About Good.ly
How does Good.ly help charities?
If you use Good.ly to make a product recommendation on Twitter, Facebook or anywhere else, and people click on and buy what you suggest, we give 55% of any earned referral fees to charity. The other 45% is used to run the service and continue marketing it. A simple purchase of anything recommended via a Good.ly link could raise cash for charities.
How are referral fees earned?
Across the web, many retailers use 'affiliate marketing' to help get people onto their sites. Retailers pay a commission for each sale sent to them through a link from other referring sites. To track these sales, the referring site will use a specific 'affiliate link'.
Good.ly is run by Skimlinks.com, a service that helps publishers earn revenues through affiliate marketing. When people click your Good.ly shortened links, we run it through Skimlinks, and make it an affiliate link where possible. If people buy anything based on your recommendations, a commission is earned. We work with 8,000 international retailers, so the more product and service recommendations you make using Good.ly, the more you can raise for charity.
What charities benefit?
We rotate attention to three charities each month, you can see the latest ones on our homepage. Contact us if you are a charity that would like to be featured.
Is this a charity cashback site?
No, Good.ly is a social recommendation service that lets people easily make and share product recommendations using microblogging platforms like Twitter. We have a way to monetise this and we want to share the proceeds with charities. To ensure our participating retailers continue to support us, we encourage all users to follow this code of conduct:
- Do not click on the links yourself - Good.ly is about making recommendations to others, its not a cashback site.
- Avoid making slanderous comments about products/services you link to via Good.ly
- Please don't abuse the system, this is a goodwill venture, and can only work if people use the system fairly.