It is a CPC affiliate program connecting Shopzilla Inc’s “where to buy” shopping solution to website publishers interested in monetizing by integrating sponsored shopping content for the betterment of their own business. These publishers specifically monetize by driving high quality traffic to their website through one of Shopzilla Inc’s properties which includes BizRate.com and Beso.com. Publishers are able to create unique shopping experience contextually relevant to their websites by participating in the Shopzilla Publisher Program. They also have great access to Shopzilla’s rich inventory of catalogued products and offers from over 8000 merchants. Also this program additionally manages TaDa Referral Program which allows publishers to monetize on leads sent to TaDa.com.

You’ll have to apply for the program in order to become its exclusive member. The registration will be reviewed by the Shopzilla Publisher Team and membership will be granted on discretionary basis.

Publishers using US based Shopzilla Publisher Program are requested to target US visitors. The same package also provides access to sponsored shopping content from US based merchants. If a publisher using the US based program fails to target US visitor, it will result in poor traffic for his/her site and in turn may result in account termination. If your website targets visitors from UK or France or Germany, you’ll have to register for that respective international Shopzilla Inc affiliate program mentioned below.

1. United Kingdom Shopzilla UK Publisher Program

   
   

2. France Program d’Affiliation de Shopzilla.

   
   

3. Germany Shopzilla Publisher Partnerprogram. You’ll receive a country specific Publisher ID that can be used only within that country specific Shopzilla Inc, affiliate program.

One can generate earnings by placing sponsored shopping content of Shopzilla Publisher Program on his/her site respectively. This content links your visitors to Shopzilla, Inc website or Shopzilla, Inc merchant’s website. Earnings are generated based on the actual leads or redirects your website users generate to Shopzilla, Inc merchants. A percentage of the revenue collected by Shopzilla, Inc from these merchants for the same redirects will be paid as commission to you.
Earnings also depend upon other factors :

1. Integration level in your website.

   
   

2. Relevancy of the sponsored shopping content of the SPP program you have chosen to integrate with your website.

   
   

3. Nature of user activity of your website

   
   

4. The quality of leads or redirects your website generates for Shopzilla, Inc merchants.

You can generate earnings as soon as Shopzilla detects leads or redirects generated by the Shopzilla Publisher program’s sponsored shopping content which you have placed on to your website. However, the same earnings are paid to you only when the amount crosses 50$ by the end of any given reporting month.

It is used to track the effectiveness/efficiency of the Shopzilla Publisher Program’s sponsored shopping content you have placed on your website. Publisher’s make use of “View Report” section of the Publisher Portal to view earnings generated by each Placement ID. For referring URL tracking purposes, you ought to make use of Placement ID; by default its value is ‘1’.

Payments made to publishers within United States are paid via cheques. These cheques are issues by the parent company which is Scripps Networks Interactive. Payments to publishers outside US are made via PayPal. However before applying for the program under this case, see to that your country is approved for receiving PayPal payments.

The minimum payment amount on earnings is 50$. Payments are made to publishers when their account earnings account balance is at least 50$ at the end of a given reporting month. However, even if the amount hasn’t crossed that value yet as per the last report, the amount will be carried on to the next month cycle and duly paid at the end of next month’s report provided by then the amount has crossed 50$.

Depending upon your circumstances you may need to pay taxes for the earnings you have gained from Shopzilla Publisher Program. The company is not responsible for issues regarding taxes and is not obligated in any way for the same. Scripps Networks Interactive issues 1099’s to all Publishers that are US taxpayers or Taxpaying entities if in case the earnings meet the then current guidelines that govern the issuance of taxes and other obligations.

As a dedicated account manager, listing your products on the market gives you access to the business services site. This grants you 24 hour access to you account information, performance metrics, comprehensive bidding tools that allow you to change the CPC rates flexibly etc.

For shopper’s convenience and aiding them with purchase decisions in a smart and influencing way, Shopzilla displays complete product details including its merchant’s details as well in every search result pertaining to a particular product. In order to accomplish such comprehensive features, when you register they prompt you to give in all the necessary details pertaining to the products that needs to be listed in the form of a product feed. This feed can be in any format including .txt, .csv, .xml etc with complete information regarding the product inclusive of image, its price and a description of the product. Depending upon the products in your feed, these products will be further subcategorized by Shopzilla in relevant categories. For example, a category names as appliances will have subcategories such as refrigerators, Food processors, grinders, microwave ovens etc. Your appliance product will be placed appropriately within these subcategories of the main category Appliances in Shopzilla.com.

Based upon the products in your feed, Shopzilla places your products in relevant "subcategories". An example of a category is Appliances, and examples of subcategories would be Refrigerators, Food Processors, and Microwaves.