Most affiliate links only pay out when a visitor buys in one country. Every click from somewhere else can end up worth nothing. Estimate what that is costing you.
Adjust the values below to estimate your international revenue loss.
This is your own adjustable estimate, not a published figure. It defaults to 60%: most affiliate links point to a single country's store, so most (not all) international buyers either abandon the purchase or buy from a local seller who does not credit your account. Adjust the number if you already know your real capture rate.
You're potentially losing
$3,502/year
from international commission your links never capture
$291.84
Monthly commission lost
$3,502
Annual commission lost
This assumes 60% of the sales your international visitors make land on a store your links do not credit, an estimate you set above and can change any time.
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Lost commission = monthly views × click-through rate × share of international traffic × conversion rate × average commission × your capture-loss estimate. Click-through and conversion ranges come from the same scenario benchmarks used in our broken link calculator. Results are illustrative and may vary based on your niche, audience, and affiliate programs.
Affiliate programs are built around a single storefront. Amazon Associates pays out on Amazon.com purchases, not on Amazon.de or Amazon.co.jp, unless you have separately registered and linked to those stores. The same split exists across most retail and SaaS affiliate programs. If your links only point to one country's checkout, every visitor buying from a different one is invisible to your dashboard, not because they did not buy, but because the link never sent them somewhere that credits you.
This shows up as a gap between traffic and revenue that is easy to miss. Your analytics show real clicks from real countries. Your commission statements do not reflect any of it, because the click, the redirect, and the sale never connected through a link that pays you for that visitor's country.
Geo-routing replaces one static affiliate link with a smart link that reads the visitor's country and sends them to the matching storefront, using the tag for that store. A single link can point a US visitor to Amazon.com, a UK visitor to Amazon.co.uk, and a German visitor to Amazon.de, each carrying your affiliate ID for that country's program.
Affilytics builds and hosts these routed links, then checks them on an ongoing basis so a broken redirect does not quietly reopen the same gap. You keep one link in your description or post; the routing and monitoring happen behind it.
The calculator multiplies your monthly views by a click-through rate and conversion rate for your chosen scenario, applies the share of your traffic that comes from outside your home market, then multiplies by your average commission and the capture-loss percentage you set. The capture-loss percentage is your own adjustable estimate of how much of that international commission never gets credited to you today.
Most affiliate links point to one country's store. A visitor from Germany who clicks a US Amazon link often lands on a page they cannot buy from, gets redirected without your tag, or gives up and buys locally instead. The clicks and interest are real. The commission is not, because the link never routes them to a store that pays you.
Geo-routing sends each visitor to the storefront for their own country while keeping your affiliate tag attached. Affilytics builds these routed links and monitors them for broken redirects, so international clicks convert into commission instead of a dead end. The Free plan covers this at no cost, and Pro is a flat $9 per month with a 14-day trial that does not require a card.
Affilytics geo-routes your affiliate links by visitor country, so international clicks convert into commission instead of a dead end. Free plan available; Pro is $9/month flat with a 14-day trial and no card required.
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