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See our affiliate disclosure for Modern Ratio’s mentality and approach to affiliate links. We would never ask you to write about something solely for the purpose of generating affiliate revenue. However, there will come times in your writing where you might be able to recommend a product or link to a relevant service—those are prime affiliate linking opportunities.
We use a plugin called Viglink that automatically turns regular links into affiliate links, so you don’t have to do anything special. Here’s a list of affiliate partners that are particularly relevant to Modern Ratio, plus their commission rates. This may even help you come up with pitches to write:
Amazon
When in doubt, you can always link to products on Amazon. These are automatically affiliated by one of our plugins, and we will earn affiliate commission according to the product’s category:
| Apparel | 4% | |
| Beauty | 6-10% | |
| Home Living | 5-8% |
Apparel
| Allen Edmonds | 4% | |
| Anthropologie | 16% | |
| ASOS | 17% | |
| Banana Republic | 4% | |
| Bloomingdales | 4% | |
| Brooks Brothers | 50% ? | |
| Carhartt | 4% | |
| Clarks | 4% | |
| Florsheim | 7% | |
| Foot Locker | 4% | |
| Joe’s New Balance Outlet | 4% | |
| Keds | 7% | |
| L.L. Bean | 4% | |
| Loft | 4% | |
| Macy’s | 13% | Preferred |
| Modcloth | 12% | |
| Nine West | 5-7% | |
| Nordstrom | 10% | Preferred |
| Nordstrom Rack | 4% | |
| Oakley | 6% | |
| Rockport | 10% | |
| Sperry | 6% | |
| Steve Madden | 8% | |
| Topman | 5% | |
| Trunk Club | 9% | |
| Vans | 6% |
Accessories
| Belt Outlet | 10% | |
| Eagle Creek | 6% | |
| Eyeglasses.com | 13% | |
| Glasses.com | 12% | |
| Vision Direct | 8% | |
| Warby Parker | 10% | Preferred |
| Zenni Optical | 3-8% | Preferred |
Fragrance
| Burberry | 7% | |
| Giorgio Armani Beauty | 8% | |
| John Varvatos | 10% | |
| L’Occitane | 5% | |
| Marc Jacobs Beauty | 8% | |
| Nautica | 3% | |
| Perfumania | 8% | Preferred |
| Perfume Emporium | 11% | Preferred |
| Yves Saint Laurent | 8-15% |
Beauty
| BH Cosmetics | 15% | |
| Creme de la Mer | 6% | |
| Giorgio Armani Beauty | 8% | |
| L’Occitane | 5% | |
| Lancome | 8% | |
| Macy’s | 13% | |
| Marc Jacobs Beauty | 8% | |
| Rite Aid | 2% | |
| Shiseido | 2% | |
| Sigma Beauty | 10% | |
| Stila Cosmetics | 6% | |
| Yves Saint Laurent | 8-15% |
Home Living
| Bed Bath and Beyond | 3% | |
| Dormify | 9% | |
| Dyson | 4% | |
| Just Blinds | 5-7% | |
| KitchenAid | 8% | |
| Office Designs | 5% | |
| Our Campus Market | 10% | |
| Pier 1 Imports | 7% | |
| Simple Human | 5% | |
| Sur La Table | 1% | |
| The Perfect Rug | 7-9% | |
| Wayfair | 8% | |
| West Elm (awaiting approval) | 3% | |
| Williams Sonoma (awaiting approval) | 3% |