Affiliate Disclosure

Robot Pool Cleaner Picks 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.

When you click a product link on this site and buy something, Amazon pays us a small percentage of the sale. The price you pay is exactly the same as it would be if you had gone to Amazon directly — the commission comes out of Amazon’s margin, not out of your pocket.

Every earning link on this site is marked. Buy buttons carry #ad beside them and a link back to this page, and the links themselves carry rel="sponsored nofollow" in the markup so search engines can see what they are.

Product links route through a redirect on this domain (/go/amazon) which appends our Associates tracking ID and forwards you to the Amazon listing. That is standard affiliate plumbing; it exists so tracking works reliably and so a merchant can be swapped without rewriting every page.

Our Amazon Associates tracking ID is imm-robotpoolcleanerpicks-20. That is the only tracking ID that appears on any link on this site.

The redirect is marked noindex, is not cached, and goes nowhere except to the retailer whose product you clicked — the destination host is validated against the merchant before the redirect fires.

At the time of writing, Amazon is the only retailer we earn from. We have not joined an affiliate program for any pool-cleaner manufacturer or specialist retailer, and we do not build tracked links for programs we have not joined.

That has a visible consequence worth explaining. Manufacturer websites — Aiper, Beatbot, Maytronics, WYBOT, Pentair, Hayward, Zodiac — appear on this site only in the Sources section of pages, as plain citations for published specifications. They are never a buy button, never a “check price” link and never a tile CTA, because we earn nothing there and a buy button that earns nothing is just a worse link for you.

If we join a program in future that is genuinely better for a buyer — a brand-direct store with better stock or price on a specific model — we will use it, and this page will say so.

No brand pays us for a ranking, a review, a mention or a placement. No manufacturer sees a page before it publishes. We have no relationship with any brand on this site beyond buying from the same retailer you do. No products have been gifted to us, because we do not test products — the methodology page is explicit about that.

The commission rate also does not decide the order. Rankings come from a five-metric rubric we publish with its weights, applied to published specifications. You can check our arithmetic, which is the whole point of publishing it.

The honest test of independence is whether a site ever recommends against its own interest. This one does, repeatedly and on purpose:

• A page that exists to tell some readers not to buy a robot at all — spas, plunge pools, covered pools, pools full of acorns.
• A guide to doing the job with a leaf rake, a brush and your existing filtration, which recommends buying nothing.
• Repeated recommendations to buy two cheaper machines instead of one expensive one, which earns us less than a single flagship sale — set out in full here.
• A “who should skip this” section on every single product, including the ones that pay us most.
• Brand pages that say plainly where a manufacturer’s range is overpriced, including one that is unflattering throughout.

Every price on this site is pulled from Amazon’s own API and carries the date it was checked — currently November 6, 2026.

Amazon prices change constantly, so any figure older than 48 hours disappears automatically and the button reverts to “Check price on Amazon”. We never fall back to a remembered number, a cached number or an approximate band. If you see a price here, it is current or it is gone.

Where prose on this site mentions a price band — “around $500”, “about $26 for four” — that is editorial context dated to the page’s last update. The live figure in the buy button is always the authority, and the price on Amazon at the moment you check out is the price you pay.

Product photographs on this site come from Amazon’s product data, which the Associates program licenses for use alongside links to those products on Amazon. Amazon product images therefore only ever appear beside a link to that same item on Amazon.

We do not scrape images from manufacturer websites, and we do not present stock photography as a product.

If anything on this page is unclear, or you think a specific page is not living up to it, say so: contact@robotpoolcleanerpicks.com.

Robot Pool Cleaner Picks is published by Iron Mako Media.

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