Check it Out: Cash for Social Sharing?

"The rebate shares are generating clicks and sales, and the shares and clicks give other traffic generators like internal and external search some extra oomph," notes Argentinis. "We've seen improvement in Google results for our Etsy shop as well as our internal Etsy search results."

Following its positive experience using Social Rebate on Etsy, Metal Pressions integrated the application onto its own e-commerce site in June. Following a custom integration process, Metal Pressions is already seeing higher rebate redemption rates than it did on Etsy. That redemption rate only figures to rise as the retailer gets into the busy holiday shopping season.