Protect Your Affiliates when using an opt-in form on your salespage
So you have a salespage that you want your affiliates to promote,
but you also want an opt-in form on the salespage so you can
capture the lead if they don't buy right away.
The problem is, if the prospect fills in the opt-in form then clears their
cookies, the affiliate who referred them loses out. There are several
solutions to this dillema, but here is one that I use very effectively.
This will capture the referrer's affiliate ID and invisibly send it to your
Aweber list, so that every time you follow-up with the prospect, the
message sent to the prospect will contain the complete URL of the
affilate who referred them (whether or not the prospect clears their
cookies).
Here's how it works:
Let's say your affiliate link is
http://your-salespage-url.com/members/?id=777
When a prospect goes there, let's say they fill in the opt-in form rather
than purchase right away. Use a custom field in your Aweber opt-in form like this:
(note: the above 'aff' may be different for the cookies your page creates)
This field will get populated with the referrer's ID# that is extracted from
the cookie that was set.
That means when the prospect fills in the opt-in box, the referrer ID# gets
sent to Aweber as a custom field (invisibly). In Aweber, you simply use
that custom field as part of the URL you place in the outbound messages
sent to prospects. In this example, here is the link you would place in the
outbound messages:
The anchor text would be simply http://your-salespage-url.com
That results in the prospect getting the exact referral link in every
message I send to them, automatically, even months or years from now.
Hope that all makes sense to you... it sounds complicated in writing, but is
pretty simple in doing.
The end result is, every time someone uses the opt-in form, every
message they receive will be coded with the URL of the person who
referred them.
but you also want an opt-in form on the salespage so you can
capture the lead if they don't buy right away.
The problem is, if the prospect fills in the opt-in form then clears their
cookies, the affiliate who referred them loses out. There are several
solutions to this dillema, but here is one that I use very effectively.
This will capture the referrer's affiliate ID and invisibly send it to your
Aweber list, so that every time you follow-up with the prospect, the
message sent to the prospect will contain the complete URL of the
affilate who referred them (whether or not the prospect clears their
cookies).
Here's how it works:
Let's say your affiliate link is
http://your-salespage-url.com/members/?id=777
When a prospect goes there, let's say they fill in the opt-in form rather
than purchase right away. Use a custom field in your Aweber opt-in form like this:
Code:
name='custom referrer' value='<?php echo "".$_COOKIE['aff'].""; ?>' size='20'
(note: the above 'aff' may be different for the cookies your page creates)
This field will get populated with the referrer's ID# that is extracted from
the cookie that was set.
That means when the prospect fills in the opt-in box, the referrer ID# gets
sent to Aweber as a custom field (invisibly). In Aweber, you simply use
that custom field as part of the URL you place in the outbound messages
sent to prospects. In this example, here is the link you would place in the
outbound messages:
Code:
http://your-salespage-url.com/members/?id={!custom%20referrer}
which displays as:
http://your-salespage-url.com/members/?id=777 That results in the prospect getting the exact referral link in every
message I send to them, automatically, even months or years from now.
Hope that all makes sense to you... it sounds complicated in writing, but is
pretty simple in doing.
The end result is, every time someone uses the opt-in form, every
message they receive will be coded with the URL of the person who
referred them.
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