The WP Engine affiliate program can be quite lucrative if you decide to promote this WordPress hosting company. WP Engine is a hosting platform that specialises in WordPress hosting and nothing else. They’ve cut their virtual teeth on providing one of the very best hosting services in the world for WordPress websites and they have built and refined their servers and architecture to match. Everything they do is based on quality, customer service, allowing businesses running WordPress to get optimum performance out of their websites.
If you are an affiliate marketer that promotes anything at all to do with hosting or internet marketing, then you might want to consider jumping on board with this affiliate program.
WP Engine Offer Generous Commissions
It can be pretty demotivating trying to sell products that either start with a free trial or offer commissions below $10. These commissions might be okay if they occur month to month, but as a one off payment it’s not much.
WP Engine offer a minimum commission of $200 USD. In fact, it can prove to be considerably higher depending on the hosting package purchased and be as high as $7500 for a single sale! That’s massive. These are one off commissions and not recurring every month, but definitely right up there in the sphere of great payouts.
And it’s not like WP Engine charge the earth for every hosting package either. The cheapest plan starts at just $29 a month. Sell one of those and you make a cool and easy $200. Someone buys a higher plan and your commission goes up.
All sales go through the affiliate umbrella of ShareASale, and ShareASale are the ones that pay out the commissions around the 20th of the month following sales (make sales in May, get paid in June).
Cookies Last For 180 Days
So long as a potential candidate doesn’t clear their cache, WP Engine referral cookies stay valid for 6 months. That way if someone clicks through on your link but doesn’t buy a hosting plan right away, you will still get credited with the commission when they do buy. Compare that to Amazon’s affiliate program which only offers a lousy 24 hour time period and a starting commission of just 4%.
A 2 Tier Affiliate Program
When you refer other affiliates to the WP Engine affiliate program you will make a further $50 on every sale they make. This doesn’t come out of their commissions. They still make the minimum of $200. The $50 is just another bonus for promoting this lucrative program.
Imagine referring another marketer who has a big following or a massive email list and they start selling package after package. You’ll be raking in $50 a pop just for sending them to WP Engine’s affiliate program. Now that’s true passive income and it’s awesome.
Let’s think about some possibilities. Sign up one or two affiliates than pull in 10 sales a month each and you’ve made a grand while sitting on the beach or doing whatever. Sign up even more active affiliates as well as making your own sales and the sky could be the limit as far as your income potential is concerned.
And There’s More…
WP Engine have introduced a very healthy bonus system for all affiliates. Sell 5 packages in a month and earn an extra $100 on top of your commissions. Bonuses increase the more hosting plans you sell and the bonuses accumulate; meaning you don’t lose the $100 bonus because you reach the next bonus level. It’s added onto your bonuses.
Check out the chart below for a visual on how the bonuses work.
Conclusion
WP Engine are really keen to help affiliates promote their WordPress hosting platform. That’s the reason they are offering lucrative commissions, 180 day cookies, a 2 tier affiliate system and bonuses. It really is worth promoting, and it’s a quality hosting platform as well, so you won’t be promoting anything dodgy just to make a quick buck.
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That is a pretty impressive compensation scheme from WordPress, as well as that there are few other things to note like the 180 day cookies.which I don’t think there are too many other affiliate programs which offer that.
The 2nd tier affiliate program for referring other affiliates to plus the bonus system for all affiliates on top of this makes for quite a lucrative scheme that is all legitimate and a rare find as well.
Hi Adrian,
The affiliate program actually doesn’t have anything to do with the WordPress company. It’s run by WordPress hosting specialists, WP Engine. It’s definitely worth signing up for and promoting.