Adobe Affiliate Program:

Adobe Affiliate Program is an attractive
commission paying Affiliate program where you can earn a lot of money through
its Affiliate Program. Promoting their Adobe products like Adobe Creative
Cloud, Adobe Stock, and Adobe Document Cloud on your blog, website, or any
other social media platform will make you a massive amount of money if anyone
purchases Adobe Products from your Affiliate links.

If you are running a particular niche website
only to promote products of Affiliate Programs, then you can run Adobe
Affiliate ads on your Site without Google Adsense approval.

Adding and running Adobe ads on your Site will
drive you a lot of impressions for Adobe ads, which may make a massive impact
on your Affiliate Earnings through these Adobe Ads on your Site. Just not only
by website or blog, but you can also earn huge money from Adobe by sharing its
links in social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc. Reddit is
also the best place for sharing with an attractive description in Reddit
Groups.

If you take a look at Adobe commission rates,
Adobe pays a higher commission rate than other Affiliate Programs. For
different products, the commission rates are also different for each Adobe
product.

Here’s the commission rate what Adobe affiliate
program offers:

Commission:

Commission for Month to Month
Subscription of Adobe Creative Cloud & Document Cloud is 85.00%.

Commission for One Year Prepaid
Subscription of Adobe Creative Cloud & Document Cloud is 8.33%.

Commission for Month to Month
Subscription of Adobe Stock is $72US.

Commission for Single Purchase of Adobe
Creative Cloud & Document Cloud is 8.33%.

Joining Adobe Affiliate Program:

Compared to other Affiliate programs, the Signup
process for Adobe Affiliate Program is somewhat challenging to set up an account
and verifying Site in the Tradedoublers site. Adobe help files were also
outdated to take a look at those files and to follow the given instructions.

Recently, I have signed up for the Adobe
affiliate program, where I’ve faced a lot of issues in this process. So, to
make it easy to join Adobe Affiliate Program for you guys, I’m writing this
article to give you a clear path and detailed information on how to join AdobeAffiliate Program and run Adobe Affiliate Ads on your Site.

How to Sign up for Adobe’s Affiliate Program:

Open Adobe Affiliate Program Sign up page and
Click on the Apply Now button to create an Adobe Affiliate Account.

Now you need to fill the required information
to create an Account in Adobe’s Affiliate Program.

When you Sign up for Adobe Affiliate, Adobe
will ask you information on

1. Country –

Select the Country
where you are business is located.

2. Language –

Select your
preferred language (Only two languages are given in

this field
1.English, 2.Japanese)

3. Business Type –

Here you need to
choose your business type among business

type choices from

1. Individual.

2. Organization (non-taxable).

3. Company.

You need to select one from those three business types.

4. First Name –

Business Owner’s First Name.

5. Last Name –

Business Owner’s Last Name.

6. Email Address –

Enter Email Address that you want to associate with Adobe’s Affiliate
Program.

7. Username –

Create a username for your Adobe affiliate account.

8. Password –

Create a Password for your Adobe affiliate account.

9. Password Confirmation –

Re-enter your created password.

10. Your Website –

Enter your website’s URL to associate your website with Adobe’s Affiliate
Program.

11. Captcha Code –

Enter
Captcha code from the Right box.

Now, Click on all the
Terms and Conditions box and click Create Account.

Activating your Adobe
Affiliate Account:

After creating an account,
you will receive a confirmation Email from Adobe Team with an activation URL.

By clicking on that URL,
your publisher’s account will be activated.

Note: You need to activate
your account within 15 minutes of opening this email, otherwise your account
will remain inactive, and you will need to restart the registration process.

How to Verify Your Site:

Before getting started,
you need to verify your Site to able to apply for Adobe Programs.

After activating your Affiliate account, sign-in
to your affiliate account on TradeDoubler (TradeDoubler is an Affiliate Network
used by Adobe).

Once you logged-in to your Affiliate Account, you
will see a big blue banner at the top of the dashboard with text Step to Complete: Verify Site.

Now, you need to verify your Site by clicking on
Click Here on the blue banner or by from My Sites menu.

When you click Your Sites from the menu or by
clicking Click Here from the blue banner, you will see your site URL. Right
Next to Your Website’s URL, you will see a text NOT VERIFIED in Red color and Click
on that text.

Once you clicked on it, you will see the instructions
to verify your Site.

Now here you can see two methods to verify your Site.
You can use any one of them to verify your Site.

Website Verification Method 1: Adding Meta Tag to
Homepage Code

In this verification method, you need to copy given
the meta tag and paste it in under the <HEAD> tag of your website’s
homepage HTML code.

1. Copy
the Meta Tag from TradeDoubler site.

2. Open blogger.

3. Goto theme and click on edit HTML.

4. Now paste the meta tag under <Head>
as shown in below fig.

5. Now save the theme.

After saving the theme, click on Click here to
verify your site button on the TradeDoubler site to check the Meta tag on your
Site.

Your Site will be verified by TradeDoubler in just
a while.

If Method 1 doesn’t work, then try to verify your Site
by using Method 2.

Website Verification Method 2: Adding File to Root
of Your Web Server:

In this method, you need to verify your Site by saving a file in the root of
your server.

1. Create an empty file
and name it as given number.html (ex: 318286.html)

2. Then save this file
in the root of your webserver.

(eg.
<https://www.yoursite.com/318286.html>).

3. Then
you need to access your hosting via your FTP or webserver.

If you have any doubts regarding these two
methods, you can simply click on [See Example] on how to do these steps.

Once you have followed the above instructions,
click on Click here to verify your site button on the TradeDoubler site to
verify your Site.

If you are unable to verify your Site by
TradeDoubler even after trying these two methods, then you need to verify your Site
manually.

Steps to Manually Verify your Site:

Manual verification of your Site is a time taking
process. In my case, it takes two days to get my Site verified by TradeDoubler.

To manually verify your Site, you need to contact the
Adobe Affiliate team from the TradeDoubler site. Just click on AdobeAffiliates@arvato.com you’ll redirect to
support form where you need to fill the form and click on the Send button to
submit the form.

In this support forum, you need to fill
information on your:

1.Affiliate
Email –

Here enter your email
address with which you are signed in.

2. Subject
–

In this field, just type
in “Site Verification.”

3. Message
–

Enter your message in
this field, asking to approve your Site manually.

4. Category
–

In this select category,
select Site Verification.

5. Site
URL –

Here enter your Site URL.

6. Name
–

In this field, enter
your Site Name.

7. Site
ID –

Here enter your unique
Site ID. You can find your Site ID from Site info page on TradeDoubler.

Now click on the Send button to submit a support
forum to Adobe Affiliate Team.

After submitting within 24 hours, you’ll receive a
mail from TradeDoubler (Affiliate network of Adobe Company) providing you with
a video of step by step more detailed instructions on how to verify your Site.

However, the video provided is an outdated one,
but somehow it will help you to complete the Site verification process by
following the instructions from the video.

Here is the Step by Step Instructional video link:

http://hst.tradedoubler.com/file/264355/videos/Manual_Verification.mp4

Steps you need to follow from the Instructed video:

1. Log-in to your Adobe
Affiliate Account.

2. Click on Your Sites
>> Your Sites.

3. Click on the Not
Verified text that is next to your URL.

4. Copy the verification
code from option 1.

5. Open your Site’s HTML
Code.

6. Paste the code into
or below a block of text, as shown in the below fig.

7. Remove the comments
from the pasted code.

8. This is how, after
pasting the code looks like in your Site.

9. After following all
the steps from the Instructions video, now you have to send a screenshot of
your website with verification code and website link to Adobe Affiliate Team.

They’ll take up to 2 days to verify your site.

After site verification, you’ll receive an email
from the adobe team saying that your site has been verified.

Along with this Site Verification Email, you will
also receive a complete PDF Guide from Adobe Affiliate Team which will help you
in enhancing your site and how to earn commissions.

This is how you need to verify your site manually
on Adobe Affiliate Program.

After all of these Steps to receive Payments from
Adobe you need to add your Contact and Payment Information to Publisher Account
Settings.

Publisher Account Settings:

Contact Information:

Enter your full contact
information by selecting >>
Account >> Contact Information. Fill in your information and sign up
for important program emails and
newsletters.

Please
note that you will not receive information on many important program updates if
you do not activate the email notifications in this section.

In
this contact information form you need to edit your contact information:

1. Username –

Here
your username cannot be changed.

2. First Name –

Enter your Last Name.

3. Last Name –

Enter your Last Name.

4. Email –

Your Email Address cannot be changed,
It will remain same as your Login Email.

5. Language –

It will have remained same as you
selected in Sign up Process.

6. Reporting Currency –

Select
your country’s currency.

7 –
14 Fill up your Address, contact details.

15.
In this field, you need to select the type of emails you want to receive from Adobe.

You
can select from

1. Text
Newsletter.

2. HTML
Newsletter.

After all this click on the Save button to update your
contact information.

Payment Information:

Enter your payment
information by selecting >>
Account >> Payment Information. This information is required to
receive commission payments.

Payment Options

The Adobe Affiliate Program
provides two options
for receiving payments. Please choose the best option
for you using the
guidelines displayed on the screen.

Option 1. Direct Bank Transfer via TradeDoubler.

Option 2. Payoneer digital payment service.

NOTE:
If you need to change the Payment Option
after you initially completed the payment information; please contact the
Adobe Affiliate Team.

If
you want to change the Business Type or
Bank Account Country after you
initially completed the payment information you need to contact the Adobe
Affiliate Team.

In this payment
information you need to fill up required fields:

1. Business Type –

Choose your type of
Business.

2. Business Account Country –

Select the country or territory in
which your bank account is held.

3. Tax Residence –

The location of your fixed place of
business, in which you are liable to pay tax.

4. Payment Provider –

The payment provider that will be used
for all payments.

5. Account Status –

It will show your Payoneer account
status.

6. VAT Country –

In this field select the country or territory
in which you are VAT registered.

7. Enter your TradeDoubler Password –

Enter your TradeDoubler Password and
update your payment information.

Attention!! If
you do not complete your Contact information and Payment information, you will
not receive payments.

After all this, Now the main important thing is to place Ads, Banners, and Links in your Website.

Selecting Ads, Banners,
and Links:

Banners

Once
you have been accepted to the Adobe Affiliate Program for the country you wish
to promote you can start adding ads to your website. Please select the program that you have applied and been accepted
for, and then choose an ad from that program.

1. On your Menu account choose >> Tracking >> My Ads

2. If you have multiple websites select
the correct program, click under >>
Program name.

Here
you will find a selection of text links and banner images (JPG/GIF). You can
choose an ad by product category, size or select “List all available ads”.

Once
you have selected a banner please click on >>
Show Code.

When
you click Show code a pop-up window
will be opened with the HTML Code. Next, select options for the code and copy
and paste onto your website. The Show Code popup displays different options
depending on the type of ad, you can select any type on your interest.

The example below is the
code for the banner:

1. Choose the website which you added and
where the ad is to be published. You can only choose the websites with the status “Accepted”.

2. Tick the checkbox to select:

– JavaScript

– Custom

3. Use cache prevention
(optional): Tick “enable”, cache prevention is used to make sure that the
browser does not cache the link and thus guarantees that all impressions are
accounted for.

4. Copy the code and paste
it into the HTML code of the website. It might take up to 15 minutes to appear ads
on the website.

Text Links:

To
add text links to your site select a program that you have applied to and then
choose text link for the program.

1. Click on >> Tracking >> My Ads.

2. If you have multiple
websites select the correct program, click under >> Program Name

Select Text Links

3. Once you have selected
a link click on Show Code.

4. A pop-up window will
appear with the HTML code. Copy and paste this HTML code into your approved website.

Deep Links:

Text
links are used to link directly to the Adobe Store. Deep links are text links
that direct the visitor to a specific page on the Adobe Store rather than to the
home page. As the target URL contains content related to the ad, Deep links results
in much more targeted linking.

1. Click on >>> Tracking >>> My Ads.

2. If you have multiple
websites select the correct program, click under >> Program Name

Select >> Create Deeplink.

3. Select text link format.

4. Full anchor Tag.

5. Plain URL Enter target
URL (deep linking only).

6.Enter EPI parameter
(more information on the next page).

7.Enter anchor text.

8. Test your text link.

9. Copy and paste the
code into your website.

EPI:

Enhanced
Publisher Integration or EPI parameter allows you to uniquely identify a
specific tracking link, and view performance data on how well each unique EPI an encoded link has performed.

Setting
up EPI:

EPI
requires one parameter, which you add to your tracking link and get actions
reported on that parameter. Generally the parameter can be letters, numbers or
any combination thereof. The maximum length is 64 characters.

EPI
Reporting:

By implementing this parameter,
you will be able to identify which tracking links are generating sales. For EPI
reports go to Reports>> More Reports>> Event break down PLT.

Reporting:

You
can access all relevant reports of Adobe Affiliate Program under >> Reports in your publisher
interface.

Account
Balance Breakdown Report

This
report gives an overview of the commissions you have earned through ads but
have not yet been paid out. It will give you payment information on the next payment
date and the minimum payment threshold needed in order to generate a payment.
This report has three sections. Once transactions not yet qualified for
payment, transactions to be paid in the next payment and rejected payments.

Rejected
payments

These
are payments rejected by your bank. Make sure that you have entered your bank
details correctly in order to receive payments. If your details are incorrect, then
the payment will not go through, and you will need to wait until the next
payment period.

Payment

The
payment report displays transactions that have been paid to your account in the
respective payment run. Click the sum in the Sum converted column for a breakdown of transactions where
each transaction has its own row with detailed
information. Commissions for sales and leads are broken down per transaction while click and impressions are aggregated
per day. EPI information is also included, allowing you to attribute specific
sales to specific custom events.

This is the complete guide on how you can set up your Adobe Affiliate Account and Run Affiliate Ads on Your Site…..

Hope this article will help you…….

For More Information check out the below video on how to create Affiliate Account and Run Ads.

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