Affiliate Disclosure

The short version

Some outbound links are affiliate or referral links. If you order a card through them, we may earn a commission from the provider - at no additional cost to you. Rankings, scores, verdicts and the dead-cards archive are computed from published criteria and never sold or adjusted for deals (see methodology).

Current state

We are in a direct-link phase: most links point straight to the provider. Where a provider runs a public referral program, any code would be embedded in the direct link - same for every visitor, documented here, and never a ranking factor. Negotiated affiliate partnerships would replace those links via our central redirect; nothing changes on your side.

How the redirect works

Every outbound card link runs through /go/ on this site. We count clicks per card per day (no IPs, no profiles - see privacy) to know which reviews serve readers. The destination can change when a deal is signed; your experience cannot.

What we promise

No paid placements disguised as rankings. No removal of honest cons. No burying of discontinued, dead or scam-listed programs - those keep their warning reviews and lose their visit links entirely.

The programs themselves

Referral-program research is published on Best referral programs: reward structures and payout terms appear there as each program is verified against its official page, and each review carries the provider's program facts. That page compares the deals for potential partners - it does not change a single card score.