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Creating Affiliate Product Link
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Hi! Is it possible to create an affiliate product link to a product that is not on the domain the plug in is installed on? To be clear..
abc.com has been created as an affiliate registration website for a particular product. Affiliate Pro has been installed on this site.
123.com is the storefront for the product.
Is it possible to create direct product affiliate links from abc.com that directs to 123.com?
Thank you for your time!
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10 responses to “Creating Affiliate Product Link”
Thank you again for your nice response. Honestly, this is the first affiliate program that I have worked with. My concern is bill time. My client would like to know if you are responding as a moderator or as a user. I am sure your add on option is useful, but honestly, this is my first time working with an affiliate plug in. To work with an option that is not yet tested would possibly cause extra billing time. Please clarify.
If it’s a WordPress multisite, then what I’ve mentioned can be used. If it’s not, then another option is to set a cookie on the 123 site, this can be derived from affiliates_parse_request in wp-init.php – you mainly only need to recognize the parameter in the request and set the cookie. You will need to hardcode the variable and it won’t result in hits being recorded on the site where the affiliate system is installed, but with the cookie in place, it will work. This is not an ideal but a possible and ‘cheap’ solution. Another option is to create kind of a connector on the site running the affiliate system, that would definitely need to be billed extra.
Couldn’t you just run the affiliate program on site 123.com? It could then be set up that you redirect affiliate links to abc.com to their respective links on 123.com.
Thanks Antonio and Kento for your responses. Both are possibilities! Yes, the shopping cart is on 123.com. I forwarded your suggestions to my client. She is asking..
Would the plug in work if we installed the plug in on a new wordpress site, 123.com/affiliates which will be a subdomain of 123.com?
Great, let me know if that can be done. I’m in the process of adding an option to centralize the affiliate system on one site in a multisite setup, if you set it up that way, what you’re suggesting would work.
Thanks, Kento. May I have clarification? I don’t want to bill more hours to this client until I am positive that the wordpress site, 123.com/affiliates (a sub-domain of 123.com) will work if the plug in is installed on 123.com/affiliates. I am 99% sure you said yes, but the client would like the clarification as she didn’t know if your response was from a moderator or another user of the plug in. Thanks for your understanding and patience!
That sounds very reasonable. Would you like to test it first? The ‘centralize’ option should be available today, I can give you access to it and you can try it out, I’d appreciate the feedback on its usage as well.
Hi,
it’s not possible, product page must be in the same domain.
cheers
Hi Antonio, thank you for your response. Would you happen to know of an affiliate plug in that would allow this? I really appreciate your time. Cheers
Hi,
sorry, I don’t know. One question:
123.com is the storefront, but where is the shoping cart?, in 123.com or abc.com
You could sent the affiliate parameter to 123.com, get it, and resend it to abc.com, by example:
123.com?aff=12 shows the product features, and have a button “Buy” that redirect to:
abc.com?aff=12 the customer buys the product, generating the fee for affiliate 12
If you give us the links, we can take a look.
cheers