I don't get how the affiliate program works. I've been getting sales from affiliates. Are these people selling my products on their shops? How do I find these shops? Just curious.

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Short answer, you can't.. You can always find who is linking to your shop and products from the search engines, but not all affiliate sales are from links to you directly. They may be from links to a marketplace page or a general cafepress link.

Also, shops have nothing to do with affiliates. Affiliates link to CafePress from their own websites. Affiliate links do not work within shops.

You are getting sales from affiliates because your shop is opted into the marketplace. This makes it available to affiliates to help you market your designs.

Hope that helps!

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They may be from links to a marketplace page or a general cafepress link.

And they may not link at all. I affiliate every design that's affiliate-able, and the traffic stays on my site except for the cart functions.

On way to see some of your affiliates is to do Google searches for some of your product names or store name or some combination of them and see if they show up on anyone's site.

Thanks guys. That clears it up.