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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