Affiliate Disclosure
Affiliate disclosure: Same Sample may earn a commission from some links on this page. The commercial relationship is stated next to each product, and products we have no approved affiliate relationship with carry ordinary links. Affiliate status and commission rates are not inputs to the scoring model.
Same Sample earns affiliate commissions. When you click a referral link and later buy a paid plan, the vendor pays us a share of that sale. You pay the same price either way, and the ranking order follows the published methodology, not commission rates.
What is an affiliate link?
A referral link carries a code identifying this site. If you buy after clicking it, the vendor pays us a percentage. The price you pay does not change.
Referral links on this site are marked in the page markup with rel="sponsored nofollow noopener", which is the attribute search engines expect on paid links.
Links that are not referral links, for example to a vendor's documentation or to a source we cite, carry no such marking and earn us nothing.
Do all the products on a comparison page carry a referral link?
No, and the gap is worth stating plainly. Of the five email finder tools compared here, one carries a referral link and four carry ordinary links, because Same Sample holds an approved affiliate relationship with Snov.io only. Two applications are pending and two vendors have none.
The intended policy is to link every product covered rather than only the top pick, so that revenue does not depend on which product a reader chooses. A page that links only its winner has a direct financial interest in that winner being chosen, and Same Sample would rather remove that pressure than ask readers to trust that it was resisted.
Reaching that state depends on the vendors, not on Same Sample, because each affiliate programme approves or refuses applications on its own terms. Until every product carries one, the honest position is the current one: the commercial relationship is printed next to each product and takes one of three values, approved affiliate, application pending, or none.
An earlier version of this page described that coverage as universal and current. The description was not true when it was published, and it has been corrected. The entry is logged on the corrections page rather than edited away quietly.
| Tool | Commercial relationship | Link type on this site |
|---|---|---|
| Snov.io | Approved affiliate | Referral link, marked rel sponsored nofollow noopener |
| Hunter.io | Application pending | Ordinary link, Same Sample earns nothing |
| Apollo.io | Application pending | Ordinary link, Same Sample earns nothing |
| Lusha | None | Ordinary link, Same Sample earns nothing |
| RocketReach | None | Ordinary link, Same Sample earns nothing |
How does this affect rankings?
Commission rates do not affect the order. Order follows the measured results published on the methodology page. Where a highly ranked tool pays us less than one below it, or nothing at all, we state that on the page.
Commission rates in this category vary by a factor of several times between vendors. If we ranked by revenue the order would look very different, and it would be visible to anyone who checked the affiliate programmes.
What do we not do?
We do not take payment for placement or for a better position, we do not let vendors review content before publication, and we do not run cashback, coupon or incentive offers on referral links.
Vendors and readers who spot a problem can write to [email protected]. Corrections are made in place with a note saying what changed and when.