For SEOMoz Staff - Can You Make a Better Referral Badge, PLEASE?

[Francisco_Meza]

I am going to send referrals to SEOMOZ and I want to put a badge on my site with my referral link from this page: http://www.seomoz.org/users/referrals

Can you make some banners where we can just select an image src with a call to action like "FREE SEO Tools" and "Free 30 Day Trail"? Currently the only badges I see say something wack like "I Love SEOMOZ" http://www.seomoz.org/dp/badges I need something that converts higher than "I love SEOmoz".

Love yah guys!

[JoannaLord]

Hey Francisco this is a great idea. We actually have a number of badges in the affiliate program platform but have yet to integrate them with the Referral Program. I'd like even more to have custom badges for the Refer A Friend program, but this is going to take a little bit given our design resources and dev resources (we'd need to integrate them into our internal platform}. Let me talk to a few people and see if I can't get this prioritized for Q1. At the least feel free to make a badge that you like and send over to me - joanna@seomoz.org and we can try to approve something on a temporary basis to keep you afloat until we can get more formalized options in there.

Thanks for the suggestion, its a great reminder to build these out!

Joanna

[Francisco_Meza]

Ahhh Joanna! I think you opened a can of worms! LOL

Now I'm confused. Are you saying that SEOmoz has a "Referral Program" and an "Affiliate Program"?

http://www.seomoz.org/dp/seomoz-pro-affiliate-program ($25 whether they join or not)

http://www.seomoz.org/users/referrals ($100 credit past 30 days)

Unless SEOMOZ really wants me to refer a personal friend (I don't have any friends) shouldn't the "referral" and "affiliate" program be the same program?

[JoannaLord]

Hey Francisco!

You are correct we have both. The affiliate program is designed for non-PRO members, and opens us up to working with networks of sites that are closely related to ours. The payout is $25 per lead.

The referral program is really meant for existing PRO members, and helps us reward our PRO members for recommending us to clients, friends, etc. The payout is $100 credit to your account.

The idea here is that we believe both PRO members and non-PRO members can have friends, visitors, etc. that might be interested in PRO. We wanted there to be options for sending qualified leads our way. We believe in rewarding anyone who mentions us, hence both options.

hope that helps clear it up!

Joanna