StockMedia.net Searchable Banners

Stock Media's Preferred Partner Program™

Test Drive It.
Here is a sample searchable banner.
Affiliates choose from five default options or can adapt the default banners to specific needs. Searchable banners can search from anywhere on the Internet or on CD if there is a live Internet connection.

Enter keywords to search in English
Click the "Go" button

Search:

The resulting images have been intentionally limited to those of one agency, Stock Connection, to illustrate the ability of the program to act as an exclusive tool for individual content providers - a unique feature.

Create It
Here is how to add a searchable Stock Media link to your web page (or CD catalog with a live internet connection). This can deliver your images (or those of others) as search results and earn you additional commissions for sales generated from your qualified client referrals for up to 12 months.

To participate, you must first be registered at the most basic level. If you are not already registered, click on "Log In" button at www.stockfotos.com. Enter your email, password, and country.

To receive affiliate sales commissions, you must then upgrade your client-level registration to that of a supplier or affiliate. (Suppliers are automatically affiliates.) To do so, you will need to apply online at the Stock Media corporate site.

Go to stockmedia.net/corporate. Mouse over the "Info" button in the blue circle, and choose "affiliates" from the menu on the left. Then choose the online registration button. (Affiliate registration is automatic and immediate.)

Now that you are a registered affiliate (or supplier), go to any Stock Media network site, such as www.stockfotos.com. Click on the "account" button in the navigation bar, then on the "code and banners" sub menu on the right side.

The topmost pull down menu gives you a choice of five ready-made options for ad banners, buttons and email promotions. Review all five to select the right size and functionality that you want. (The banners display further down the page after each release of the "choose banner" pull down menu.)

After picking the banner type, now you set the search criteria to be included in the search link. Since you can opt to choose a button link that has no search criteria input from the user at all, you'll notice several options to preprogram your search criteria, thus making those choices on behalf of your users. Those options are as follows:

1) Select the language

Enter the language in which the keyword search will be made. (English is the most likely.)

2) Select the country of use

Enter the most likely country of the office of your clients home base. (This only applies as a substitute if the client doing the searching - a first time visitor - has not yet registered their own country.)

3) Select a domain to search

Enter one domain as the default search. We recommend StockFotos.com, StockDV.com or StockSounds.com which will be the primary databases for most media types. Again, this default is only used if the client does not enter their own choice.

Note: The next set of default settings will substantially limit the user search. Stock Media recommends to not enter either of these limitations. Doing so will greatly reduce your potential sales commissions. Leave blank for unlimited searches.

4) Enter keyword limits

Be sure to test your results. Do not enter words that find nothing. (We recommend leaving this field blank to not limit searches by keyword.)

5) Enter the Source ID limiter

IF you are a registered supplier ... by entering your source ID, users will find your content and only your content when searching from your banner. This option permits you to use Stock Media as a back-end database to your site so that clients who make searches from your site will only view your content. Where it says, "your source ID number is 'xxxxxx'", this is your actual source ID number. Enter it into the Source ID limiter to restrict search results to just your content.

6) Click the "update code" button for the computer to recalculate the HTML with your changes included.

7) Copy the code

Select all and copy the HTML code in the scrolling box near the bottom. This code then needs to be inserted into your web page inside the body of that HTML page. After inserting code, your banner will then appear to your site visitors.

You can use this code in many ways. One format can be easily emailed to your email list. Another is ideal for ad banners used in free banner exchanges around the web. A web designer can also customize the code with your logo and branding, enhancing our ready-made formats.

In all cases, clients who search via your Preferred Partner banner will be "branded" as your client upon entering and registering at a StockMedia site if they have not already registered. Once branded, you will be paid a commission based on the published commission schedule for one full year on all purchases made by that client, whether of your content or that of others. There are some rules, limitations and details. Be sure to read the rules.

No other site offers you the capacity to search your content in an ecommerce engine for free, and get paid for referring qualified clients, in addition to any royalties you might receive. This is a very significant tool that empowers creators and their agents. (If you are an agent, keep in mind that all of your photographers or other creators can create banners that produce search results of your agency's content, further limited to the creator's name as a keyword.)

If you have questions, please contact us at info@stockmedia.net

Thank you for your participation.

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