Partner links
Your partner link is the main tool in the program. It is a short CleverControl address — nothing is hosted anywhere else, and your partner ID never appears in it.
What your link looks like
https://clevercontrol.com/rel/LK_…
You get one link per approved placement, each with its own label, so you can see which article, video or newsletter is working. The link points to a landing page we have approved together — it cannot be redirected anywhere else, by you or by anyone else.
Where to use it
- Articles, reviews and comparisons
- Video descriptions and pinned comments
- Newsletters
- Slide decks and webinar follow-ups
- QR codes in print, at events, or on screen
A QR code is simply another way of handing someone the same link. It is not a separate channel and is tracked in exactly the same way.
How long attribution lasts
By default, 90 days from the visitor's last verified click on your link. An individual window between 1 and 365 days can be agreed with your partner manager.
Within that window, direct visits do not clear your attribution: if the person returns to clevercontrol.com on their own before buying, the sale is still yours. And once a subscription has been paid for the first time, it stays attributed to you for the term of the policy, renewals included.
Mark your links as sponsored
Search engines require affiliate and paid links to be marked. Add rel="sponsored" — or rel="sponsored nofollow" — to your partner links in articles and blog posts. This protects your site and ours, and it does not affect tracking in any way.
What does not earn commission
These are useful for your own analytics, but they do not confirm partner attribution and never create a commission on their own:
- UTM tags, gclid, fbclid, subid and any external click ID
- A referral code typed in by hand
- Your domain being listed as a partner site
- The referrer header, IP address or browser fingerprint
If you need campaign-level analytics, add UTM tags on top of your partner link. The link does the attribution, the tags do the reporting.
What a click is and is not
Opening your link records a visit and nothing more. It is not a sale and not a commission — and a page confirming an order is not proof of payment either. Commission appears only after the payment provider confirms the payment.
If something goes wrong with a link
An expired or deactivated link returns a normal 404 — it never sends the visitor somewhere unexpected. And if attribution cannot be confirmed for any reason, the customer's purchase still goes through as usual; only the new commission is not assigned.