AffiliateWP External Referral Links 1.2

Are you utilizing AffiliateWP however have one other WordPress-based web site you desire to associates to advertise? In that case, then this free add-on is for you.

Let’s say you’ve 2 web sites, SiteA.com and SiteB.com:

SiteA.com

That is the place AffiliateWP and your chosen eCommerce/membership system is already put in.

SiteB.com

That is the place you’ll set up the Exterior Referral Hyperlinks add-on on a totally separate web site with its personal set up of WordPress. It has been set as much as promote your merchandise and/or companies on SiteA.com and purely acts as a advertising web site.

You inform your associates to advertise SiteB.com and so they go forward and share their referral hyperlink, which can sometimes appear like one of many following:

• http://siteb.com/?ref=123
• http://siteb.com/?ref=john

Observe: Exterior Referral Hyperlinks solely works with non-pretty affiliate hyperlinks. Additionally, a go to entry is not going to be created for the exterior web site hyperlink, solely when the outbound hyperlink is clicked to return to the principle web site the place AffiliateWP is put in.

A buyer clicks on the affiliate’s referral hyperlink and arrives on siteB.com. They’re completely thrilled with what they see and click on considered one of your varied “name to motion” buttons or hyperlinks. After arriving on SiteA.com the shopper makes a purchase order, you obtain a sale, and everyone seems to be comfortable… or are they?

The affiliate who initially referred the shopper didn’t obtain a fee on the sale – why is that?

That is just because AffiliateWP is put in on Website A, not Website B. When the shopper clicked on the hyperlink the affiliate shared, nothing occurred. There was no code on web site B that interpreted the affiliate’s ID or username within the URL.

You may assume that putting in AffiliateWP and your eCommerce or membership system on Website B would clear up this drawback. Since they’re separate websites, they’ve separate databases, which suggests separate knowledge. By no means are the 2 web site’s knowledge shared.

So how can associates promote web site B however earn a fee on web site A when the shopper purchases? The reply is pretty easy. By gathering the affiliate’s ID or username from the URL (together with the referral variable) and passing it to any hyperlinks inside the web site that hyperlink to web site A.

That is precisely what Exterior Referral Hyperlinks does. It’s going to take the affiliate’s ID or username from the URL and retailer it as a cookie within the buyer’s browser. Any hyperlink on web site B that hyperlinks to web site A will then have the affiliate ID or username intact.

Since a cookie is used, the shopper can freely transfer between pages on web site B and it’ll nonetheless hyperlink accurately. You too can set the cookie’s expiry; if the shopper leaves the location and comes again later, it can bear in mind which affiliate referred them.