How the ranking works

Order is decided by one input only: what each advertiser bid. There is no scoring model, no weighting and no editorial adjustment.

Position is price, nothing else

Listings are sorted by bid, highest first. Spot #1 currently stands at $. Because every bid is displayed on its listing, the ranking is fully auditable from the page itself — you can see what each position cost and what it would take to move above it.

Nothing about a program's commission rate, cookie window or click volume affects where it sits. Those figures are shown so you can judge an offer on its merits, not because they feed the order.

What the metrics mean

• Commission — the headline payout as published by the program: revenue share, CPA, or a hybrid.
• Cookie — the attribution window the program credits to the referring affiliate.
• Clicks this month — outbound clicks from this directory to that program, counted server-side, deduplicated per visitor and refreshed daily.

Free listings sit below paid ones

Programs listed at no cost appear at the bottom of the ranking, marked $0 bid. They are held to the same eligibility rules as paid listings; the only difference is placement.

Why an auction rather than a review

"Best of" directories usually rank on undisclosed commercial terms while presenting themselves as editorial. Running the ranking as a public auction with a $50 minimum makes the commercial relationship the visible mechanism instead of a hidden one. Every outbound link is marked sponsored nofollow, so the ranking passes no authority and buys no endorsement.