Just Curious

[Halfdeck]

Originally Posted by Jim

Just in case I'm not clear...here is how it would work. A webmaster builds a free site and submits it to 3 link lists. The site gets a few hundred hits one day and on that day, someone buys a membership. It would be great to know which linklist sent the person that bought the membership.

Like I said, it probably isn't possible. But wouldn't it be nice if it were?

All a sponsor needs to do is record (and display for us affiliates) surfer IP addy. From there, you can backtrack.

1. Keep track of referer URL, timestamp, IP when a surfer hits a free site page using PHP (that way HTML stays sqeaky clean).
3. Sponsor records the IP when a sale is made.

Add 2 and 2 together and its pretty easy to figure out where a surfer came from.