Welcome to the American Parkour Affiliate Information page.  If you are interested in signing up your Parkour or Freerunning website to become an official American Parkour Affiliate, please read the Requirements and Suggestions below. After reading the guidelines, please use the Become an Affiliate page to express your interest in becoming part of the APK Family!

Required Actions:

1. Placing an APK Affiliate banner on the main page of your website above the fold (the banner must be visible without scrolling). The four options are: 160x60, 160x160, 160x240, and 468x60. Once you become an Affiliate, we will provide you with the code to appropriately link to these images.

2. Place a link to (or copy/paste a version of onto your site) APK's “What is Parkour? What is Freerunning” prominently on your front page. This ensures that APK and all of its affiliates are presenting a uniform meaning and definition of Parkour and Freerunning.  
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   Your website has, and maintains, a mature and professional appearance. This includes, but is not limited to, the website layout and design, images, language, and behavior.
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   All content not created by the Affiliate must have the original author (if possible) and website it from credited.
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   APK reserves the right to cancel the affiliation at any time if it feels the Affiliate does not meet APK standards.
   
   

Suggested Actions:

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   We strongly encourage Affiliates to outsource their forums to the appropriate state-level forum of APK. This ensures that the local, state, and national communities are communicating and interacting. Having your official forum presence on APK will also bring more traffic back to your local site. New traceurs look to APK and its resources to find people near them.
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   We also strongly encourage Affiliates to make the APK Photo Gallery your official photo gallery. As part of the affiliate program, you will receive a state album where you can create sub-albums and upload pictures. This lets users browse one photo gallery and see all the pictures from all over country.
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   Post a link on your main page to the APK Tutorials page and APK's “Getting Started”. This ensures that when people find your site, they can easily and immediately have access to quality information on how to get started.
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   You are encouraged to sell locally branded gear. You also have the option of putting your local gear in the APK Store. You let us handle creation, inventory, shipping, and payment, and APK only takes a small commission to cover our expenses.
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   Link to or embed the APK Hotspots Map into your website. The more communities that use this, the more complete it will be and the better resource it will become.

Advantages: Integrating your website with American Parkour is mutually beneficial for both websites.   

1. It will increase the traffic and publicity of both websites.

2. It will improve the resources of both websites. Your users can contribute to the knowledge and information in the forums, add to the Hotspots map, and post their new videos for the whole country to see. They can also learn from a ton of people in the forums, find new hotspots or people to train with when traveling, and see a much wider variety of skills and styles in videos from all over the country.

3. Being affiliated with a national organization will improve your legitimacy in the eyes of people unfamiliar with Parkour.

4. You stay in control of running your website, APK does not take over or dictate what you do (aside from the few rules we set out earlier).  

5. Your community banner will be prominently displayed on the APK Affiliates Page, which will be a item under our "Connect" button.