Redirecting Affiliate Links (Slickdeals, Fatwallet,etc)?
Question:
I have text links for merchants, and basically I want to link deep within the merchants site. Right now, which is a slow and cumbersome way, I call a perl file that prints an invisible iframe with the merchants link and a javascript redirect to the deeper page.
Also, it would be helpful to know if this even works! Are the affiliates only based on cookies or is their session variable that needs to be sent through each page.
Thanks!
Answers:
you've got so many options!
the worst way is http://myreddirectorsite.com?to=http://t...
the tiny url way is OK
http:shortcut
and let the perl shortcut program figure it out
a very good way to deal with trusted partners is just to share logs... they see how many hits you send them , and you see what they got!
then there's the double ajax trick, where you just use <a href="http:theaffiliate.com" class ="loggit">
and have bound the onclick for a's with class loggit to do a little ajax call before you let the click go thru!
I've done them all... I like the double ajax trick best!
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