I'm looking for a way to implement a referral system for my web site. Initially I went with http://mysite.com/?affid=0001 and used the affid in the query string affid value to record referrals. The problem with this is that from some common Google search phrases the link with the affid appears before the standard link in a Google search...
I'm looking for a free/open source ecommerce product. Specifically what I need is multisite support that allows each site to be branded for the vendor. Basically, I have a brick and mortar business and I'd like to provide a service that allows people to have their own website that accesses my inventory. Sort of like CafePress.com but not...
Hello, I am trying to get an affiliate system in place using PayPal and 2checkout. I am wondering exactly how the process should be. Here is an outline but I am not sure: User enters via third-party-site and a cookie is set of that site (for lifetime) User then pays PayPal/2checkout redirect after payment to my site and then I update...
Think of an small and basic affliate system. I want an url like "www.myshop.com/mynewproduct.html?afid=123". Every time "afid" is found in the url an method has to be called. (Basicly to save "afid" in an session an when the customer buys stuff i want to track it.) Someone here who knows how to do that? Every hint is accepted ;-) gree...
Hi all, I am researching online to figure out what affiliate softwares are available online that are compatible with .NET 2.0 and above and so far I ve found only two and they are: AFFILIATE WIZ aspxsoftware.com Are there any other affiliate softwares available online that are compatible with .NET??? ...
I'm building a site where vendors will link their products to our product pages (for affiliate sales) and was wondering what algorithms people use to automate/facilitate this process? Right now they would have to manually enter the link for each product they own which is quite tedious. I noticed that Pricegrabber finds any product you ...
Hi, someone knows about the possibility to add a request parameter indicating a tracking-id within cj.com affiliate program I receive the following link: http://www.jdoqocy.com/click-3631586-10557180?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsearch.someshop.com I want to put a subid between the parameters, for a future report track. i.e.: http://www.jdoqo...
Do any have easy tools for parsing Shopzilla Publisher feed or API? ...
If my users link to amazon in their messages, I want to get commission on purchases. How do I do this? Do I have to learn Amazon web services or just register my website with Amazon Affiliate program? Thank you very much. ...
So my company has made an affiliate deal with a news portal. It links to our e-shop in a well-seen place on their home page, and in turn, we share the profits of any conversions that come from their link and we also display their advertisements to visitors that came to us through them. That's all fine and dandy. The unfair part is that ...
It seems that most affiliate programs (e.g. Amazon, Linkshare, etc.) provide non W3C compliant XHTML code fragments. When I use the W3C validator I get hundreds of errors and warnings on any pages that use affiliate links. Mostly the issues are non-encoded special characters, but there are other problems too. I'm a bit worried about th...
Hi, I have a redirect.php?id=xyz page. The page redirects to an Amazon page with my affiliate link attached. I'd like to be able to see if and when someone buys using my referral, the id=xyz that I used to redirect them with. Is it possible to see the referring page? Thanks ...
Can someone help me clean this up and make it more logical? I'm fried right now and can't seem to get a good line of code written :) I'm trying to capture affiliate id from urls like ?aid=3056677. The idea is IF aff id is set in GET that takes precedence, the session and finally cookie with least. Also, we don't want to set an aff id th...
I have built a web application using Java EE platform that sells one of my software. Now I want to give the work of marketing my website to various e-marketing companies. But as I will have to give the commission to them, I should know that who sends the traffic. I think that one solution to above problem is: Make a separate URL for e...
Hi, I am working on integrating affiliate sales into few existing sites. We are using a few merchants who work via different networks (cj, shareasale, linkshare, avantlink). Now my observation is that all these networks provide data feeds in different formats. But that's not a big problem. My main concern is actually merchants using di...
I want to create a simple affiliate code. Currently I use PHP session to keep the affiliate ID. http://domain.com/aff.php?id=123 $_SESSION['referral'] = intval($_GET['id']); The problem now. Example user logged to affiliate area then logout, the $_SESSION['referral'] will unset & destroyed by session_unset() session_destroy() on lo...
I'm trying to set up a system that allows members of my web site to fill out surveys or offers through affiliate links, and then reward the member's profile with points for completing the survey (assuming the survey is correctly completed). These points will be used to purchase prizes on my web site. My question is: Once the user succes...
I am thinking of "rolling my own" Affiliate marketing system - using either PHP (or more preferably, Python). I am relatively new to Affiliate marketing, so before I get started though I wanted to make sure that I had covered all bases, and was also not reinventing the wheel (in terms of there being a good open source [Python based] syst...
i am building an affiliate system and i have stacked with the design of the database in one part. I dont know how to keep track on that who recruited whom. Lets say we have something like this: Jon smith Alex Del Jim West Marko Polo Johny Bravo Pit Sampras Sara Mat Gabriella white Antonio Santo Maja Grozdanova Agon Xhela...
I need a recommend for affiliate software in ASP or ASP.NET, any idea? ...