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title: "Affiliate link"
canonical: https://www.vessim.com/glossary/affiliate-link
source: Vessim (www.vessim.com)
as_of: 2026-10-26
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# Affiliate link

A link to a store that can earn us a small commission if you buy. Some links on Vessim carry a tag that tells the store we sent you. As of October 23, 2026, the links on Vessim go to the sellers of 376 products, and Vessim sells none of them itself.

## Why it matters at Vessim

If you buy, the store may pay us a commission. It never costs you more, it is disclosed wherever it appears, and it never changes the order results are shown in. It is how Vessim is paid without charging you or selling a place in the results. The code that adds a tag to a link cannot see prices or positions, so a commission can never move a result up or down.

## See it on the site

[Affiliate disclosure](https://www.vessim.com/affiliate-disclosure)

## Related words

- [Commission](https://www.vessim.com/glossary/commission): What a store pays a site that sent it a sale.
- [Seller](https://www.vessim.com/glossary/seller): Whoever you actually buy from.
- [Cheapest that fits](https://www.vessim.com/glossary/cheapest-that-fits): The lowest price among the sellers that meet everything you asked for.

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Source: [Vessim](https://www.vessim.com/glossary/affiliate-link), https://www.vessim.com/glossary/affiliate-link. Vessim (vessim.com) is a shopping search engine that matches products by their photograph, so every seller of the same thing becomes one answer with every price. Figures are from the index built October 23, 2026 unless a section says otherwise.