If you work with clients on their websites - as a freelancer, a developer, a designer, or an SEO - you've probably already had the conversation about monitoring. Whether their site is up. Whether it's secure. Whether that SSL certificate is going to catch them out in three months.
Maybe you've recommended a tool. Maybe you've set it up for them. Maybe you just quietly keep an eye on things yourself and hope they don't notice when something needs fixing.
Here's another option: recommend SiteVitals, let them run their own account, and earn a recurring commission every time they pay - for as long as they stay subscribed.
How the SiteVitals affiliate programme works
It's straightforward. You refer a client to SiteVitals, they sign up on their own account, and you earn a commission on every payment they make - monthly or annual - for the lifetime of their subscription. There's no one-off referral fee and no expiry. If they're still paying in three years, you're still earning.
Commission rates are agreed on a case-by-case basis - we'd rather have a proper conversation than publish a number that doesn't fit everyone - but as a guide, expect somewhere in the region of 5–10% recurring.
For a client on the Marketer plan at £13.33 a month, that's a modest but genuinely passive income that adds up across a client base. And because SiteVitals gives clients something they can see the value of every month - alerts, reports, a timeline of what's changed on their site - they tend to stick around.
Why this works well if your clients prefer to handle their own tools
Not every client wants you to manage their subscriptions. Some prefer to own their own accounts, pay their own invoices, and be in control of their own data. That's completely reasonable - and this programme is built for exactly that situation.
You make the recommendation. They sign up themselves. You don't have to manage anything on their behalf, and they don't have to go through you to access their own monitoring. Everyone's happy.
If you do want to stay involved - reviewing their reports, helping them act on alerts, sharing access to their dashboard - that's easy too. SiteVitals doesn't charge per seat, so you can be added to their account (or they to yours) without it costing either of you anything extra.
A bit about SiteVitals
SiteVitals is built and operated by 18a Productions - a UK based web development house run by Lisa and Tom Freeman, who each have 25 years of professional experience building and maintaining websites for agencies and their clients. SiteVitals came out of that work directly: it's the tool they always wanted to have, built for the kind of people they've always worked alongside.
If you want to know more about what the tool does - and why it's designed the way it is - the agencies page is a good place to start.
Interested?
Get in touch and we'll have a conversation about what makes sense for you and your clients. Commission rates, how referrals work in practice, and any questions you've got.
You can reach us via the 18a contact page - just mention the affiliate programme and we'll take it from there.
Articles written collaboratively by the SiteVitals team.
