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Affiliate tracking question

by writeaway
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Quick question re affiliate links

Assume you have a url for a content page: site12345555.com/tubepage.php

Questions

Can you put an AFFILIATE ID on that content page so affiliates who refer that page will get paid if a visitor buys ANYTHING from the page (the page has ads)

site12345555.com/tubepage.php becomes site12345555.com/tubepage.php?aff=1234

Can wordpress autorender the ads' urls if the visitor comes through an affiliate link?

Would this still be TRACKED ACCURATELY by the affiliate program?

Thank you in advance
#affiliate #question #tracking
  • Profile picture of the author jonejones
    Have you looked at the available wordpress plugins?

    https://en-ca.wordpress.org/plugins/affiliates-manager/

    You can have loads of affiliates sign up to your site and have them automatically get their affiliate links with the proper 12345555.com/tubepage.php?aff=xxxx

    Or you could setup a campaign with a tracker, I'm using bemob as an example to track your cpa.



    Give a unique tracking URL to the affiliates you will want to promote your offer.

    Aff 4321
    trackinglink/go/ffdsadfsafsad54?aff=4321

    Aff 4322
    trackinglink/go/ffdsadfsafsad54?aff=4322

    and so on.

    Be sure to add your conversion pixel on your thank you page, and note that your affiliates will not be able to see their reports this way. Unless they are passing a unique click id and you are able to provide them a weekly report of their converted click ids.

    Example of this,
    Aff 4322
    trackinglink/go/ffdsadfsafsad54?aff=4322&sub=unique-click-id
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  • Profile picture of the author David Beroff
    [Sorry for the duplicate post; this was written hours ago, and WF is not responding well today.]

    The short answer is yes, although you need to accept that nothing will be 100% foolproof. (e.g., Someone could pass garbage in that aff parameter, and you wouldn't have any way to "fix" it.) In PHP, you would place the following wherever you want the aff parameter expanded:
    Code:
    < ? = $ _ GET [ "aff" ] ? >
    (Something very odd with WF is not allowing this to be posted with the above line presented correctly, so you'll have to remove some spaces to get it to actually work.)

    I don't know offhand how to do this in WP, but I'm sure there's a way to configure arbitrary PHP code, and there's also likely something in WP itself to insert the value of a passed parameter like this.
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    • Profile picture of the author writeaway
      Originally Posted by David Beroff View Post

      [Sorry for the duplicate post; this was written hours ago, and WF is not responding well today.]

      The short answer is yes, although you need to accept that nothing will be 100% foolproof. (e.g., Someone could pass garbage in that aff parameter, and you wouldn't have any way to "fix" it.) In PHP, you would place the following wherever you want the aff parameter expanded:
      Code:
      < ? = $ _ GET [ "aff" ] ? >
      (Something very odd with WF is not allowing this to be posted with the above line presented correctly, so you'll have to remove some spaces to get it to actually work.)

      I don't know offhand how to do this in WP, but I'm sure there's a way to configure arbitrary PHP code, and there's also likely something in WP itself to insert the value of a passed parameter like this.
      Thanks, David. Much appreciated!
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