Jan
Has HostGator Launched a Sweet Affiliate Program?
A few days ago I was thinking about high-paying affiliate programs after doing some reading about high PPC bids. I gave it a little thought but it wasn’t until just now that I found a very lucrative affiliate program (if I play my cards right.)
How lucrative? $2500 lucrative!
Good thing Vic posted about it instead of doing his TV dinner video!
This is when it would come in handy to have a site like HoustonJobs.com (HostGator is based there,) but I do have a number of connections down south that may help.
If you have any job or career related sites, or anything to do with Houston, you might be able to make some referrals and pocket a cool $2500.
Just be careful if you have a free job posting site. It was rumored that HostGator didn’t pay its regular affiliates who were operating free web hosting sites. (Biased against freebie seekers?)
However, that rumor could have started due to people trying to scam HostGator in the first place, in which case it’s a good thing they didn’t pay up.
Come to think of it, anytime an affiliate complains about not getting paid, it’s usually because they were trying to scam the affiliate program or doing something stupid.
So like I said in the beginning, if you want a big commission, this could be just the ticket!
Update: Back to the opportunity at hand…
I’m getting a few vague ideas in my head, but I’m kind of busy, so I want to post some ideas and maybe someone else can try them.
The first thing to keep in mind is that you have to refer someone to HostGator on your own by filling out a referral form before your referral goes in for an interview. That referral form is how they’ll track everything (there aren’t typical affiliate links for this.)
So if you’re paying attention so far, you will have realized that you need to have a relationship with your referral (at least enough to get their name, email, and phone number.) Along the same lines, you can’t just run some PPC ads direct to the Hostgator job application.
Which means… you have to collect their information!
You also have to wait and hope that your referral gets hired and stays employed for 90 days. Whew!
So what you need to do is set up your own job placement network. To make it quicker, it could be targeted to just Windows administrators. (Or Linux admins or whatever, but there are already sites like linux-jobs.com.) Then you market like normal to these potential employees and get them to come to your site and fill in a form with their name, email, and phone. Then you hand-submit the referrals to HostGator via the referral form.
That’s just one idea and it could be done in a variety of ways. There are other ways, too, but just remember, if you want a $2500 commission you have to take this seriously. Or I guess you could spam CraigsList!
Good luck! 
(and by “good luck” I mean “I hope you don’t actually promote this because I’d rather keep the money to myself!”)
P.S. What would be sweet is if any super affiliate bloggers pushed this offer and published their results and/or strategies online… 
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Shoot I am still trying to figure out how to work it. But the pay out is just stupid money but having a friendship with Justin I have known for a while that HG is trying to get people and it has not been easy so it makes sense, now I just need to figure out how to make it work where I can get some of that cash.
I suppose there are already alot of people trying this now.
I will just let it pass, and let the experts like vic do their job.
Hostgator has been one ammazing affiliate program that many wemasters have bene suing of ruqiet sometime and this new feature is surely going to increase its popularity more in the market
I’ve found that Hostgator seems to charge back quite a bit with their affiliate program.
Just a heads up.
I didn’t get paid for a legitimate referal, my own sister. I am truly upset.
@malgal
That’s what I was afraid of. Did your sister work there 90 days already and fulfill all the other requirements?
Be honest and you are usually paid for your effort. This is quite true with most affiliate programs. – Rif Chia
I thought about checking out hostgator but because it doesn’t appear any of the words HostGator are hyperlinked, I just went there directly and looked around.
When you write a blog post about something you can make money from, you may want to think about putting a clear hyperlink to it. Just a suggestion.
On my blog, the hyperlinks don’t always show clearly so I bold them for the ease of my readers.
Have a great day!!
Manish
@Sweet SMS
There are links to all the relevant pages for the HostGator referral program in the article, and one is in bold
Host Gator affiliate blows. We referred several of our clients to Host Gator via their affiliate link. Within the day, all the clients sent us their ftp info so we could begin transferring websites. None of the sales showed up in our stats, so I sent an email to support.
While my ticket was handled promptly, I was told all the clients were referred by another affiliate.
We will no longer refer clients to Host Gator, as I feel their affiliate program is shoddily built, and their system is garbage. The support guy came across as kind of a dickhead, and I don’t recommend anyone use Host Gator’s affiliate program.
Thanks for the input Jim!
Can i refer myself? I am a computer engineer and it would be awesome to earn from referral as well as the job.
Indeed, hostgator’s program is one of the sweetest. Most of the hosting programs provide very good commissions and they are very useful as well. That’s its importance. But we need to know more about affiliate marketing and SEO.
I have promoted Hostgator for half a year. And I do make some cash with them but this niche is so over saturated that it is very hard to make a lot of money unless you own a very high traffic hosting niche targeted website.
I read this with excitement as I actually use and enjoy Hostgator for some websites, though I have also heard dreadful stories. But, what a pain…
I’ve been with Hostgator for 3 years and have no complaints. There was one time where I had issues and I couldn’t figure out what was going on. I contacted them through their support center and got my issue resolved very quickly. I’m a fan!
i think hostgator is such a great company. i have been with them for 2 years and i have no complaints. they definitely have a good affiliate to deal with.
host gator does an awesome job. i have been with them for 1 year and no complaints.