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Affiliate Links for Non-Product Pages

By Will Bontrager

Our affiliates can link to any page of any of our web sites and have their affiliate cookie set.

I'll tell you how it's done. Maybe you'll find a use for something similar.

For affiliates, it's just link and go.

Implementing the mechanism wasn't so straightforward. It had to take into account:

1. Cookies can be set only by the domain that will read them. Domain flowto.info can not set a cookie for domain bontragercgi.com

2. Cookies need to be set for affiliate programs on two separate domains.

3. Web pages on many domains may be linked to.

The solution we chose is implemented as a redirect page. The redirect page causes cookies to be set and then redirects the browser to the correct destination.

The article describes how it works from the site user point of view, the affiliate point of view, and the function implementation point of view.

Click here for the rest of the article.

June 26, 2007

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