Frequently Asked Questions
What does affiliating mean?
Affiliating is a marketing strategy. Many products, services, and websites use affiliates to market their products and services. Every affiliate of simbalotto.com can promote us.
Are there any expenses or sign-up costs?
No. Joining our affiliate program is totally free of charge. The only expenses for you are the expenses you have running your websites or getting your own marketing materials.
How can I promote you?
You can use all kinds of online and offline strategies. Here are two of the most common ways:
You can build a website (lottery-related or other) and use it to promote Simbalotto. Get traffic by ranking for keywords in Google searches, and promote your site on social media. More traffic to your website means more click-throughs to Simbalotto - meaning more money for you.
Build a lottery website, use affiliate links pointing to Simbalotto.com, then promote your website offline.
How much can I earn?
There is no limit. You will get a percentage of the net sales amount that you generate. And for every month during which you generate higher commissions, your percentage will go up. Read this article for more details.
What is an affiliate link?
An affiliate link is a link that contains a tracker - a dedicated identifier connected only to your affiliate account. You embed those links on your website. Then, one of your website's visitors clicks it and makes a purchase on Simbalotto.com. Our affiliate system, by means of that tracker code, identifies that new client as a client brought in by you. You get a commission for this sale. Any future purchase by that client will also generate another commission for you.
Whenever a customer visits our site by clicking one of your affiliate links, a cookie is generated on his device. That ensures that if he does not make a purchase on his first visit, but comes back later to buy lottery tickets, he will still be identified as "your" sale.
How much do I get in terms of commissions?
You will get 12% of the "gross sales" generated by the players that you send. Gross sales means the full 100% of the ticket price. Many other affiliate programs offer higher rates, but those rates are based on "Net Gamin Revenue" - which means your commission is based on "Gross sales minus expenses for ticket purchases". That can mean that your commission is based on an amount that can be up to 50% less than the "Gross sales". We do not do that. If your player buys tickets worth €20,00, you get 12% commission on that, meaning €2,40.
For affiliates with high volume, better commission rates can be negotiated.
What about the affiliate account login?
nce you have registered here on our site, we will review your registration. Once that is done, we will create an affiliate account for you. Then, we will send you an email with a URL to log in to your affiliate account, with a username and a temporary password. After logging in to your account (the affiliate backend), you can change that password and check whether all your personal details are correct.
You will be able to create campaigns with dedicated affiliate links for different marketing activities. Let's say you have multiple websites. In such a case, you will want to create one campaign per website. That way you can see the performance of each website separately.
In the affiliate backend, you can also see your visitor stats and commission reports. The marketing materials that you can use to promote our products can also be downloaded there.
Commission payments
On the 15th of every month, we will pay you the commissions you earned during the previous month. Skrill, Neteller, and bank wire are the usual methods, but other options can be discussed as well.