New Webmaster requirements
What is mobile traffic?
Mobile traffic refers to visitors that access your website via hand held devices such as iPhone, iPod, PSP, Blackberry, etc. Mobile traffic represents approximately 1-5% of the overall traffic to your site and can be filtered or redirected through the Java or PHP scripts that are available from topbucksmobile.com
What mobile tools/free content does TopBucksMobile offer?
TopBucksMobile offers a generous variety of tools and content to promote via mobile. We offer webmasters quality banners and mpeg4 videos that are optimized for faster loading time on mobile devices. We have extra tools that many other programs do not such as games and customized wallpapers and fansigns. Blogs, podcasts and RSS feeds are also available to keep your mobile customers up to date.
How do I filter my mobile traffic?
We offer an easy-to-use optimized mobile redirect script in both JavaScript and PHP. It's important to utilize a proven mobile redirect script to ensure that you optimize your mobile traffic while maintaining your PC/Web traffic. If you have problems implementing the mobile redirect script on your sites, please contact
support@topbucks.com or your account manager for assistance.
How can I optimize for mobile without a mobile site?
If you don't have a mobile site of your own and you send regular sales TopBucks can offer you a whitelabel of one of our mobile sites customized to your site's look and feel. Just hit up your account manager or contact
support@topbucks.com to inquire about the whitelabels and other mobile opportunities.
New Webmaster requirements
Do I need a site (URL) before promoting TopBucks?
Yes, it also must be active, functioning and adult oriented. The URL must be adult related. Non-adult free hosted domains, such as, GeoCities, AngelFire, Yahoo, MSN, MySpace, etc. will not be accepted. If you would like to promote our sites via search engines or other methods that do not require a URL, please note that in the comments field when you signup for an account.
Do I need to have a certain amount of traffic coming to my site per month?
No.
Do you allow celebrity sites?
No. We also do not allow sites containing/referencing Disney pics or vids.
Can I use one account for all the websites?
You need only one account to advertise all of our sites within the TopBucks program.
How do I know if my new account signup is accepted?
All new accounts are verified manually and are approved or declined. You will receive an email within one business day with either your new login or reason for the decline. To avoid missing the emails, please add the following domains to your approved email list: topbucks.com and @topbucksmobile.com
TopBucks Promotion Questions
How do I log into TopBucks?
Once you sign up and submit a webmaster application, your application will be manually approved and your log in information will be e-mailed to you. If you do not receive a notice from us within 24 hours please
contact us.
Where do I get my "linking code" to use your banners?
Once you login, click on the "Linking Codes" button to generate your codes. Your webmaster ID will be automatically included in the codes generated.
Can I link to a specific page or model in a tour?
Yes. In the linking codes section, there is an option called "Link To Episode & Trailers".
Can I load your site in a frame?
You can not promote our standard sites within a frame. However you can promote our console free sites within a frame.
Can I send traffic directly to the Join Page?
Yes. You need to use the special join page link that we provide in the linking code section of TopBucks. You may not falsely advertise TopBucks sites and send to our join page. Any webmaster account found doing this will be shut down.
I cannot download the free content (zip files).
Please make sure you are not using any kind of download manager. Use a browser such as IE, Netscape or Firefox. If you are behind a firewall or use a popup blocker, please disable it to download the content. Spyware may also cause content to not be downloaded. Run a spyware remover and try to download the content again.
Can I use the free content (pics/videos) to submit to TGP sites, AVS sites, etc?
You may use the free content as long as you are using it to promote TopBucks.
How do I get the FHG links working with my TGP script?
In order to make our links work, you will have to change the variables in the URL(s). Our encode tool may be found
here. Please note that you may have to login to your account to access this tool and this encoder works with some scripts.
Do You Offer Free Hosting?
Yes, we offer active TopBucks webmasters who send 5 or more sales per month free hosting for up to 5 gigs and 40gb of bandwidth per month. We require that you provide us your url as we don't allow hosting on our domains. Please contact
support@topbucks.com and we'll hook you up.
When is the downloadable content updated?
Every site will be updated bi-weekly. For example, AsianParade will have new content added the 1st and 3rd week of every month.
Stats Questions
How do I check on the amount of clicks and/or sign-ups I have sent?
All stats are updated hourly and click stats have a 10-15 minute delay. Just login to TopBucks with your user ID and click on Statistics > Stats Summary then select the stats criteria you wish to view. Clicks are tracked by 1st page, 2nd page, trailer views, and join page.
Why do sales/clicks end up as "No referer" in the "Site Report - View by URL Referrer"?
Visitors with bad or excessively long referring URLs.
Old and strange browsers that do not send the referrer.
Mailings, popups, frames, etc. that cause the referrer to not be passed properly.
Sales with no referring URL associated with it.
What is Bonus/Compensation in the bottom of my stats?
This is added to your stats summary if we had any down time during promotions or otherwise.
Pay Out Questions
How much does TopBucks Pay?
Per Signup Up: The payout depends on the sales you make per pay period.
$20 per sale for 0-9 signups in a pay period
$25 per sale for 10-70 signups in a pay period
$30 per sale for 71-149 signups in a pay period
$35 per sale for 150-349 signups in a pay period
$37 per sale for 350+ signups in a pay period
These increases are not automatic so you must
contact us.
$10 on check sales, $10 on web900 sales and $15-$20 on mobile sales
Revenue Share: 60% lifetime recurring
When and how do I get paid?
We send payments once a month for the commission you earned in the previous month. No pending transactions, no estimates. Payments are submitted on or by the 8th of every month only if you obtain sales totaling the minimum that is set by the payment option you have chose on your account. If the minimum has not been reached, it will carried over to the next pay period until your account has met the minimum. The following is a schedule for the estimated time for each payment option:
Check by mail: Payments are sent via standard USPS please allow for 5 business days for webmasters in the U.S. and at least 15 business days for International
Check by UPS: Payments are sent via the next business day option.
Direct Deposit: Payments will reach your bank account within 2 business days.
Wire: All wires may take 3 to 4 days to clear and reach your bank account.
Paxum: Payments will reach your Paxum account within 2-5 business days.
The minimums are: $100 for check and direct deposit, $200 for Paxum, $1000 for UPS and $2000 for wire. Fees apply for the following payment methods: $40 for US webmasters and $80 for International webmasters on UPS payments and $40 for wire and $1 for Paxum.
Will I receive one check for the combined amount?
No, you will receive a check for each account.
I have not received a check, what should I do?
Due to variations in mail, TopBucks cannot guarantee that your check will always arrive within an expected period. For U.S. webmasters we ask that you wait at least 25 days after your check has been sent before asking for a reissued check. For International webmasters we ask that you wait at least 40 days before asking for a reissued check. In all cases where a check needs to be reissued there will be a $50 Stop Payment Fee deducted from the amount. TopBucks will not reissue checks that are more then 6 months old. Please keep in mind that you have to earn a minimum of $100.00 to receive a check. Please note that any changes made to your account which affect payout must be made 4 days prior to the payout date. To cancel a check, please
click here.
How do I change my payment information in my profile?
To change any information on profile please log into TopBucks and select "
Edit Info" from the menu. You can change your address, phone number and method of payment. To make any other changes, please
email us the information that needs to be changed and the previous information and password (for verification purposes). All changes are usually completed the same day that e-mail is received.
How much is paid on PinkVisual DVD sales?
You will be paid 40% of the customers purchase(s). For example, if a customer buys $100 worth of DVDs, your earnings will be $40.
How much is paid on topbucks mobile sites?
You will be paid up to $20 per signup or 60% revenue share on all mobile sites, depending on which program you are on.
Why did I make five cents on a sale when I'm on the PPS program?
Some countries do not use credit cards so with these given countries, we have implemented a micro-billing SMS solution. The amounts per transaction are very small, however, without these micro-billing transactions, there would be no revenue gained at all. Our webmasters receive 50% of the money generated from these micro-transactions.
General | Troubleshooting
What makes TopBucks sites special?
TopBucks offers many options to keep members coming back! Some of the many features include: model search, download to iPod, quick overview of updates, total number of videos and total number of weekly episodes added.
I forgot my password / user ID, what should I do?
Contacting TopBucks
If you have a question please be sure to carefully read the FAQ above. If your question has not been answered then please
email us.