Figured out how to get Post Affiliate to work properly

Discussion in 'Affiliate Programs' started by gregdavidson, Feb 2, 2008.

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    If any of you have ever tried to use Post Affiliate, you probably realized that the system can easily be cheated. Their instructions tell your to include a line of code on your Home Page and Thank You page. Basically, when somebody lands on the Thank You page that is referred through your affiliate link, it counts that as a sale and gives the affiliate credit. However, if the customer reloads the Thank You page, it counts that a second sale. If they reload it 100 times, the system will count that as 100 sales! The easiest way to get around this it to put the Thank You page code in a url redirection file and redirect that to your Thank You page. This way, the customer will only land on that page one time. Here are the links to the url redirection software and the Post Affiliate software.

    http://www.ezau.com/latest/articles/0180.shtml
    http://www.qualityunit.com/postaffiliate/
     
    gregdavidson, Feb 2, 2008 IP