Affiliate program
Recommend these practice exams, keep 20%.
If you already write, teach or record for people studying Fortinet certifications, this pays you 20% of every single-exam license bought through your link. The whole program is on this page — what it pays, what it does not pay on, and the four things you may not say — so you can decide before you give anybody an email address.
What it pays
- Commission
- 20% of the sale price
- On
- The single-exam licenses
- Price of those
- $79 each, with 180 days of access
- Tracking and payment
- Lemon Squeezy
Commission is 20% of the sale price on Fortinet NSE 4 — FortiOS 7.6 Administrator, Fortinet NSE 5 — FortiAnalyzer 7.6 Analyst and Fortinet NSE 6 — FortiManager 7.6 Administrator, at $79 each, with 180 days of access.
It does not apply to the multi-exam licenses — Fortinet NSE track bundle and All-access — which are sold at a discount already. A visitor who arrives on your link and buys one of those is welcome, and it earns you nothing. That is stated here rather than discovered in a dashboard three weeks in.
Lemon Squeezy is the merchant of record for every sale on this site: they take the payment, handle the tax, and run the affiliate program on top of it. So you sign up with them, not with us. They issue your link, count the clicks and the orders, hold the commission through the refund window and pay you. We never see your bank details and we never handle the money. The attribution window, the payment method and the payment schedule are theirs, and they are shown to you in their dashboard when you sign up — they are not numbers we can quote on your behalf.
One thing worth knowing before you promote anything here: every license carries a pass-or-refund guarantee, set out on the refunds page. A refunded sale is a reversed commission, as it is with any program. That is the trade for selling something with a guarantee attached to it.
What you would be recommending
Check the product before you put your name near it. Two links do that faster than any pitch we could write here:
- The sourcing methodology — which Fortinet documents the questions are written from, what is refused outright, and what happens when we are wrong. Almost nobody in this market publishes this. It is the single most useful page to send a skeptical reader to, and you are welcome to link straight at it rather than at the sales page.
- The free readiness assessment — fifteen real items from the NSE 4 bank, with their explanations and their source links, in the browser, with no account and no payment.
Every question in every bank carries a link to the Fortinet page it was written from, and the reader can open it. Questions are never written from braindump sites, from anybody’s recalled exam, or from another vendor’s product. If that is not a claim you would be comfortable repeating to your own audience, do not join — check it first, and then decide.
Who this suits
It suits somebody who already has an audience of people studying for these exams: a blog or newsletter about Fortinet or network security, a YouTube channel that walks through FortiGate configuration, a study group, a lab-notes site, a training business whose students ask what to practice on before they book.
It does not suit coupon and deal sites, bulk email, or anybody whose plan is to buy ads on our own name. There is no volume tier and no bonus for signing up early. This is a small independent publisher with three exam banks, not a network — if you were hoping for a catalog of forty certifications to promote, this is not that, and it is not going to become that.
The rules, in full
Four of them. They exist because certification vendors watch this market closely and a single overreaching affiliate post attaches to the product it links to. Break one and the affiliate account is closed; nothing more dramatic than that, but it is not negotiated.
- Do not say the questions match the real exam. They are not the exam’s own questions, they are not modeled on them, and nobody here has seen them. They are written from Fortinet’s published objectives and published documentation. Say that instead — it is both true and more persuasive.
- Do not promise anybody a pass. No promised outcome, no promised score, no “you’ll be fine after this.” There is a pass-or-refund guarantee and you may describe it accurately: it is a refund of our fee, not a prediction about anyone’s result.
- Do not imply a relationship with Fortinet. Grindstone Prep has no relationship with Fortinet of any kind — no approval, no sponsorship, no partnership, no accreditation, nothing. Do not suggest in your copy that we have one, and do not use Fortinet’s logos, wordmarks or brand colors anywhere near our link. The notice at the foot of this page is the wording we use ourselves; you are welcome to reuse it word for word.
- Do not bid on our name in paid search. No bidding on “Grindstone Prep” or near-spellings of it in any paid-search auction, and no domain that reads as though it belongs to us. Somebody searching for us by name had already found us.
Tell your audience the link pays you. Plainly, near the link, not in a footer nobody scrolls to. It is required of you in most places and it is expected by every audience worth having. It also costs you nothing: people who trust a recommendation are not surprised that a recommendation earns something.
How to join
Sign-up is on Lemon Squeezy’s side and takes a few minutes. You will need an account with them to be paid.
Applications are read by a person, not a form. If you write about something adjacent and are not sure whether it fits — a general networking audience, a training business, a community you run — write to contact@grindstoneprep.com and ask before you apply. A short answer comes back from the same person who writes the questions.
Have a look at how the questions are written first, or at the exams and what they cost.