How to make sure an affiliate gets their share

[dreamec]

How do I make sure an affiliate gets credit in this scenario:



1. Site has a new blog post (which describes a sale for a current product)

2. Affiliate promotes blog post link via newsletter

3. Blog Reader clicks on the link from the affiliate's newsletter and lands on the blog post

4. From the blog post, Blog Reader then goes to a separate "Buy this item" page and purchases the item



Thanks for your help!

[E-junkie_Guru]

When a buyer clicks any hop link for your affiliate program, they will be redirected to your landing page URL for that link while our system sets a cookie in the buyer's browser that expires in 6 months. Every product the buyer purchases from you during the lifetime of that cookie will earn the referring affiliate a commission according to your specified share percentage.



If you wish, you can set up a product-specific hop link that leads directly to a sales page for that product, and you can define a product-specific share percentage which would override your common share % for all affiliate-referred sales of that product.



Regardless of what type of hop link the buyer followed, the referring affiliate will earn your product-specific share % on any purchased items that have one, and earn your common share % on any other purchased items. At present you must enable an item's product hop link in order to have a product % that overrides the common % on sales of that item; however, we are planning to make these settings independent in the future.



This help page explains our affiliate settings in more detail:

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

[dreamec]

Thanks very much for the helpful info. I am clear now that the the system places the cookie regardless of what hop link a buyer uses.



We would like to be able to do something like what a friend is doing on their site:



Format to link is:

www.mywebsite.com/blog/June?ap_ID=AffiliateA



We need to be able to do a "deep link" like the below for our affiliates:

http://mywebsite.com/blog/todays-new-blog-post/?apid=Affiliate A



Basically, we need the ability to "deep link" and not have to re-set things each time. We use Pretty Link in Wordpress to cloak our affiliates' links for them and it complicates things a little but IF we had a way to deep link we'd just have them use the ejunkie tracking ID.



Thanks again and looking forward to your answers!

[E-junkie_Guru]

As you probably realize, even when you mask affiliate links with a Pretty Link URL on your site, that just redirects to the affiliate's E-junkie hop link URL, which sets the referral cookie and then redirects the buyer to whatever landing page URL you have defined in E-junkie affiliate settings for that hop link. You can define a different landing page URL for your common hop link and for each specific product's hop link, but that's about all the built-in landing-page flexibility we offer.



However, you might find it helpful to know that affiliates can append any arbitrary &name=value parameter(s) to their hop link URLs, which would simply be passed through and appended to the landing page URL for their hop link -- e.g., suppose your common hop link landing page URL is this:



http://www.example.com/somepage/



...and of course an affiliate's common hop link URL for your program would look like this (where XXXXXX is the affiliate's E-junkie account ID):



https://www.e-junkie.com/ecom/gb.php?cl=175981&c=ib&aff=XXXXXX



...so if the affiliate adds a parameter to that URL like so:



https://www.e-junkie.com/ecom/gb.php?cl=175981&c=ib&aff=XXXXXX&this=that



...buyers clicking through that modified hop link would arrive at your landing page URL with the extra parameter appended to it like so:



http://www.example.com/somepage/?this=that



Therefore, a WP plugin or other custom script on your site could recognize that parameter to determine which deep-linked specific post to display.

[dendy.aidatour]

Thank you very much for giving me this information, now i can create a product-specific hop link that leads directly to the sales page for that product.
Thanks a lot