It’s been more than an year, that I’m an affiliate with Hostgator. Every month, I make almost 1200$+ from Hostgator Affiliate program. Just in case, if you are new to Hostgator, you should check our Hostgator review.
Hostgator offers unlimited hosting with quality customer support and being a user of Hostgator myself, I had no issues referring some one to Hostgator. This way, it’s a win-win situation for me. I recommend people for one of the finest shared hosting and every successful referral makes minimum $50 for me. Have you ever thought instead of paying for hosting, you may end up make money from Hostgator hosting. Like all other hosting, Hostgator also offers an affiliate program.
Hostgator Affiliate program
Hostgator Affiliate program:
Hostgator affiliate program is open for all and anyone can sign up with them without requirement to have a hosting account with them. Though my advice would be, it’s better to use something before you recommend it to anyone.
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How to get started with Hostgator Affiliate program:
Before we get into details about Hostgator Affiliate program, here is a quick income proof from Hostgator aff. prog.
Signing up with their aff. program is easy and anyone can join them right away. Go to Hostgator site and click on affiliate and sign up for a free aff. account.
Once you signed up with them, go to your account information and update your payment settings.
Payment option:
You can get paid by Check or PayPal. For easy and quick payment, I would suggest use Paypal.
Custom coupon code:
Hostgator also allows you to create custom coupon code, using it you can offer 25% off or $9.94 coupon code. Though never use you own coupon code for signing up. These coupon code will be very useful in branding. For example, I have created coupon codes “Shoutmeloud” “shoutmeloud25” “Wphostingdiscount” and so on. This way, I can offer different customized coupon for my different websites. Be wise, when you create a coupon code, as limit for custom coupon code is 10.
Unlimited Affiliate income:
The best thing which I like about Hostgator affiliate program is they pay you according to number of referrals. For example if you refer 9 people, you will be earning
- 9 * $75: $675
- 11* $100: $1100
- 21 *$125: $2625
So more referrals you will have, you will be making more money out of it. I usually target 11+ referral every month.
Some issues with Hostgator aff:
Though many users have reported about unpaid payment from their aff. program and many referrals shows as inactive, or fraud.
Hostgator pays only for active account and not for those account who signed up but never uploaded website on their server. More over, a user can sign up for only one hosting account, if they sign up for another hosting account, the referral is voided.
So far, I have not faced any issue with Hostgator affiliate program and successfully running it from an year. At the time of writing, they have made total payment of $12000+ to me and more than $4000 is unpaid. It worked for me and if you do it in the right manner, this hosting affiliate program will work for you too.
Here is a video showing how to get started with Webhosting affiliate program:
Sign up for Hostgator affiliate program.
Do let us know if you were aware of make money from Hostgator affiliate program or you completely new to this concept? If you have any additional questions, feel free to ask.
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GODaddy never paid me well. Switching to Hostgator !
Planning to add a the banner besides LOGO of my blog.
thanks for this post buddy.
I thinks it is the best and easiest way to earn lots of money. b/w I have a question that can we use refferal through mailing to people allowing them to use our refferal via email??
yes you can send the affliate link through mail aswell…
Dude where do you market your hostgator service and by Referrals you mean Those who buy hosting packages right? How much commissions do i get for referring domain purchases.
@Rahul
First, I won’t recommend buying domains from Hostgator, as they charge $15/domain, which is costlier than what you pay at Godaddy or ShoutMydomain.
I usually promote it within blog post….. And yes, referral means when people go and buy it…(Affiliate commission)…
They pay $50/sale for first 5
$75 5-10 sales
$100 10-20 sales
For sales above 21, you will be getting $125 sale..
I think its needs lots of traffic to achieve this much of referral. btw thank you for sharing with us.
Thanks Harsh I am already using this Affiliate Program. Hostgator is the best Host Provider.
I am no good in affiliate program but gonna give a try to hostgator affiliate program…btw you got a really good commission on feb
Till now i have tried affiliate products of my niche only. By reading this article i came to know that hosting companies also pays good affiliate commission. Thanks for the information.
Wow, that’s some serious earnings from HostGator! I’m only able to get a few commissions so far. Should have worked harder like you to get more!
i also had 4 signup’s last month but 2 are showing inactive now
@Sonali That happens..and do remember if those domains will not get active in 60 days, you will not get commission for those sales..
Awesome affiliate program by hostgator.
I think i should use it
great article sir, can you explain about coupon code generation. how they charge.
where is the option to create custom coupons?
When you log into your account, you will see create custom coupon option their only.
what about coupon code generation ??
Thanks for sharing this. Is it compulsory that you need to host on hostgator to become an affiliate?
No…YOu can be an affiliate with them without having any hosting account.
This is great and amazing figure that you are earning from one affiliate account. Coupon Code details and effective use needs to be understand. But one more thing is that you need good traffic to your site. By the way it seems great way to earn money.
thats big time money harsh, I also offer monthly hostgator coupon code on my blog but i need tips from you .
“Hostgator pays only for active account and not for those account who signed up but never uploaded website on their server.”
As you told earlier and later in comments too, that one can be a hostgator affiliate without having a hosting account with it. Please clear the “uploading of website” thing.
Thanks.
@Rahul
If I buy a Webhosting package from Hostgator using your link, but don’t install WordPress, or host a Website on my hosting… It will be counted as inactive account.. And you will not receive a commission for the same…
That really a nice income from one single source. It is really a boosting for their affiliate. I hope the trick used for promoting them is more important for earning.
Thank you for the sharing. It is really inspirational to see how much you are making every month from HostGator just by promoting them. Anyway, HostGator is really a very good web hosting company, I myself is hosting a few blogs and websites with them and so far I have only praises for them.
My previous months revenue from them have been pretty good also. Your report further testifies this web hosting company!
Let’s make some serious money from HostGator!
thats really big money…gosh ! people are not earning that much with adsense…good job harsh..
I’ve only managed to get a few sales a year even with good traffic per day. Either I’m doing something wrong or it’s because my blog is not in blogging niche
@Michael It converts well only when you are getting targeted traffic. Specially, when people are looking for Hosting and then they see your ad or read your post. A normal visitor might click but will never convert into sales. It’s a better idea to get more targeted visitors.
For the same, I have implemented a hosting blog and conversion on that blog is more than ShoutMeLoud, even with less traffic.
You can check out at http://wphostingdiscount.com
Hi Harsh,
I recently signed up for hostgator affiliate. And set my payment method via check because Paypal is not available in my country (Pakistan). I heard that Hostgator Checks never reaches. Is it true?
Ammar if normal postal comes to your address without fail, I believe it won’t be an issue. Though, you should try and let us know your experience. Which is most likely to be positive, atleast with PayPal my experience with Hostgator aff, has always been positive.
Can you ever tried to get your amount via check from hostgator? Tell me the approx time when it will reach my city (Chennai)?
This is nice and it will help many who like to go for web hosting as they can get things at discount price.
So its win win for both.
Thanks for the information Harsh