Getting started · 4 min read

Create custom referral links

Your referral links are how clicks turn into commission. In the glowDOLLARS dashboard, every site you follow gets its own ready-to-use affiliate link with your ref id already attached — no manual URL building required. Here's how to find, copy, and add them.

By The glowDOLLARS Editorial Desk

Find and copy your links

Sign in and open Affiliate links (/dashboard/links). You'll see one row per site you follow, showing the site name, your full tracked referral URL for that site, and a copy button. Click copy and paste the link wherever you're promoting — a banner alt, a deep-link from a review, a social post.

Links are gated behind approval. If your application is still under review, you'll see a locked state instead of the link rows; once approved, every followed site's link appears here automatically.

Add a link by following a site

There's a link per followed site, so adding a new link means following a new site. Head to Preferences (/dashboard/preferences), follow the site you want to promote, and its affiliate link appears on the Affiliate links page. Unfollow it and the link goes away. You never have to create a link yourself — the affiliate portal issues one for every site automatically.

If a row shows the site address but the copy button is greyed out, there is no tracked link for you yet. Usually that means your affiliate portal account isn't connected — head to Pairing (/dashboard/pairing) to link it. If it is connected, the site is still being set up in the portal and its link will appear on its own. We deliberately never hand you an untracked link, because it would look like it works while earning you nothing.

How the ref code behaves when you share it

The tracking code embedded in your link is what attributes a visitor to you. Share the link exactly as copied — it is case-sensitive, and editing any part of it breaks attribution. If you need to track placements separately, tag your traffic at the placement level rather than altering the link.

The 14-day cookie means a visitor who clicks today but signs up within two weeks is still attributed to you, so don't be tempted to use aggressive tactics that burn trust on the first visit. Honest, well-matched placements convert and retain better.

Put it into practice

Sign in to your partner dashboard to grab your links and start earning.

Sign in to dashboard

Keep reading

Want the bigger picture on traffic sources, conversion optimisation, and revshare strategy? Read the affiliate guides.