Where do I find my affiliate link?

Your affiliate link already exists. There is no generate button and nothing to request from the merchant. As soon as a merchant approves you on a campaign, the link is sitting in the affiliate portal waiting to be copied.

Where to look

1. Sign in to the affiliate portal.
2. Open Campaigns from the portal menu. The page is headed "Available Campaigns" and lists the campaigns you have joined or been invited to.
3. On a computer, find the campaign row and press Copy Link in the Tracking link column. On a phone, each campaign is a card with a Tracking link box and a copy button beside it.
4. To see the link itself, click the row or tap the card. Campaign Details opens with the full link under the heading "Tracking link", plus your earnings and click count.

Your link is per campaign. Promote three campaigns and you have three different links, each one earning only on its own campaign.

What the link looks like

It usually comes in one of two shapes, and which one you get is down to the merchant's settings, not anything you can change:

• a short link such as linkjolt.io/l/sarah-jones, when the merchant has turned on affiliate names in links
• a longer link with ?tc= and &aff= in it, the rest of the time

Both track exactly the same. The part before the slash can differ too: some merchants run their program on a branded address like brandname.linkjolt.io rather than on plain linkjolt.io.

Paste the link whole and never trim anything after the question mark. That tracking code is the only thing that says the sale was yours. On the longer shape it is also the only thing that knows where to send your visitor, so a trimmed copy of that link drops people on LinkJolt's own homepage instead of the merchant, and you lose the visit as well as the commission.

Links you shared earlier keep working even if the merchant changes their branding later. What resolves a link is the code inside it, not the address it sits on.

How long a click counts

30 days. Someone who clicks your link is remembered for 30 days, so a purchase they make a week or three weeks later still credits you. The window is the same on every campaign and cannot be changed by you or by the merchant.

If there is no link yet

• Accept and Decline buttons where the link should be: you have an invitation you have not accepted. Accept it and your link appears.
• "Awaiting merchant approval": you applied through Discover and the merchant has not approved you yet. You will be notified when they do.
• The campaign is not in the list at all: if you promote more than one brand, check the brand name at the top of the portal menu first. It opens a Switch Brand list, and Campaigns only shows the brand selected there. Then look for the button beside the search box that counts hidden campaigns, for example "1 Hidden". It appears only when you have hidden a campaign in that browser, and pressing it brings those campaigns back into view. If neither applies, you have not joined that campaign, since the page only shows programs you have joined or been invited to.
• The copy button is greyed out: your affiliate account is suspended. Hovering the button says "Unavailable while suspended", and on a phone the tracking link box is hidden instead. Contact the merchant to sort it out.

Linking to a specific page

If the merchant has set a website for the campaign, open Campaign Details and look under Tracking link for Send customers to. Choose A specific page, paste the page address you want people to land on, and your link to it is built for you. The page has to be on the merchant's own site, so an address anywhere else is refused. It tracks the same way, over the same 30 days.

For how links compare with codes at checkout, read "What is the difference between tracking links and coupon codes?". For what happens after a sale is credited to you, read "When and how do affiliates actually get paid?".