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I logged on this morning to check out things on CreditMighty.com and to my surpise I'd earned my first commission! Yeah! This is exciting and feels great on a lot of levels, (not the least of which is that it proves that siteMighty works!). 

I haven't been too active in promoting CreditMighty yet, and so I really don't quite know where the traffic came from that lead to the commission, but I aim to find out.  As I've mentioned before, I am live blogging about everything that I am doing on the site and so what you see in the previous two blog posts is all I've done so far.  I've been a little bit slack about working on CreditMighty, but earning my first commission after less than a month as a user certainly is inspiring, so here we go. 

Here's what I did to find out that I had earned my first commission:

1. I logged into siteMighty this morning, and checked out my stats, located by clicking the [Analyze] link on the blue nav bar.  I noticed that I have been getting a decent amount of traffic over the past month.  What this "Offer Stats" page tracks page tracks is what we call conversions.  A conversion is a user to my site who clicks on the [apply] link to a credit card offer and then is transfered to a credit card application form.  We don't have any way of knowing if that user actually applied for that card (because the application is hosted on a secure web page by the credit card issuer), but we do know that he/she made it to the application page.  So, the stats presented here show me all the credit card offers that users have actually clicked through to the application page from CreditMighty.com.  During the course of the last 30 days, I can see that some cards had 4-5 conversion, while a good number of cards had at least 1 conversion.
   
2. Once I realized that CreditMighty had sent this much traffic over to the card application pages, I wanted to check to see if any of those people actually applied for the cards.  I logged into Icommissions (the affiliate network that provides the offers for CreditMighty).  From the Icommissions dashboard, I headed to the [reports] tab, and there I can see a snapshot view of all of the traffic I have generated from CreditMighty.  At the bottom of the screen I noticed that I have earned $5 in commissions.  Wow, that is a great start!
   

Now, I realized that I can't be paid by Icommissions yet, because I haven't filled out my W-9 yet.  So, I'm going to do this in the next blog post so I can get a check.  But for now, I'm celebrating my first commission earned by CreditMighty.com.  Plus, I beat Blake to earning the first commission. 

Keep reading, and good luck with your own siteMighty powered affiliate marketing websites.

PS: Just to be clear, I haven't actually begun any paid marketing campaigns for CreditMighty yet like PPC advertising.  I plan to, but right now, the only work I've done on the site so far has been this blogging, so its off to a good start.