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For starters, create yourself a report you can run monthly that joins your orders table to the new affiliates table by affiliate ID, so you can see who you owe commissions to. Spend your time GETTING affiliates on board, and worry about automating payments to them after they're making you tons of cash; you'll most likely just have a handful of checks to write each month for a while. Encouraging Links Make it brainless & painless to link to detail pages on your site.


Let the affiliate login, stuff their y (e.g. your pro germany email list duct detail pages), look for that cookie--if you see it, add a little block to the page with a callout and your linking HTML. Linking HTML Tricks Of course, providing the linking HTML gives you the opportunity to encourage favorable anchor text. If you have thumbnails of your products available, give the affiliate two options: an image link, and a text link.





Put the linking HTML in a read-only multi-line text area and add an on-click handler that selects all of the text in the box to make it easy for them to copy the HTML (or, much more difficult for them to screw it up!). What to Watch Out For 1. Craptastic Affiliates - you're going to get a handful of affiliates from bad sites. Not much you can do about this, BUT as long as you're getting plenty of links from good neighborhoods this shouldn't get you into any trouble.