Which part of a Linkshare link is necessary track my Affiliate sales?

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Just joined up with Linkshare to promote wine products for Wine.com.

When I look at the links they create its like this (obviously not posting a real link):

a href="http://click.linksynergy.com/link?id=xxxxxxxxxxxtype=xxxxxxxxxxwww.wine.com%xxx xxxxxafflinksharexxxxxxxxafflinksharexxxxxxx">Cupcake Vineyards 2012 Red Velvet - Red Wine</a><IMG border=0 width=1 height=1 src="http://ad.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/show?id=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

There are two sections that contain what looks like tracking info. So...

1) In order to track my sales, can I use ONLY the part highlighted in blue?

2) In order to track my sales, can I use ONLY the part highlighted in red (link is shorter so I would prefer to use this if possible)?

3) Or must I use some combination of the above to have my sales tracked?

I'm setting up my own layout on the page so just need the necessary part of link to can track sales.
#affiliate #link #linkshare #part #sales #track
  • Profile picture of the author Vendzilla
    The whole thing is tracking, but it's the first part that tracks sales

    If you are looking to reduce the size, I wouldn't worry about it.

    Use just the first part, but you probably won't see enough stats to make any decisions with
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  • Profile picture of the author Trankuility
    So I can link just the section in blue to my own image and linkshare/wine.com will know the sales came from my site?

    Just want to be clear before I spend the next few hours creating this page, hah.
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  • Profile picture of the author Trankuility
    Bump for clarity and great justice.
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