Thread: Suspended Merchants

<blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>Before, the suspension of a merchant would sometimes mean changes to over 200 pages but now with a single edit to the redirect page the links all point to a new destination![/quote]

The only thing with this is that it's a bit harder to get your link identifiers in so you can trace where each sale/lead etc came from. Though I'm sure it is possible if I put my brain in gear (and let someone tell me how to do it)

<blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>Perhaps in each affiliates setup page we could have a 'error page' option where invalid/suspended links redirect to a page of our choice.[/quote]

That is a great idea, hopefully the networks can take a look at implementing something like this.

Cheers
Wardy

Try implementing the QUERY_STRING variable in XSSI.

You could set the query string as a variable, for example 'source' then, you'd just add $source as your network ID which would automatically be replaced with the query string. i.e. then link to http://www.yoursite.co.uk/redirectto.../?clickfromA4U

Hope that makes sense......

Hi Darren

Sounds great but could you explain it a little more for the less technical amongst us.

That'd be brill.

Many thanks

Ang.

Sure......

Providing your hosting supports SSI's....this should work perfectly:

Simply add this bit <span style="text-decoration:underline">above</span> your redirect command:

Code:

 
<!--#if expr="$QUERY_STRING = ''" ---
<!--#set var="source" value="nosource" ---
<!--#else ---
<!--#set var="source" value="$QUERY_STRING ---
<!--#endif ---

Then.....set your network id to $source

$source will then be replaced either with whatever you add after a ? on your redirect or will be replaced with nosource if there's no query string added.

For example, if you set up a meta-refresh, add the code straight after the opening head tag. Then, use something along the following lines when linking to a merchant via your meta-refresh:

yoursite.co.uk/meta-redirect/?homepage

Hope that makes sense

Very clever! Thanks Darren.

I'll have a little play tomorrow and see what I can do.

The possibilities seem endless.

Cheers

Ang.