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Originally Posted by Chop Smith
Yeah, Simon and Swedguy 'licks the cat' different.
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That's true, Chop, the very talented Swedguy helped us with our dream of sticking the webmaster's ID in the middle of the link, which is proving good for search engine listings (good for the affiliates whose codes are in the urls I mean).
Then we got some help from the also very talented Kaktus (thank you Chop!), so now we also create our own cookie on the surfer's arrival at the hfs warning page (or any page actually). That way we can stick the code back into links if the surfer decides to snip the url to look around on his own (a lot seem to do that), and we can also track which affiliate sent a surfer who signed up for our newsletter while they were on the tour. We don't pay for emails collected but we're going to make sure that newsletters sent to those subscribers have all urls coded with the affiliate IDs too.
My basic theory is to try to find every way we can to make our affiliates more money, trusting that our concentration on that will pay off more than anything else we can do to try to motivate someone to promote our site.
One other thing I can pass along, Ponyman, if you're interested, is that you may want to make a special "affiliates-only" version of your tour pages, with no traffic leaks to anywhere the webmaster won't make money. You're more likely to get more people sending you their traffic if it can't bleed off anywhere.
Okay, more than you asked, but definitely contact Swedguy and Kaktus if you want some expert help with the things I mentioned.
And good luck with your expansion plans!
Simon