WorkShoeFinder

Affiliate Disclosure

How affiliate links work on this site.

Last updated: 2026-05-05.

The short version

WorkShoeFinder participates in affiliate programs. Some retailer links on shoe pages pay us a commission when you click through and buy. Commissions do not decide which shoes are recommended, do not change the price you pay, and do not change the cited facts on a shoe page. Recommendations rank shoes by fit for the job first, then by which retailer offer is best for the buyer. Affiliate payout is allowed only as a tiebreaker between offers that are otherwise equal.

Programs we participate in

As of the date above, the only currently-active affiliate program is Amazon Associates. Amazon offer rows on shoe pages may use a tagged link; clicking such a link credits the purchase to WorkShoeFinder if it happens within Amazon's session window.

Other programs (Rakuten Advertising for Zappos; Impact for direct brand stores like Crocs and Hoka; FlexOffers; etc.) are not yet approved. Until each one moves to active, the corresponding retailer offers ship with plain product URLs and earn nothing. We still link to those retailers when their offer is the right one for the buyer.

How recommendations are decided

  • Fit for the job comes first. Job pages, problem pages, and feature pages rank shoes by how well they match the cited claims for that page's use case.
  • Within the picks, the offer table is editorial. We list retailers a buyer would actually find useful (direct brand store, large retailers, and Amazon when present), and sort by buyer usefulness (stock, fit, return policy, price) rather than by which one pays us.
  • Commission cannot decide a ranking by itself. If two shoes are otherwise equally well-matched, we may use commission as a tiebreaker. It is never the primary signal, never a multiplier on fit scores, and never the reason a shoe lands on a job page.

What affiliate links do not change

  • The price you pay. Affiliate links are tracked links to the retailer's normal product page; you pay the retailer's normal price.
  • The cited facts on the page. Spec claims (slip resistance, ASTM standards, materials, widths) come from brand product pages and are cited per claim. They do not change when an affiliate program is added or removed.
  • Which retailers we list. We list retailers based on whether they actually carry the shoe and whether the page is useful, not on commission rate.

Per-page disclosure

Every shoe page that has an affiliate-linked offer renders a short affiliate disclosure inside the page itself. This site-wide page expands on that with the full picture.

Amazon-specific notes

As an Amazon Associate, WorkShoeFinder earns a commission from qualifying purchases made through tagged Amazon links. Amazon links on shoe pages are added one at a time after a researcher verifies that the listing matches the catalog shoe (correct brand, model, gender, color). Wrong-variant Amazon listings are rejected, not linked.

Hard rules

  • Commission cannot decide a ranking by itself.
  • No affiliate URL is added until the program approval is confirmed.
  • Image rights are tracked separately from affiliate approval. Joining an affiliate program does not, by itself, grant the right to display the brand's product images. Until image rights are confirmed in writing, shoe pages render a neutral placeholder glyph instead of a brand photo.
  • Amazon listings are not used as a source of spec facts. Spec claims come from brand pages.

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