Affiliate Marketing

Since joining Stay22 approximately 2 1/2 years ago, they have quickly become my top affiliate partner and helped me earn over $30,000 in paid commissions and $37,000 in gross bookings overall.

This is impressive enough on its own, averaging out to just about $1,000/month in lifetime earnings. But one of my favorite things about Stay22 as an affiliate company is that they are constantly creating new and novel products to help travel bloggers earn money- like automatic link insertion, trigger offers, and so much more.

With the rollout of new products in recent months, my income has increased significantly. In May 2025, for example, I hit just over $1,750 in gross commission on about 120,000 page views on three sites (or about $14.50 RPM on a pageview basis).

Not bad at all!

So in this one, I thought I'd break down my earnings by product and share more about what you can expect from each when using Stay22!

Note: Data presented in this analysis will be shared in two ways. First, I'll share my overall earnings since joining Stay22 in November 2022 to June 2025 to show lifetime bookings. I will also break out the data on an average monthly figure starting from when the product first became available.

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This article is sponsored by Stay22. As always, all opinions are our own.

Stay22 has been a leading company in travel affiliate marketing for many years now, with its vast number of partnerships and unique technology to help website owners earn more money.

In 2025, Stay22 is expanding beyond the travel sphere and adding a new retail partner within the Nova product line. After a robust beta test, Stay22 will be rolling out the Retail program for all bloggers in the very near future- and they are accepting applicants for the waitlist before they launch!

So, what is the Retail affiliate program and how can you get in on it? We have all the details in this one!

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This article is sponsored by Stay22.

We've been fans of Stay22 for many years now, and take whatever opportunity we can to shout from the rooftops how much money they've made us in recent years (I just crossed over $27,000 in lifetime commissions with $700-$1,000+ per month- a massive increase from my previous earnings!).

We have seen a lot of new tools come out on Stay22 through early 2025, and if you have missed some of the announcements in our weekly newsletter, we thought we'd take a moment and share five of the newest products that we're digging on Stay22.

If you haven't signed up for Stay22 yet, get started today here, and read on to learn more about some new tools and products you may not have heard of!

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When it comes to utilizing Stay22, you are likely familiar with their popular tools like deep linking, maps, and the POP popup tool in the Let Me Allez toolset.

While you can likely make a great deal of money on your travel blog utilizing these tools in conventional ways, for this one, we wanted to look a bit deeper with some unique integration ideas and data analyses you may want to consider.

From figuring out what booking service your audience actually prefers to A/B testing ListView and Maps, to creating customized booking widgets with Optimized Redirect, we have some fun ideas in this one!

Note: This article was sponsored by Stay22. As always, all opinions are our own. Some of the methods provided in the below article require analysis or install methods not inherently included in Stay22 products. There may be other ways to get to the same result than the examples illustrated below, however. If you have an alternative idea, comment and share!

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There has been no company that has changed the affiliate marketing game for travel bloggers more in recent years than Stay22.

From their access to many brand partners on one single platform to unique products like Optimized Redirect and POP, it is easy to see why this one is quickly becoming an industry leader in all things travel affiliates.

But as Stay22 is still a somewhat young company, you may not be too familiar with what they're all about and some fun features you have at your disposal when joining. So in this one, we thought we'd share some facts about Stay22 you may not know about!

Note: This article has been sponsored by Stay22. As always, all opinions are our own.

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We're always on the lookout for new travel affiliates and products to help generate revenue on our travel blogs.

One company that has been making waves in recent years is Stay22, a 3rd party affiliate company with unique blogging tech like maps with live API pricing of hotels, optimized redirects, generous payout terms, and, as of early 2023, a unique pop-up tool aptly known as Nova (formerly called POP and renamed in mid-2024).

I put the Nova tool to the test on three of my blogs with travel content, and after collecting a year of performance data, I was truly shocked at what was found. This one product from Stay22 helped increase our annual revenue by $6,600- roughly doubling our hotel earnings in just a few minutes of installation work!

So in this one, I thought I'd share more about the Nova tool from Stay22, my performance data over the 12 months monitored, and draw a few conclusions about how Nova influenced my earnings.

Notes: I installed the scripts for Nova on January 13th, 2023. Data referenced as 2023-2024 follows 12 months starting on this date and does not account for any optimization time that may be present shortly after installation. Likewise, any data reported from the previous year, labeled 2022-2023, uses January 13th as the reference point- not calendar year, despite being fairly close. Other discrepancies or estimates will be noted when relevant. Finally, this article was sponsored by Stay22; however, all data points and expressed opinions are my own.

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