Why HealthScout?

HealthScout.com, winner of eHealthcareworld’s Silver Award for Best Health Portal, is one of the most visited and respected consumer health sites. HealthScout is a leading provider of personalized health management tools including health alerts, newsletters, Latest Recalls, Mini-Checkups, and family health pages. Reaching over 1.2 million unique users monthly, HealthScout.com is consistently ranked among the top 5 most visited consumer health sites

The HealthScout Network is a leading Internet provider and distributor of consumer health information, news and tools. The HealthScout Network hosts Health sections for over 200 affiliates including Yahoo, iWon, USAToday.com, InfoSpace and NBCi. Network sites have access to HealthScout’s syndicated personalized daily health news on over 800 topics, health information and interactive health management tools.

The HealthScout Affiliate Program enables you to add HealthScout’s co-branded health page or topic specific parsed newsfeeds to your Web site. Visitors to your site have the opportunity to read the most up-to-date health and lifestyle news and information on the Web.

What type of health news and tools are offered?

HealthScout provides on average 20 original health news stories each week day covering over 800 health topics. Some of the health topics featured are on women’s, men’s, kids’, seniors’, sex and relationship, alternative medicine, diet, fitness and looks, diseases & conditions, and addictions. HealthScout also offers a variety of health tools including a comprehensive 7-Minute Checkup, Mini-Checkups, Look Up A Drug, Find A Doctor, Health Site Guide, and 3 Health Encyclopedias.

How does the program work?

For a qualified co-branded site, the HealthScout affiliate program allows you to earn revenue based on an advertising sales revenue split. Contact our Business Development Department for details by e-mail . To obtain information about how to license the newsfeed only, e-mail .

What are the benefits of becoming an affiliate?

We enable Web sites to connect their users with the health news and information they need, tailored specifically to users' individual interests. Within an affiliate co-branded site, you will have:

Seamless Co-Branded Integration: the health news, information, and tools integrate directly into your site, matching your site's look and feel.

Custom Content: HealthScout's unique co-branded channel navigation builds audience affinity- and generates repeat visits- by delivering content tailored to users' individual demographic and topic interests.

Is my Web site eligible to become an affiliate?

To qualify as an affiliate, your site must generate 50 thousand or more unique monthly visitor. We reserve the right to refuse membership to a site or revoke a site’s membership at any time if we deem that it contains objectionable material.

What are my responsibilities as an affiliate?

Your only responsibility is to maintain your HealthScout co-brand or newsfeeds according to agreed upon placement of HealthScout content on your site.

Where can I find out technical specifications?

Your Business Development Representative will introduce you to our Affiliate Resource Center which covers frequently asked technical questions.