Or a better way, for programs anyway is to put this at the top of the source for the gallery:
PHP Code:
<php
$ccbill = (empty($_GET['ccbill'])) ? 'YOUR-CCBILL-ID-NOT-AFFILIATE' : $_GET['ccbill'];
?>
Then on all links just put <?php echo $ccbill; ?> in place of the areas, and when a user hits the site via page.php?ccbill=2353 then 2353 gets credit, if the ccbill isn't set, it defaults to your sponsor id.
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Originally Posted by Shaze
the coded php way makes the URL's look better/cleaner and like you said the ratios will be more accurate but there is a downside to it. you don't get the cookie set right away as soon as the surfer hits the gallery. so if the surfer looks at the gallery but doesn't click to the paysite but remembers the paysite name/url and later types it in directly on the browser or searches it in google or gets there some other way you don't get credited with the sale.
using the long URL your automatically credited with the surfer as soon as he hits the gallery so if he decides to not actually go to the site, but then goes back to the site later to buy you get credit.
it's better to offer both solutions to your affiliates if you own a program because some affilaites want long url's and others want the php style urls.
just a thought.
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You can get around that, In the FHG you can put a 1x1 pixel image on it, and make the source be the long url, but instead of linking to the actual fhg, you link to a 1x1 pixel gif that shows blank, so that way, the urls are clean and easy to use, and the cookie is set once they hit the page.