Do you want to know how to make more money on the internet? Do you want to make more money working from home?
Then step right this way and I will give you a golden ticket.
Now that we have the marketing spiel out of the way, I can actually start delving into the point of this article (which I am sure you have worked out from the title anyways!).
WP Engine are a managed WordPress hosting company that have a great presence in the WordPress world. To put it bluntly, they pay a crap load of money to affiliates who promote their service.
High payouts are common in the hosting world, but WP Engine’s affiliate program is very competitive. They will pay you at least $200 per referred customer.
If the customer chooses a monthly hosting plan that costs more than $200, they will match that 100% payment and pay it to you as a commission. The most you can earn is a whopping $7,500 from a referral. That’s insane. Do you know of any other program that can earn you that amount of money from one customer?
I will explain in detail why I have not yet promoted WP Engine later this week so please stay tuned for that. In the meantime, please allow me to keep on my internet marketing hat and explain why this is such a good affiliate program to join.
The WP Engine Affiliate Program
When I went to WordCamp Europe 2016 in Vienna recently I heard about how some WordPress bloggers were killing it with WP Engine and making tens of thousands of dollars in referral commissions every month. That is the kind of cheddar that sends alarm bells ringing in any affiliate marketer.
There are a few reasons why their affiliate program is so profitable.
Firstly, WP Engine is a popular service that is well liked by many people in the WordPress community (many do not like their service, but that can be said about many other large hosting companies).
Secondly, their hosting plans are more expensive that traditional hosting companies which is how they can pay higher commissions.
They have five pricing plans. The first three cost $29 per month, $99 per month, and $249 per month. If you refer someone to WP Engine and they purchase one of those plans you will earn a commission of $200, $200, or $249 respectively (yes you will receive a commission of $200 for referring someone to their cheapest hosting plan).
WP Engine’s premium and enterprise grade plans cost much more. The exact cost depends on what setup the customer chooses. If someone opts for one of those more expensive plans, your commission for one customer could be in the thousands. That’s a helluva lot of cash for one referral.
Another big selling points is that WP Engine host their affiliate program on ShareASale. They are a reputable affiliate network so you don’t have to worry about any in-house shenanigans messing about with your stats. The program has two levels and will reward you for referring sub-affiliates too. Cookies also last a healthy 180 days.
In short, the WP Engine affiliate program presents a good opportunity for earning a lot of money. You can promote them using banner links or via a review of their service. You could also send a blast out to your email list.
Go Check Them Out
I will talk about WP Engine as a service at a later date and do a in-depth review of their service for my hosting guide. All I wanted to do in this article was stress this opportunity available to you.
Those of you who have experience in affiliate marketing or who actively talk about WordPress, blogging, or other website issues on your blog, should take a close look at the WP Engine affiliate program. All you need is one commission to make it worthwhile.
Good luck.
Kevin
I explain this in the article. It’s $200.
Will I get affiliate commission if somebody buys a $29 plan for 1 month?
If yes, then how much will I be paid?
Yeah it’s insane isn’t it. It’s not going to happen frequently, but if you send enough traffic to them there is a chance that you will send them a big fish.
I was Shocked just of the title you provided.
For only single referral $7500, that’s too high I thought first.
Hope you have a great week ahead!
Thanks,
Saurav
Hi Surav.
No problem. Glad you found it useful.
Can I ask why you were shocked? :)
Kevin
Hi Kevin,
Firstly i was shocked to see the title of your post but later i found that this is still possible.
The definite purpose of creating any blog and Website is to make money.
Surely wordpress is most used platform to build websites all over the world. In every two second a new Website is created. In the month of March 86 Million posts were published on Word press domain only.
Such huge amount of wordpress users requires many of plug-in and other platforms.
Many of affiliate marketers are in this business of referring WP service and earning a huge amount of money through it.
Thanks for sharing wonderful information with us.
With regards,
Saurav
I agree wholeheartedly with that. I simply cannot use a company that does not resolve an issue until the next morning when they resume working hours again.
It’s pretty good they offered that level of support. You couldn’t argue with the hosting company not spending that amount of time transferring a website for you.
With regards to your article suggestion, I think that is a difficult thing to compare as many hosting services which are disliked by some are loved by others. The opposite also holds true.
From an affiliate marketing point of view, smaller commissions simply cannot compete. Take a look at some of the commissions on offer by some hosting companies. You will be lucky to make $5 for a referral and other companies are offering $100 or $150 for a conversion. That means I need to send 20 to 30 times as much traffic to the cheaper hosting companies just to make the same commission.
For the record, I link to services regardless of commissions etc. Check out my hosting guide section from the main menu and you will see I have recommended many great cheap services :)
Kevin
Haha I’ll stay tuned
I’ve used a few of hosting companies over time and whether you agree, I always now go for a hosting company which provides 247 live chat support to type to. over a ticket system with phone support…. unless they have a sales chat support in which I can get them to escalate any of my tickets quickly.
I had hosting company remotely connect to my computer to transfer a site yesterday. They was on my computer for over 2 hours and still couldn’t do it. So i told them to leave it and i did it myself. But having a service on that level is pretty decent.
Be great if you did a post on, small commission referrals with competitive hosting vs high commission with non competitive hosting and which one you think is better…
I’ll wait for your updates, keep up the good work!
Cheers
Luke
Hey Luke.
You were too quick for me :)
I have already wrote most of my follow up post to this which explains why I have never promoted them in the past. One being price and value, another being quality of support, another being concerns about them tampering with customer’s websites without permission in order to improve performance.
Stay tuned and I will explain my thoughts more on this subject during the week. I cover internet marketing and WordPress related topics on this blog, but this post was written with affiliate marketing in mind, not WordPress. I do appreciate it’s confusing for me to look at something like this from two different angles.
I raised these issues with people at WordCamp and was constantly being told that I was a “Power user” or a “Technical user”. I don’t consider myself either of those, but their point was that many people simply want a hosting company to handle everything and want everything simplified. I think it’s an important point to remember and it doesn’t mean those customers are less intelligent.
I will expand on this issue in my next article and explain my thoughts on this in full :)
Kevin
Hiya Kevin
They have some awesome commission rates, but there hosting for basic plans are poor and not competitive. For $29 a month you get 1 website, with a stupid sized space allocation of 10gb which you won’t use.
When talking to them on their chat, they wouldn’t answer the question straight forward of whether they use SSD on their share hosting servers.
“We generally don’t give out detailed spec information. WP Engine’s competitive edge doesn’t involve the hardware as much as it does the software stack within the server which we have optimized for WordPress.”
I disagree with what they said.
Yesterday I transferred my website from Eukhost who use HDD to Fastcomet who use SSD, and my page speed score via google insight went from 43 /100 to 81/100…. site speed is a key factor towards SEO.
CDN: Also Wpengine want to charge $19,99 a month to use MAXCDN (their partner) but you might as well go direct to maxcdn for $9 a month,
What I’m getting a Kev is, would you still use their referral program to earn commission, even if you know they aren’t very competitive and there are so many more hosting companies which will beat their rates hands down, despite this Software Stack Solution?
…. and secondly because or this, whats the chances of getting a referral… if an intelligent person knows to go else where?
Great Post btw, good read.
Cheer
Luke