About Get Paid Reviews
• How Get Paid Reviews Works
• Impressions Earned Per Visitor
• Banner Ad Rotation
• Base Impression Value and Earning Ad Impressions
• Sample Co-Branded Site
• Request a "Get Paid" Program for Get Paid Reviews website?


How Get Paid Reviews Works
When someone visits Get Paid Reviews through your affiliate link, your information is automatically loaded from our database and associated with the visitor for as long as they surf this site.

If the visitor arrived without following an affiliate link, one of our affiliates is chosen at random from the database and associated with the visitor.

Then, when the visitor reads reviews of "Get Paid" programs, the 'Visit Website' and 'More Information' links are automatically set to the affiliate links you've indicated on the Edit Program Links page.

If you haven't specified a link for a particular program, another affiliate's link is chosen at random from our database for that program. This way, no matter which program a visitor joins, one of our affiliates gets credit and adds that person to their downline.

But, in addition to helping you build downlines more quickly and easily than ever before, Get Paid Reviews also credits you with advertising impressions for every visitor you send through your affiliate link. You can then use these impressions to display your own banner ads on the Get Paid Reviews network.

The number of impressions you earn per visitor is calculated every hour based on current traffic to the Get Paid Reviews web site. You can see how much you'll earn for each visitor you send through your affiliate link at the top of the right hand column in the affiliates table.



Impressions Earned Per Visitor
The first number is the number of impressions you'll earn for each visitor, the second number is how many impressions you'll earn from each visitor to your first level downline, and the third number is how many impressions you'll earn from each visitor to your second level downline. For details about how these values are calculated click here.

Speaking of your downline, if one of your site visitors joins the Get Paid Reviews affiliate program after visiting this site through your affiliate link, you add them to your downline in our program and get credit for visitors they send to Get Paid Reviews as well.



Banner Ad Rotation
The other thing that happens when someone follows your affiliate link to this web site is that banner ads are chosen at random from our database and shown on the site.

Banner ads are shown in three locations on almost every page:
• in the top header (468x60 or 234x60 ads)
• at the top of the right column (any ad 120x120 or smaller)
• at the bottom of the right column (any ad who's width is less than 126 pixels and who's height is at least 91 pixels)

Banner ads are not specific to any one affiliate's site. Your banner ads have the benefit of being shown to visitors referred by any and every Get Paid Reviews affiliate, regardless of who's actual link they followed to reach this web site.

You can upload an unlimited number of banner ads to your account using the Add Banner Ads page and then use the impressions you've earned from your affiliate link to display those banners on this site. Do this on the Transfer Imps to Ads page.



Base Impression Value and Earning Ad Impressions
You automatically get credit for the first page a visitor views upon following your affiliate link to Get Paid Reviews or when you are randomly assigned to a visitor that arrives here without following one of our affiliate's links.

Our server then keeps track of how many pages a visitor views while they're here and how many ad impressions are loaded for each page. Those values are recorded for all our affiliates as a whole, not for each affiliate individually.

Once an hour we take the total number of impressions served and divide it by the percentage of first pages views to arrive at a base impression value (BIV) for that first view. Think of this as the number of ads a typical visitor will be exposed to during the duration of their visit.

The number of impressions you earn for the visitors your first and second level downlines send through their affiliate links are then calculated from the BIV.

Without all the statistics, this means:
• you earn a minimum of 1.32 impressions for each visitor you send to Get Paid Reviews, and a minimum of 0.99 imps for each visitor your level one downline sends, and 0.66 for each visitor your level two downline sends. These values are typically much higher though - current values are BIV: 1.32 ; first level downline (IV1): 0.99 ; second level downline (IV2): 0.66 ).
• Up to date values for BIV, IV1, and IV2 can be found in the Affiliates column at the top right of every page. The first number is BIV, the second is IV1, and the third is IV2.
• the BIV of each visitor is calculated hourly based on current site traffic - the more visitors to Get Paid Reviews, the more ad impressions we need to serve to them and the more impressions you'll earn in return for referring them.

Because these values are calculated for the entire network, each affiliate benefits from the total traffic all affiliates send to Get Paid Reviews in higher BIV per visitor.

The more ad impressions that get served to visitors, the more ad impressions are credited to affiliates for sending those visitors - the theory being affiliates will then use the impressions they earn to display their own ads on the network and meet the demand.

The powerful thing about this system is that it's truly affiliate supporting affiliate. We maintain a 1:1 ratio for the system - for each ad impression that is served to a visitor, one impression goes right back to an affiliate as credit.

But, because multiple ads are shown on each page and because traffic for the entire network is taken into account when computing BIV, affiliates earn back much more than one impression for each visitor they refer through their affiliate link.

This not only rewards affiliates who send a lot of traffic through their affiliate link, but also allows new affiliates to earn a significant return on even small amounts of traffic - from day one.