An independent review desk for affiliate programs — run on tracked numbers, not on who pays us.
In brief. DC Affiliate ranks affiliate programs and digital products by the numbers an affiliate actually feels: earnings per click, conversion rate, refund rate, cookie duration and payout reliability. Every program in our database carries one of two badges — TESTED, scored from our own account and kept evidence, or VETTED, scored from verified network data with the basis stated on the page.
What we do
Most affiliate content exists to sell you a signup. DC Affiliate exists to rank the things you might sign up for. We track affiliate programs across the major networks, score them on a published set of metrics, and keep the rankings current as the numbers move. When a program’s EPC falls or its refunds spike, its rank falls with it — the database decides, not a sponsor.
How we work
Gather
We pull program terms and performance data from the networks (ClickBank, JVZoo, CJ Affiliate, Amazon Associates) and from our own affiliate accounts where we run a program ourselves.
Score
Every program is scored on the same five metrics: EPC, conversion rate, refund rate, cookie duration and payout reliability. No metric, no ranking.
Write
Reviews lead with the verdict, show the data behind it, and state plainly whether the score is hands-on (TESTED) or data-checked (VETTED) — with the evidence named.
Correct
Numbers decay. Every review carries a last-reviewed date, rankings are recomputed as data changes, and when we get something wrong we fix the page and note the correction.
affiliate networks tracked
metrics scored on every program
evidence tiers — never blended
rule: commissions never buy rank
Our standards
Data before opinion
A verdict you can’t trace to a number is marketing. Ours trace.
The badge is the basis
TESTED and VETTED are never blended, and the basis is printed on the page, not buried.
Bad news stays up
A program that stops paying reliably keeps its review — with a worse score.
Corrections are public
Spot an error and tell us; fixed errors get a note, not a quiet edit.
Who’s behind this
DC Affiliate is an independent review desk, written and maintained by working affiliates and analysts — the same people who read the dashboards the rankings come from. We don’t publish a team page with stock-photo headshots, because the work is the credential: every claim on this site links back to data you can check.
How we’re funded
When you sign up through a link here, we may earn a commission — at no cost to you. That is the whole business model, and it is written out in full on our Disclosure page.
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