Course Index

Affiliates



Our Affiliate Network in Brief:

Monthly commission payments in your currency via PayPal or Bank Transfer
Quick and easy setup - be up and running within minutes
A range of banners and text links are provided to promote each merchant
Attractive commission rates from our e-learning merchants
Additional commissions for 2nd tier referral sales
Commission payments are paid on a monthly basis
Instant payments by PayPal or Bank Transfer each month
Website links are provided, but no website is needed
Email links provided
Real time statistics and graphs


Affiliate FAQs

What is affiliate marketing & CourseIndex.com?

CourseIndex.com is a specialist affiliate network, allowing you to earn sizeable commissions for promoting our merchants' ranges of high quality online elearning courses.

Once you have joined our network, you will be able to browse the range of elearning merchants who have signed up with us. You will be able to select programs of most relevance to your site. We have attempted to put together excellent creative material for you to use - from simple text links, to Flash images, to traditional banner ads.

Additionally, we have prepared 'Media Packs' complete with information on each of our merchants. This gives you invaluable extra information on the type of market each of our merchants is active in - allowing you to pitch your own message accordingly.


What kind of Merchants are on CourseIndex.com?

The merchants on CourseIndex.com are selling elearning courses, also known as online learning courses. These courses are typically delivered to students via the popular Learning Management System (LMS) - Moodle. Moodle is used by the majority of the world's universities and colleges, as well as a growing number of private corporations and other training bodies to deliver classes online at a time that suits everybody. Elearning is often known as "Anytime, Anyplace, Anywhere" learning.


What kind of commissions might I earn?

CourseIndex.com merchants offer a range of attractive commission rates. Once signed into CourseIndex.com, you will be able to browse the available programs and decide which are most appropriate for you.


What currencies do you support?

Our merchants are primarily from the USA, Canada, the UK and Australia. They may therefore be priced in a range of currencies. We will convert the commission into your currency at the rate prevailing on the day commissions are paid out and pay you via Paypal. We will use Paypal to make the currency conversion, so it is Paypal's currency conversion rates that will be used.


Is there a minimum payout value and how often do you pay?

We will payout monthly as long as you have a commission balance of at least $50.


Is there an affiliate control panel?

Yes. You have access to a full range of tracking reports, as well as a dashboard that allows you to choose and customise the URLs on our merchants' offers. There are realtime graphs there that identify statistics over a range of different time periods (Today, Yesterday, Last 7 days, etc). You can run a range of conversion reports and download these as a CSV file for Excel or other programs.


How do I choose merchants to promote?

Simply join our program at http://network.courseindex.com/signup. When you login to your affiliate control panel, you will see all our current merchants' offers listed under the 'Offers' tab. All offers are categorised by topic/subject area - so feel to browse for those of most interest or relevance to you.

Is there much merchant information available?

Yes! We have prepared a comprehensive merchant information page for each of our elearning merchants. There should be plenty of information there for you to cut and paste as you need. Additionally, we have uploaded at least ten creatives into each merchant offer - giving you a range of banners, images, text, html, Flash and other resources with which to promote these offers.


Are there other promotion tools available?

Yes! There is an Ad Manager tool that allows you to create your own campaigns built from multiple creatives from your chosen merchants. These may include images, Flash and HTML code for banner rotation as well as to run text and email campaigns.


How long does the session tracking cookie last?

This varies, but is generally 60 days or more.


Can I change the default target URL?

Yes! If you like you can customise your links to target specific pages on the merchants' websites.


Are these short or long URLs?

Up to you! You can enable a Tiny URL in your affiliate control panel for each link you create.


Can I pass extra tracking data of my own?

Yes! You can pass up to 5 Sub IDs and an additional 'Source' code. The Sub IDs will appear in the affiliate conversion tracking reports, as will the 'Source' code. Additionally, you can filter reports by Source.


Can I earn 2nd Tier Commissions by referring other affiliates to CourseIndex.com?

Yes! You can earn a 5% share of the payout by doing this.


Can I track the number of impressions the Tracking URL receives as well as the number of clicks?

Yes! You have access to an impression pixel in the affiliate’s control panel that you can use on your pages.


How do I get started?

Simply join the CourseIndex.com elearning affiliate network at http://network.courseindex.com/signup and start selling our merchants' Moodle courses!


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