set up sub-domain folders, one for each affiliate. You Must Dissalow indexing from all search engines in this folder. You must not link to this folder from your site proper, some wise guys will try to get you banned by linking to your main site and to your affiliate folder thus trying to create a duplicate content issue but it will not work assuming you implement noindex nofollow and or robot.txt correctly.
You can further increase protection by creating a 301 in htaccess from the affiliate landing page to a secure cart page or other, each affiliate will need their 'own cart page'
The affiliate will want access to stats for their particular cart/page, some merchants send out multiple emails auto when a sale has been made.
One to customer, one to affiliate (usually with email address and geo address removed)
Or you could just join cj's and let them sort it...for a big fat fee
But they will also use a 302....bad for me no difference for you however, but you need me more than you need cj.
If you wanted to you could set cookies (most are blocked...this chrimbo with all the new pc sales even more will be blocked, so I would forget cookies, just maybe mark up on all sales, so if you were thinking 10% make it 30%, no cookie tracking worries, no network fat fees and most importantly no 'unhappy affiliates'
Where do I sign up?
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