Affiliate disclosure

The short version

Cleat & Cone earns a commission when you buy something through a link on this site. It costs you nothing extra, and it never changes which product we recommend.

A shorter version of that appears above the fold on every page that recommends a product, because a disclosure buried in a footer is not a disclosure anybody reads.

The Amazon Associates statement

Cleat & Cone is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases.

How the links work

Every product link on this site routes through our own /go/ redirect before reaching the retailer. That does two things: it lets us track which recommendations people find useful, and it means that if a retailer relationship ever changes we can update one configuration entry rather than editing dozens of pages.

The link carries our Amazon Associates tracking tag, mmg-cleatcone-20. That tag is how Amazon knows a purchase came from here. It does not change the price you pay, and it does not identify you to us.

Every affiliate link on the site is marked with rel="sponsored nofollow" in the page source, which is how search engines are told the link is commercial. Links to sources, standards bodies and manufacturers’ information pages are ordinary links and are not monetized.

Amazon is currently the only retailer we earn from

At launch, Amazon is the only affiliate program this site participates in. Where we mention a brand’s own store or another retailer — Nike, adidas, a specialist soccer shop — those links are plain and we earn nothing from them. If that ever changes we will say so here and mark the links accordingly.

Commission does not decide the ranking

This is the part that matters, so it is worth being concrete about how it plays out rather than just asserting it.

• Our cheapest recommendations earn us the least, and several of our top picks are the cheapest option in their category — the adidas Goletto in budget cleats and the Franklin rebounder in rebounders both earn us less than the alternatives we ranked below them.
• Several pages actively argue you should not buy the thing they are about. Toddler cleats opens by explaining that most toddler programs do not require cleats. Grip socks concludes they are hard to justify below about U12.
• Where the honest answer is “you already own something that will do” or “wait a year”, we say that.

We would rather be the site a parent trusts for a decade than earn an extra few percent on one purchase.

What we will not do

• Accept free products in exchange for coverage.
• Publish a price we have not verified. We hold no live pricing — our price data file is dated September 27, 2026 — so every buy button opens the current retailer listing rather than quoting a number that would be out of date. If live prices are ever added, they will carry an “as of” date and will disappear automatically once stale.
• Publish ratings or review counts. We hold no review data of our own, so there are none anywhere on this site.
• Claim to have tested products. We have not. The full method, including the limits, is on how we pick.
• Use fake urgency. No countdowns, no “selling fast”, no invented scarcity.

Prices change and stock runs out

Retailer prices and availability change constantly and are outside our control. A product we recommend may be out of stock, discontinued, or priced differently by the time you click. That is one reason we do not quote prices — the retailer’s own listing is always more current than anything we could print.

If you find a recommendation for something no longer sold, please tell us at contact@cleatandcone.com and we will fix it.

Who publishes this site

Cleat & Cone is published by Magoo Media Group. More on the about page.