Newbie - need help!!!

[rmfeio]

Hi,

I'm a newbie with Affiliates so bear with me please; I'm developing a web site where I want to promote some merchants that have affiliate programs and therefore to make my life easier (?) I've enrolled with an Affiliate Network.

My site will have registered users and I want to be able to identify per user which transactions they've made.

As I understand the Affiliate Network will give me a link to the merchant with a certain code in the URL that identifies my site. How can I identify the user of my website involved in the transaction? Can I add an extra field to the URL? Is there another (most likely) way of doing this?

I appreciate all the help you can provide.

Cheers,

[affiliatemarketingltd]

you can if the network allows it

for example i think affiliate future ( i may be wrong have a url variable so their link would be domain.com/?m=6767&aff=98983&url=YOURDOMAINHERE

check as each networks is different

[philhancox]

I think you're referring to the click reference, not deeplink ie the affiliate link will be

networktracking.com YOUR AFFILIATE ID &clickref= YOUR USER ID

so the user id will be passed through and attached to the transaction therefore identifying the user who made the transaction i.e. for cashback sites?

I think you can work closely with networks for more technologically advanced solutions.

[rmfeio]

Yes, what I need is a way of identifying myself to the Affiliate Network but also have a way of identifying which user clicked on the link.

I think you're referring to the click reference, not deeplink ie the affiliate link will be

networktracking.com YOUR AFFILIATE ID &clickref= YOUR USER ID

so the user id will be passed through and attached to the transaction therefore identifying the user who made the transaction i.e. for cashback sites?

I think you can work closely with networks for more technologically advanced solutions.

[philhancox]

Well it's going to differ for each network, obviously. Just create the link and then look for the option to make a "click reference". Then you will have to replace the click reference with your user ID, which I assume would be some form of dynamic tag.

e.g. for Webgains you would make something like this

http://track.webgains.com/click.html?wgcampaignid=YOUR-AFFILIATE-ID&wgprogramid=THE-MERCHANT-ID&clickref=USER-ID&wgtarget=DEEPLINK-HERE-IF-NECESSARY