Last updated July 9, 2026
How affiliate links work
Some links may route to retailers, marketplaces, or specialty shops that can pay commissions or referral fees. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases; Fitment Pilot also participates in the eBay Partner Network.
A seller link should be opened only after a shopper chooses it. Page views, saved-garage actions, passive browsing, crawlers, hidden frames, forced redirects, and automated traffic should not generate affiliate clicks or cookies.
Affiliate compensation does not change the price you see from the retailer unless that retailer applies its own promotion, shipping, tax, or coupon rules.
Partner IDs, approved deep-link templates, and feed access are added only after programs approve the live domain and their merchant terms are recorded.
Recommendation standards
Offer ranking should consider verified fitment, price, stock, seller quality, return posture, product details, and bad-deal rules.
Low-quality deals can remain viewable for transparency, but the interface should make weak deal quality clear.
We do not use fake ratings, fake review counts, or unavailable prices in structured data.
Disclosure and link controls
Seller calls to action are labeled as seller or price actions and use sponsored or nofollow link attributes where applicable.
Outbound seller redirects stay out of the sitemap, and robots rules exclude /out/ so crawlers are not treated like shoppers.
Fitment Pilot does not use downloadable software, browser extensions, forced popups, cashback incentives, loyalty rewards, adware, or link-injection tools for public shopping links.
Why some sellers are not linked
Some seller options appear without a live link. Fitment Pilot uses an affiliate link only after that seller's program has approved this site, so unsupported affiliate links are not used.
Paid search must not bid on merchant brand terms or send product-listing ads that compete with merchant ads unless a merchant explicitly allows it.
Fitment Pilot does not alter HTTP referrers, mask source URLs, create merchant-trademark domains, or present itself as a seller's official site.
Price and stock data
Price history and stock status are snapshots. A retailer's current checkout page is the source of truth at purchase time.
Automated monitoring must follow partner permissions, feed rules, and crawl limits.
Launch dependency
Many affiliate programs require fitmentpilot.com to be live with useful content and trust pages before application review.
Because of that, partner applications follow the public launch baseline rather than preceding it.
