Flidge is an online platform that connects people who own a site or a blog and who want (i) to have their site or blog promoted by others by offering paid for links on Flidge, or (ii) to earn money by publishing these offered links to sites or blogs of another person in return for the clicks and the site visitors.
- How
Offering links on Flidge to promote your site (or a page of your site) is easy.
You can determine the price of the links that you offer for publication, the number of required clicks per link and the number of total links that you make available to publishers.
Candidate publishers will then get in contact with you by email to request approval to publish your link on their site. Once approved, your link(s) will be publised on the relevant site(s) and you will get new visitors and traffic to your site.
- Payment
You pay for the links that you make available on Flidge in line with the amount that you define when determining the value of your links. Payment can be made with PayPal or with your account balance.
- How
Publishing links on your site is easy: select the link that you are interested in and request approval from the person that is offering the link. Once approved, you will receive a confirmation by email with the Flidge link details and you can start publishing that link on your site (for example, in a relevant article on your blog).
Follow these steps to use the Flidge link you received:
- Create a normal hyperlink on a page your website.
- Use the Flidge link your received (usually in the a format similar to: http://www.flidge.com/Tracking/Redirect.aspx?Id=xyz) to redirect your site visitors to the target site (for example, John’s site).
- This Flidge link will then count the number of clicks and re-direct automatically in the background to the target site. You can view the clicks and traffic details by logging in to your Flidge account.
- Earning money
You earn your money through the clicks that occurred on your published Flidge link.
It is very important to note that you earn the underlying value of your published link only when and if all the required independent third party clicks, as determined by the link offerer, have actually occurred, are properly recorded and accepted in the Flidge system.
The money earned will be shown in your account balance.
- Flidge commission fee
You have the option to have the balance of your account paid out to you, provided you have reached a minimum balance of USD 10 or its currency equivalent. The minimum amount to be paid out is USD 10. When we pay out the balance to you, Flidge will retain a service commission fee of 20%, plus taxes if applicable, of the amount to be paid out.
Payment to you is only possible through PayPal.
- Prohibited content
You may not offer or publish links that violate any laws, rules or regulations, third party rights (including copyright, trademark or any other proprietary rights) or is otherwise unlawful. More details are available in our Terms of Use.
It is also strictly prohibited to impersonate any other person, entity or site when using Flidge.
- Prohibited sites
Sites related to any of the following activities or containing any of the following content (in whole or in part) are excluded from using Flidge:
- Pornography, adult, or mature content
- Hacking or cracking content
- Illicit drugs and drug paraphernalia
- Excessive profanity
- Gambling, betting or casino-related content
- Content regarding programs which compensate users for clicking on ads or offers, performing searches or surfing websites
- Sales or promotion of weapons or any type of ammunition
- Sales or promotion of beer or hard alcohol
- Sales or promotion of tobacco or tobacco-related products
- Sales or promotion of prescription drugs
- Sales or promotion of products that are replicas or imitations of designer goods
- Any content that harasses, degrades, intimidates or is hateful toward an individual or group of individuals on the basis of religion, gender, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity or age.
Please send any question you may have or your feedback to Flidge.