Frequently Asked Questions

1. Getting Started
2. How does it work?
3. How will I get paid?
4. When will I get paid?
5. What is the affiliate link?
6. How else can I promote my affiliate link?
7. Any video instructions? ( If reading is too boring... LOL )
8. Quick Start Guide

How do I get started?

All you need is a website or blog. Eg. Blogger, Wordpress (Selfhosted) and regular internet access.

All you need to do is to send a visitor to our site via your special link (called an 'affiliate link'), and when she or he buys anything from us, you will get 20% of the purchase price.

How does it work?

First You Sign Up Here.

• Then copy and paste the banner link code on to your site.
• This places banners on your site that are automatically updated as our new designs come out.
• Then when a customer comes to us via one of your links, we pay you 20% commission on sales.
• Most of our products range from US$200 up till US$2,000 some even as high as US$20,000
• So you can earn some really substantial income just by pasting some code onto your site.
• The program is powered by Post Affiliate Pro, the leading affiliate tracking software.
• Post Affiliate Pro uses a combination of cookies and IP addresses to track referrals for best possible reliability.
• When the visitor follows your affiliate link to our site, our affiliate system registers this referral and places cookies on his or her computer.
• When the visitor pays for the product, the affiliate system checks for cookies (if not found, checks for IP address of referral) and credits your account for 20% of the purchase value.
• This process is absolutely automatic. All your referrals will be properly tracked. Post Affiliate Pro is used by thousands of successful Internet merchants and affiliates world-wide.

Setting up a Shankari Jewelry Affiliate account is very easy and it's completely FREE.
All you need to do to is complete the Sign Up form.
After a review from our affiliate manager, you will receive an email with your login & password.

As a Shankari Jewelry Circle of Light affiliate, you will have your own control panel where you can see the detailed statistics of traffic and sales you referred, news and training materials, and choices of banners and text links. Then you only need to place an affiliate link, banner or text link at your website or place ads in pay-per-click search engines, so you can start sending customers to our website.

How will I get paid?

All payments are made in US Dollars.

We pay you via PayPal because it's safe, fast and convenient.

Minimum paypal payout level is $50.00

Sign up for a Paypal account here, if you don't already have one.

When will I get paid?

There is a 30 days return policy for jewelry customers. As soon as the 30 day period is complete we will pay you within 3 working days via paypal.

If the customer returns an item we do not pay commissions.

If the customer decides to exchange an item, we will honor your commissions based on the value of the new item.

What is the affiliate link?

The affiliate link is your special URL where you should be sending the visitors. You can get the code for these nice banners on the Shankari Jewelry Affiliate Program.

How else can I promote my affiliate link?

You can also promote your affiliate link through message boards, discussion groups and your email signature.

Some people even put their affiliate link into PPC (pay per click) search engines, like Google Adwords.

In fact, this type of promotion is becoming increasingly popular and we have several affiliates promoting our products in this way and making a very good profit. If you are not familiar with with type of promotion, we recommend this excellent ebook.

It's entirely up to you how far you want to take it.

Any video instructions?

Yes, you can access a free video tutorial here that show you how to use the system. The tutorial shows you how to sign up & how to copy and paste the banner code into your website or blog. HERE

OK so what now?

These simple steps:

• Go to the Signup Form
• Fill out the form
• Receive your password and other info by email
• Log in to your own affiliate panel and choose from various
  • Banners
  • text links
  • And other promotional materials
• Place some of these banners/links onto the Home page of your website and as many pages as you want, to increase your sales.
• Receive 20% commissions from every sale!

Any questions? Contact: sjc@shankariinternational.com
We will be more than happy to help!