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Quick question re affiliate links

Assume you have a url for a gallery or tube page: http://www.sitexxxxxx.com/tubepage.php

Questions

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

http://www.sitexxxxxxxx.com/tubepage.php becomes http://www.sitexxxxx.com/tubepage.php?aff=1234

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

Thank you in advance

Only if the ads are on the same server or you can carry the variable on to your network ads and track them somehow.

You can envelope the query string on the URL then do something with it.

If you load the ads using the respective affiliate ID, sure. You can even match tracking to affiliate and show ads accordingly.

yes, what ^^ said.

by pasing variable you can recognize who the affiliate / user it and show ads accordingly.

you can even set cookie, so even if use comes directly to your gallery or landing page, without using the affiltae id , he will still see the ads which was shown previously. and credit appropriate affiliate.

literally speaking anything is posssible.

Will this work?

Url of the content, say, is xxxxxxxxxxx.com/greattubepage.php

The page has affiliate ads from ONE sponsor, say affprogramxxxxx.com and the program's tracking url structure is like AFFID.affprogramxxxxx.com/

Question: If have affiliates and give them each a SUBID like ?tid=SUBID

So the url of the tube page or gallery they wish to promote looks like this: xxxxxxxxxxx.com/greattubepage.php?tid=SUBID how do I pass the ?tid=SUBID so it appends to AFFID.affprogramxxxxx.com/

Is this possible?

What I'm trying to do is have my affiliates promote pages using their SUBIDS and when their traffic BUYS anything off the page, I give my AFFILIATES a % of my own AFFILIATE payout from the ads.

They basically become SUBAFFILIATES and I'm the PRIMARY affiliate

Is this possible?

I'd like to do this with WORDRPESS-based pages

Doable?

If so, is there an EXISTING WP plugin for this OR do I need it done CUSTOM?

get the tid variable in your if statement

Sorry, I'm not a coder so I ask HOW is this done?

Bump. Please help.

So use cookies to automatically appen the aff ID?

Sorry I'm not a coder. I'm trying to figure this out before I pay someone to do it.

I don't think you are going to find any kind of plug in for what you are wanting to do.

So, you are probably going to have to hire someone if you want it done right.

If your sponsors allow a tracking code on the url then you can accomplish a lot of what you are trying to do by appending a tracking code to a url, unfortunately your sponsors will NOT all be using the same scheme for their tracking code and not all sponsors offer the option of a tracking code.

For example: to attach a tracking code to a Chaturbate url you would add a query string of track=xxxxx (where xxxxx iis the tracking code) to the chaturbate url.

If you assign each of your affiliates a unique tracking code and you assign that tracking code to the url going to the sponsor then you should be able to get sponsor reports that show that tracking code and what activity is attributed to it, you could then use that information to pay your affiliates.

I do not know of any plugins that would do what you need to do so you are probably looking at a custom solution.

Your solution needs several pieces:

1. A place for your affiliates to sign up. This piece would be where you would assign a tracking code to the particular affiliate along with collecting the info needed to pay them. It is also where your affiliates would go to look at the various reports that would show them their activity with each of your sponsors or however you plan to structure that presentation.

2. A mechanism on your site to recognize the incoming tracking code that the affiliate sends to you and then assign that tracking code to each outgoing link that is active in that session. That piece would need to know the scheme for each sponsor so that it can properly structure the outgoing links.

3. A mechanism to periodically collect the various sponsor stats and break them down by tracking code/affiliate for presentation to the affiliates and for paying affiliates.

You are probably going to want a database for this to keep track of everything.

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Most affiliate programs do not allow 'sub affiliates' -- you have a limited license to sell the program to end users only.