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Unique Affiliate Tracking Problem?

by OrangeBull
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I've tried searching the forum for a solution, and maybe there is one, but I haven't been able to find it, but here is the problem.

I would like to create a system whereby I can track the email addresses that an affiliate signs up to a list, so that at a future date a commission can be paid to the affiliate who added the name to the list, when and if the customer associated with that email address purchases a service that I will be marketing.

I haven't seen an automated solution for this particular problem, does anyone know of such a solution?

The ultimate sale WON'T OCCUR on a website that I control, but I will be provided a list of the email addresses of everyone who signs up for the service due to my referrals from the company that I will be working with on this project.

My planned solution at this point is NOT TO AUTOMATE THE AFFILIATE PROCESS in the traditional sense, but to create a new landing page for each affiliate and create a new email list for each affiliate in my aweber account to track the email addresses signed up from the affiliate's unique landing page. Is there a Wordpress solution to automate this already available? Doubtful, I'm sure, but finger's crossed!

Regardless, I'm still looking for a good affiliate software to handle the initial signups and track payments, manually, while also handling payouts through paypal or a similar service. Any thoughts on that end?
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  • Profile picture of the author MatthewWoodward
    Just set the subid/tracking ID to be the e-mail address

    You can use hidden fields in aweber to populate any data you want including a secondary e-mail address.

    So people could send traffic to www.domain.com/?refer=their@email.com

    And then push their@email.com into a hidden field in the aweber form
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    • Profile picture of the author OrangeBull
      Thanks, I haven't been much more than a tire kicker with aweber so far, so I haven't really delved into it's features, but definitely appreciate the heads up.

      What I think you're saying though is that with the properly configured affiliate software, I can automate all of this by having the hidden field on the aweber signup form automatically filled in when there is a referral to my squeezepage. Me likes! Me likes a lot!

      Anybody have a recommendation on a good affiliate tracking software that plays nice with WP?
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