Connect & Verify a Website
Connect your website to impact.com so that brands can see where you promote to your audience. You'll also need to verify your ownership of the website.
Why websites need to be verified
Verifying your ownership of a website is crucial to:
Ensure brand promotions on your properties are properly attributed.
Protect against malicious users claiming credit for your promotions.
Meet impact.com's payment requirements and ensure seamless future payouts.
Connect a website
From the top navigation bar, select
[User profile] → Settings.Under the Profile section, select Media Properties.
On the Promotional Channels screen, under Add new channels, select Website.
In the slide-out, enter your website URL.
Select one of the following methods to verify your website ownership.
If you successfully implement 1 of these verification methods, your website should be verified instantly.
Provide email address
Select this method if the email address you provided during account signup matches the domain of the website you want to verify.
Example: Your email address is dinahsoares@stark-industries.com and the website URL you provided is www.stark-industries.com. Because the domains are the same, the system will instantly verify your website.
Paste meta tag code
This code snippet is used to verify your media property so it can be approved and tracked within impact.com. It doesn't affect how your site looks or behaves.
Copy the provided code snippet and add it to your website's homepage HTML, inside the
<head>section.Place it at the top, before any other
<meta>tags. E.g.:
Select Add Website.
Paste tracking script code
This code snippet is impact.com's Publisher Tag, and apart from verifying your media properties, it can automatically turn regular links on your site into impact.com partner links. Learn more.
Copy the provided code snippet and add it to your website's homepage HTML, inside the
<head>section.Place it at the top, before any other
<script>tags. E.g.:
Select Add Website.
Edit content
Use this method if you want a no-code option.
Copy the provided text snippet and paste it anywhere in the page content of your site, e.g., in a paragraph or footer of your homepage.
Select Add Website.
Having trouble verifying your website? If you’re unable to verify via one of the above methods, contact support leaving a detailed message explaining what process you were following and how we can verify that you own the media property. When impact.com needs to perform the verification on your behalf, the waiting time is generally 3-5 business days.
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