These terms apply when you join the SEOmatic affiliate program, run by SEOmatic and tracked through Klibon. They are written to be read, by you and by AI assistants.
1. Who Can Join
Anyone 18 or older with a payout account in their own name, approved by us. One partner account per person, and one per company. SEOmatic customers may apply like anyone else. A person reads every application within 2 business days; people we invite by email are approved when they accept. We may decline any application. Coupon, cashback and deal sites and advertisers who bid on our brand are not accepted. SEOmatic staff and contractors cannot earn.
2. What You Earn
30% of every payment a customer you referred makes to SEOmatic, for as long as that customer keeps paying, after discounts and refunds, before tax. It counts on monthly and yearly plans, upgrades, extra workspaces, credit packs and pay-as-you-go purchases; a yearly plan pays 30% of the yearly invoice.
If you leave the program, or we end your participation for a breach of these terms or for fraud, commission on later payments stops. If we end your participation for any other reason, or end the program (with 90 days' notice), you keep earning commission on the customers you referred before the end, for as long as they keep paying.
Not commissioned: the $1 trial fee, taxes, customers who already had an SEOmatic account before your referral (the same email address or the same payment card, also under a new account), your own accounts or your company's, any payment made with a card you have used on an SEOmatic account of your own, team invitations, accounts opened through a customer's invite link, referrals between two partners (each referring the other's account) or among more partners in a circle, and refunded or disputed payments.
3. How a Referral Is Credited
A click on your link stores your code for 120 days. Among clicks, the last one before signup wins; a partner code typed at signup wins over any click, and a code that is not a registered partner's never wins over one that is. At signup the code is saved on the account, so later payments count whatever device they come from.
A new customer may instead type your partner code at signup or in billing settings within 30 days of signing up and before their first payment, if the account has no referral yet. The partner code gives no discount. The first referral saved on an account is final, with one exception: a referral saved from a link whose code is not a registered partner's gives way to a partner code typed in billing settings within the same limits.
If you set up an SEOmatic account for a client and transfer its ownership to them within 60 days of the account's creation, the client's payments count for you as if they had signed up with your link, unless the account already has a referral or the client works at your own company. It counts only for an account you set up yourself: not one the client opened, and not one that had already changed hands. If you are still waiting for approval when you hand it over, its payments wait until you are approved. The client pays with their own card: hand the account over before its first checkout, and let the client enter their card there. A card entered while the account is yours counts as your card, so no payment made with it earns anything, also after the handover. A payment made while you own the account again earns nothing either.
An account that someone transfers to a customer you referred does not count under that customer's referral. It counts for you only under the handoff rule above.
One referral earns one reward: an account opened through a customer's invite link earns that customer free credits, and no commission.
4. Hold, Statements and Payment
Each commission is held 30 days after the payment, on monthly and yearly plans alike, then approved. Approved commissions and mission rewards form a monthly statement on the 1st in Klibon. We pay statements of $50 or more within the first week of the month, in US dollars, by bank transfer or Wise, or PayPal on request. Neither we nor Klibon take a cut, and we pay our own sending fee; what your bank or PayPal charges to receive the money, and any currency conversion, is yours. Smaller balances carry over to the next statement and never expire. If your participation ends, what remains is paid once its hold has passed, whatever its size, unless it is forfeited under "Ending".
We may hold a commission back while we check a referral, for example when a customer signed up in your own browser, when the customer is a partner too, or when an account handed over to a client had already paid before the handover. We pay it once the check is done, or tell you why not. Commissions also wait while your partnership is not yet approved in our records or is paused, and are released when it is active.
If a statement looks wrong, tell us within 30 days of its date and we check it against our records; after 30 days it is final.
US affiliates send a W-9 and others a W-8BEN (W-8BEN-E for a company) before the first payment; companies send an invoice for each statement. You are responsible for your own taxes.
5. Refunds After Payment
If a payment we paid commission on is later refunded or disputed, that commission is deducted from your next statements. If there is no later statement to deduct it from, or your participation has ended, you owe it back and we send you an invoice for it (see "Ending"). Money already paid for payments that stood is never taken back.
6. Missions
Mission rewards, from $25 to $500, are listed in your Klibon dashboard with their conditions. A reward is paid once its conditions are met and we approve your proof; content must be indexed and live for 30 days before approval, and a reward is deducted if the content comes down within 90 days. The reward for your first paying customer is paid after that customer's second monthly payment or, on a yearly plan, once their payment is past the 30-day hold. Paid content is advertising and must be labeled as such. We never pay for reviews on G2, Capterra, Trustpilot, Google or similar sites, for signups and clicks, or for recruiting other affiliates.
Each quarter, the three partners with the most referred customers still paying at the end of the quarter win $500, $250 and $100, paid as a mission reward; we count from our own records of paying customers. A customer counts as still paying when a plan payment of theirs that earned you commission, and was not refunded in full, falls in the last 40 days of the quarter on a monthly plan, or in the last 370 days on a yearly plan; credit packs and pay-as-you-go alone do not count.
7. A Free SEOmatic Workspace
We may give you SEOmatic free once a customer you referred has paid and that payment is past the 30-day hold, or by invitation. It is for one site of your own, lasts while a customer you referred keeps paying plus 60 days, is given by hand to at most 25 workspaces at a time, and can end with 14 days' notice. You must say you use SEOmatic free when you recommend it.
8. How You Promote SEOmatic
Say you earn a commission next to every link, in plain words. Only claim what is true; never promise rankings, traffic, leads or timelines.
Never: ads on "SEOmatic" or its misspellings; coupon, cashback, rebate or deal sites; calling the $1 trial a coupon, deal or discount; passing part of your commission to anyone; spam; reviews on G2, Capterra, Trustpilot, Google or similar sites for a reward; mass-produced AI pages; tools that insert your link into other pages or AI answers; posting by bots or automated accounts; hidden text or instructions aimed at AI assistants; pretending to be SEOmatic. Use our name and logo only as shown in the brand guide in the partner kit.
9. Ending
You can leave at any time; commission on later payments then stops. We can end your participation with notice without giving a reason: you then keep earning commission on the customers you referred before the end, for as long as they keep paying. For a breach of these terms or for fraud we can end it at once: commission on later payments stops, and unpaid commissions and rewards tied to the breach are forfeited. In every case, what you earned before the end and is not tied to a breach is paid, whatever its size. If a payment we already paid you commission on is refunded or disputed after your participation ended, or there is no later statement to deduct it from, you owe that commission back and we send you an invoice for it.
10. Data
Klibon (Uneed Platform, Nantes, France) runs the tracking, your dashboard and your statements. We send Klibon only what it needs to credit you: your referral code, a pseudonymous customer id, the amount and currency of each payment, and our reference ids for the payment and the subscription. We never send Klibon a customer's name, email address or IP address, and we never share customers' contact details with you. A click on your link passes through Klibon's redirect, which sees the visitor's IP address as any web server does; Klibon says it keeps only a salted hash of it. To spot a partner referring themselves, we keep with each referral the signals described in our privacy policy, which has the details.
While someone you sent browses our site, it can show the line "Recommended by" with your studio or business name, never your personal name. Tell us if you would rather it did not.
11. Changes
We can change these terms with 30 days' notice by email. A change never reduces commission on customers you referred before it, and a new rate applies only to customers referred after the date we announce it.
12. Liability and Law
Our total liability is limited to commissions owed to you. These terms are governed by French law; disputes go to the courts of Paris, France. Questions: contact@seomatic.ai.
