By being an affiliate of Sierra Trading Post, you are automatically eligible to win any of the contest prizes.

You can nominate yourself for a contest. Sierra Trading Post will review affiliate websites for potential winners, but the only way to guarantee that we review your website is to nominate yourself. To nominate yourself, please send an email to affiliates@sierratradingpost.com with the subject heading of "Score 4 More nomination." You must provide the following information in your email:

Yes, you can nominate your own website, as well as other affiliate websites to win the contest/s. Please be sure to follow the same nomination guidelines listed above when you email nominations to us. Please note that the quantity of nominations we receive for any given site does not improve chances of winning - it only guarantees inclusion in our list of sites to review.

Yes! You can win both a $500 gift certificate and $1000 cash prize. However, you cannot win more than one gift certificate and/or more than one cash prize. If your statistics merit more than one prize from the same prize category, you will be awarded the prize that you have the greatest margin of success in, and the other prize that you are qualified for will go to the affiliate with the second-best statistics.

You will not find these statistics in your Linkshare reports, because we only track them in-house. If you'd like to know your new customer statistics, please send us an email with the following information:

You may have to experiment with this and get creative! Do you know where most of your new website visitors enter your website? Put our links there! Do you know where on your site people spend a lot of time? Put our links there! Do you have a search box on your page? Many people would rather use a search than click through categories - put our links on your search results page! Do you have a segmented email list that you haven't sent our promotions to? Try emailing different segments! These are just a few ideas to get your brain ticking - the more ideas you come up with, the better - good luck!

We will make every effort to deliver your prize as promptly as possible after the contest end date. The $500 Gift Certificates will be delivered to you via email by the end of the first week in December. The $1000 Cash Prizes will be added onto your paycheck for December sales. Providing Linkshare has no check-cutting delays, your December paycheck should reach you by mid to late January.

Unless we find reason to believe that cheating was involved in your attempt to win the contest/s, the awards we deliver are final and will not be revoked. You must remain in compliance with our affiliate terms and conditions in order to be an affiliate of Sierra Trading Post and participate in the contest.

We would like to publish the names, websites, quotes, and a brief description of each of the winners to show everyone why they best deserved the prizes. However, due to the competitive nature of the affiliate industry, publishing this information is not always acceptable. Screenshots of sites may be an option. We will work with the winners to decide what we can and cannot publish.