Understanding the url for affiliates. (automatic affilliate links in creatives)

Tips and Tricks HQ Forum » WP Affiliate Platform

Understanding the url for affiliates. (automatic affilliate links in creatives)

(6 posts) (5 voices)

Started 1 year ago by joeriki
Latest reply from akalli
Possible Solutions (Related Topics):

Tags:

joeriki
Member

how do i use wp-affiliate to give affiliates direct links to different pages on my site. I do events and each event has a different page and i want prospecst to arrive on that page for that event that affiliate is promoting. Any suggestions? Thanks
   I tried just adding the code to whatever page i wanted
http://idetoxholidays.com/current-event/swim-with-dolphins/?ap_id=JoeTest
instead of
http://idetoxholidays.com?ap_id=JoeTest
Will that work?

Also what is the shortcode for the ?ap)id=AFFILIATE   so i can put the unique links in the creatives area already rather than what i currently do which is put in "put your id here"   can i make it automatic so users can just log in copy and paste from creatives and i can put the affiliate link in at the admin side.

Put simply, what is teh short code for ?ap_id=JoeTest   I searched all over the site and i cant find it anywhere ie

http://www.domain.com/short code]

Thanks

Posted 1 year ago #
wpCommerce
Moderator

Simply use XXXX in place of the affiliate ID and the plugin will dynamically insert the affiliate ID there.

Posted 1 year ago #
amin007
Key Master
This is what the help text of the plugin says:
```
Use XXXX and the plugin will dynamically insert the affiliate ID there.
```
What it means is that if you use the following in your creative then when an affiliate logs into his/her account and views the code it will automatically put his/her affiliate ID in place of the "XXXX" so he/she can just do a copy and paste:
```
http://idetoxholidays.com?ap_id=XXXX
```
You can link to any of your WordPress page. All you need to do is add the "?ap_id=XXXX" at the end of the URL.
Posted 1 year ago #
akalli
Member

Hi,

I've recently installed the plugin and during testing the Referral URL was the the website url the click came from. Once I was done testing and was ready to go public with the affiliate program I decided to make sure I had the latest version of the plugin installed. I upgraded and everything seemed OK. Now I notice the any of the referral URLs are always the affiliate link instead of the website url the click came from. I'm not 100% it is because of the new version, but the timing seemed right. Anyway, can you tell me if that what is supposed to be in the referral url now, and not the website url? Or perhaps there's something I need to go and change now that the software has been upgraded. Does that makes sense?

Andrea

Posted 5 months ago #
admin
Key Master

The browser doesn't always give the actual referral site's URL (for example if you open the link in a new window or directly enter the affiliate URL). In cases like that (when there is no information available regarding the referral site) the plugin simply uses the landing pages URL. This doesn't have any bearing in the actual click being tracked or not (your clicks are still tracked).

Posted 5 months ago #
akalli
Member

Thank you for reassuring me that all is good. Nice to know everything will still work as expected.

Andrea

Posted 5 months ago #

RSS feed for this topic

Reply

You must log in to post.