks from people ready to buy, or just browsing?
- Content potential — can we write a genuinely useful guide?
- Competition — how crowded is this category already?
- Return risk — high-return products erase commissions.
A product can be wildly popular and still be a poor affiliate opportunity if commissions are low, cookies are short, or returns are high.
3. How commissions actually flow
Affiliate marketing is performance-based — we earn only when a click leads to a qualifying purchase:
- We publish content with tracked links.
- You click a link and complete a qualifying purchase.
- The vendor pays us a percentage of the sale.
- Amazon's cookie lasts 24 hours (90 days for items added to cart).
- Amazon pays 1–10% depending on the product category.
We earn nothing if no purchase happens — traffic and trust are the real bottlenecks.
4. Where automation helps — and where it doesn't
Automation powers:
- Research — scheduled Best Sellers rank tracking.
- Link management — affiliate tags kept current.
- Compliance — disclosures auto-injected on every page.
- Analytics — what's working, what isn't.
It cannot:
- Manufacture traffic.
- Guarantee program approval.
- Fabricate reviews.
- Promise commissions.
Anyone selling a fully "passive commission machine" is overselling — or proposing non-compliant tactics.