Affiliate Program Set Up

[channelmidnight]

Hi everyone,



New to e-junkie so please forgive me if I am asking questions that seem rudimentary but I can't see to find the correct information through the forums or in the HELP sections dealing with the Affiliates. I've worked with affiliate programs before and even decided to use e-junkie because there was an affiliate program attached but I am having the darndest time getting this correct.



I am currently selling one DVD product with plans to sell more.

I don't care if I use the COMMON AFFILIATE program or the PRODUCT SPECIFIC one but I do want to use banner ads that I will host on my site.



I have set up an AFFILIATE page on my website but the code is not working when I tested it out.



A simple step by step tutorial on taking the code provided and editing that to your banner ads would be SO helpful. We understand HTML code, this one is just hurting our heads. Can anyone help?



Thank you!

[E-junkie_Guru]

The common affiliate settings are easiest for both you and affiliates. You'd only need to use product-specific settings if you wanted certain products to have a share percentage that differs from the common percentage, and/or if you want to provide hop links to your affiliates that direct buyers to a product-specific landing page that differs from your common landing page.



This help page for affiliates explains how our system works from their perspective; you may want to provide a link to this page on your site's affiliate info/recruitment page:

http://www.e-junkie.com/ej/help.for-affiliates.htm



If the standard hop link code the affiliate obtains from their Affiliate Admin looks like this:



<a href="https://www.e-junkie.com/ecom/gb.php?cl=110919&c=ib&aff=XXXXXX" target="ejejcsingle">Click here to visit Channel Midnight</a>



...where XXXXXX would be the affiliate's own E-junkie account ID, then replacing the standard text link with a banner image would look like this:



<a href="https://www.e-junkie.com/ecom/gb.php?cl=110919&c=ib&aff=XXXXXX" target="ejejcsingle"><img src="http://www.yoursite.com/path/to/banner.jpg"></a>

[channelmidnight]

Thanks for the response.



1) I set up the COMMON AFFILATE program

2) I deleted everything from the PRODUCT SPECIFIC

3) I used the code above with my own affiliate number (I signed up asn affiliate so that I could test it and put an add on blogger). The banner looks great. When I click through the banner, I get this message:



Merchant, Product, Affilite relation, Affiliate percentage or the Hop link has been removed. Please contact the merchant



What am I missing?

[E-junkie_Guru]

You need to get the actual hop link code from your Affiliate Admin (use the Sellers and Affiliates tabs at the top of our site to switch between Admin modes). The example code I provided above had some dummy characters (XXXXXX) in place of an actual affiliate's account ID, since that would vary from one affiliate to another. The code we provide in each affiliate's Affiliate Admin will automatically include that affiliate's own ID.