Affiliate's Link Appearance

[melissagran]

I registered seperately to test how the affiliate program sign-up would work for people. The affiliate Hop Link that was created is as follows:



<a href="https://www.e-junkie.com/ecom/gb.php?cl=74258&c=ib&aff=75339" target="ejejcsingle">Click here to visit Dragon Publishing website!</a>



The majority of the people who would become an affiliate would be adding a link to various locations such as chat forums, not on their own website using. How can they go about doing this? When the link that was generated by E-junkie is added, it doesn't work. How can I provide affiliates a link for them to add in various locations such as chat forums?



I also want to change the default wording from "Click here to visit Dragon Publishing website!" to something else. How can that be accomplished?



I'm so close to being able to make my new website live but need to figure this out first. Thanks for the help!!



Dave

[E-junkie_Ninja]

The link we give the affiliates are meant to be part of a sites HTML code.



What you can have your affiliates do is to just give the URL that is in the code. So in the chat the potential buyer would get a link. In the case of the code you have above the link would be:

https://www.e-junkie.com/ecom/gb.php?cl=74258&c=ib&aff=75339

Since you are not using the hHTML code it, this would remove the "Click Here to Visit Dragon Publish" section.

[granracing]

If it's done that way, will the affiliate still receive the appropriate credit? I imagine so but want to double confirm.



Somewhat related, if they want to add it to places such as Facebook or MySpace, do you have any suggestions on the best way they should format the link for those types of places?



Thanks again, have a nice 4th of July!

Dave

[E-junkie_Ninja]

Yes, the affiliate will still get credit for the sales.



As for Myspace and Facebook we actually have a a help page for setting up our butto ncodes on them and you would want your affiliates to follow the same steps.



Here is a link to that page:

http://www.e-junkie.com/ej/help.social-networks.htm

[granracing]

Okay, that makes sense. Last part to this: Do you possibly know how people could add the URL but have a different name appear as the link's title? For example, the URL the link would point to would be



https://www.e-junkie.com/ecom/gb.php?cl=74258&c=ib&aff=75339



But in various areas, it would show a title such as "Buy E-junkie's Services Today". I know in places such as chat forums, to get the URL to appear it would be web address here.com

[E-junkie_Ninja]

If the entire code is entered in then the title section can be changed.



For example instead of this:

<a href=" https://www.e-junkie.com/ecom/gb.php?cl=74258&c=ib&aff=75339 " target="ejejcsingle">Click here to visit Dragon Publishing website!</a>

You would have this:

<a href="https://www.e-junkie.com/ecom/gb.php?cl=74258&c=ib&aff=75339" target="ejejcsingle">Custom Text!</a>

[E-junkie_Guru]

Also, in many forums that use BBCode, the link could be done like so:



Custom Text!



BTW, note that of course the aff=75339 value would be unique to each affiliate.

[granracing]

From your help I've listed directions on how to take the code and create it as the codes. I'd love to make joining and utilizing links with the affiliate program as easy as possible. Basically they register with your site, copy the link then just begin pasting it whereever they can think of.



While I tell them how to use the hop link code and modify it so it'll work in most forums. I know it's really not difficult for them to do, but any added steps prevent people from moving forward. In an effort to make the process for people joining might it be possible at some point in the near future for you to include that link code for them to copy/paste when the hop link is provided? Same with a unique MySpace link code?

[E-junkie_Ninja]

We are looking at adding a code for MySpace with the fix. As for just the URL from the hop link, that we are not planning to include anywhere since it can be copied out of the hop link code

[dale]

Yes, an added affiliate code for MySpace and forums would be great.

[E-junkie_Guru]

If the HTML code for your Affiliate link looks like this:



<a href="https://www.e-junkie.com/ecom/gb.php?cl=XXXXX&c=ib&aff=YYYYY" target="ejejcsingle">Click here to view more details</a>



...then the URL portion of that (which you can provide to TinyURL.com or paste into a plain-text email or a forum post) would be just this part:



https://www.e-junkie.com/ecom/gb.php?cl=XXXXX&c=ib&aff=YYYYY



For Myspace, just replace the "https:" with "http:", and replace the "&" characters with ";" like so:



http://www.e-junkie.com/ecom/gb.php?cl=XXXXX;c=ib;aff=YYYYY

[dale]

I know. Thats cool, Tyson. I just wish that this option could be available affiliates when they sign up. With their code already embedded in the html, giving them the choice to copy and paste it directly from e-junkie. It would make it easier for me than explaining this process on my website.