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A numbered procedure that turns commission, conversion rate, reversal rate and payout window into an expected EPC and a go or no-go decision.
Step one is the multiplication. Take the conversion rate your page type realistically produces — 0.3–2.0% for reviews and listicles, 3.0–8.0% for comparison pages, 5.0–15.0% for dedicated offer pages — and multiply by the stated commission. At 1.5% and $35 the result is $0.53 per click; at 0.4% it is $0.14.
Step two is the comparison. Grade that expected EPC against the range for the traffic source: $0.02–0.20 display, $0.30–1.50 search, $1.00–4.00 in-content, $2.00–15.00 cashback. Below the range is a no-go regardless of how attractive the headline commission looks.
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Step three is the discount. Apply a 5–20% reversal assumption — a 15% reversal rate turns $40 approved into about $34 net — and check the attribution window against the 3–20 minute median click-to-conversion time. A 1-hour window loses later-day conversions that a 30-day window keeps, so two identical offers on different networks can pay differently.
Step four is the test budget. A decision needs roughly 200–500 clicks; at a 1% conversion rate that is 2–5 conversions, enough to catch a broken or mis-tagged tracking link but not enough to rank two working offers. Plan cash flow around the 30–90 day payout hold — money from a day-one test lands the following month or the one after.
Step five is the quality check. Across the first 500 clicks, watch for the patterns network quality teams audit for: a sudden 3× jump in clicks with flat conversion rate, a placeholder or incentivised-click landing page, and any cookie stuffing. A clean test reads clean; an inflated one reads exactly like those flags.
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