How the Reditus Affiliate Finder works

The Affiliate Finder finds potential affiliates for you on the open web. Based on your competitors and the keywords you want to be found on, it shows you the publishers who already recommend those competitors, often with an affiliate link, and the sites that rank for your keywords. You find it under Finder in the sidebar, on every plan.

It starts with your domain

Every new account gets a scan. When you sign up, you only enter your domain. From that, Reditus works out your competitors and the keywords you want to rank for, then looks at who links to those competitors and who ranks with content for those keywords.

Within about five minutes you see an overview of potential affiliates, including the ones already recommending your competitors with an affiliate link. You don't need to choose a plan for this.

Markets: what the Finder keeps track of

The Finder works in markets. A market is a set of countries, competitors and keywords that Reditus keeps tracking for you. A market can have up to 5 countries, and you can edit it later: change its competitors, keywords or countries. The trial has one market; on a paid plan you can add as many as you need.

When you add a new market, the first results come in about 10 minutes after you enter the details. Each run keeps about the 5,000 best results for that market. On a paid plan Reditus then keeps refreshing the market, and adds new findings as they appear: new sites that recommend your competitors, and new articles on your keywords. One export from an SEO tool would miss all of those.

How it finds potential affiliates

The Finder takes the backlinks that point at each of your competitors and checks the parameters in those links. That is how it sees who links with an affiliate link, which is the work you would otherwise do by hand in an SEO tool, competitor by competitor. For those results it shows the exact article where your competitor is mentioned with an affiliate link, and the publisher behind it, so your first email can be concrete: this is the article, this is where we'd fit.

It also finds who ranks with content for the keywords you want to rank for, and it shows whether each potential affiliate is cited in AI answers on those keywords.

What you see per potential affiliate

• A match score. The Finder uses AI to score how well each potential affiliate matches your company, and marks the best ones as a strong match.
• Why they match: whether they recommend one of your competitors and in which blog article, their other relevant articles, and the keywords they rank for.
• The site: its domain, domain authority and spam score.
• Whether they already use affiliate links. You can filter on it. Sites without affiliate links are listed too, and they can still be worth contacting.
• The type of site, such as a publisher, a blog or a newsletter. You can filter on that as well.
• AI citations: whether they are cited on the keywords you want to be found on. Open a potential affiliate to see much more detail.

Where to start with a long list

Say the Finder shows you 300 potential affiliates. Don't email all of them. Start with the ones marked as a strong match. If that still leaves a lot, keep the ones already using affiliate links, then filter on the site types you want, often publishers, bloggers and newsletters. That takes 300 down to about 50 or fewer: your shortlist.

Contact the sites that already recommend your competitors with an affiliate link first. They know your market and your competitors, they already have content that ranks (that is how the Finder found them) and they know how affiliate marketing works. If your product is good, there is little reason for them not to add you to the article they already have. You get a backlink and traffic from a page that already ranks. Five of these affiliates are worth more than 50 who have never heard of you.

For the first email, use the template for affiliates who promote a competitor in our affiliate recruitment email templates.

Trial and paid plans

The Affiliate Finder is on every plan and works the same on Growth, Scale Up and Enterprise. During the 14-day free trial you have one market and see its 10 best results. On a paid plan you see every result, and there is no limit on the number of markets.

What the Finder doesn't do

The Finder tells you whom to contact. It doesn't contact anyone for you, and there's no outreach inside Reditus: you qualify the leads, export them and reach out from your own email or outreach tool. Recruiting these affiliates, and getting them active once they join, is up to you. Campaigns help with the second part.

The people the Finder finds are not part of the Reditus network, and they are not vetted. They are publicly found potential affiliates who have not registered with Reditus. Looking for affiliates who joined Reditus and were approved by our team? That is the vetted affiliate database, on Scale Up and Enterprise: see how to recruit SaaS affiliates.

The Finder shows publicly available information. Not every result comes with contact details, because contact data goes stale quickly. How you use the information, for example how you contact the people you find, is your own responsibility under the GDPR. Anyone who wants to be removed from the Finder results can email privacy@getreditus.com, and we remove them.

Want a first look before you sign up?

The free AI Citation Finder on our website shows which articles AI answers cite in a category. It has far less detail than the Affiliate Finder in the app, which shows this per potential affiliate, on your own keywords.