Can affiliates send traffic directly to a sponsor's CCBill join page?
 

I think I know the answer to this, but I wanted to hear from some others if they have done this and how it worked out. Let's say that you are an affiliate for a sponsor that has nice content, but you don't like their tour at all for whatever reason. Is it possible to essentially design your own tour for the sponsor site on your own domain looking completely differently than their official tour and put the 'join now' links right on your own site that lead directly to their CCBill join page, bypassing their lame tour entirely? Assume the sponsor was willing to let you do this because you know the niche and have been sending them signups. One could put the links to the generic looking CCBill forms for credit card, pay by check, Euro debit and pay by phone and send the traffic directly there, right?

Have I overlooked any technical hurdles? And has anyone tried this with any success?

Yep, it can be done. I offer it. It's usually to the sponsor's page with the ccbill buttons for different payment options rather than the CCBill forms themselves

If you are sending sales and are not misleading surfers in any way, don't see why it would be a problem...

sure you can most of our CCBTools Clients have a join page link option.

sure you can.. just link like this to the join pages.. i assume this is what you mean and not talking about the actual ccbill form page right?

http://refer.ccbill.com/cgi-bin/clic...r.com/join.php

http://refer.ccbill.com/cgi-bin/clic....com/join.html

You could use code on said pages to make a matching page for your tour that just has the buttons but matches your tour.

Just run it by the program, some of these cheap program owners get all uppity and cut off their nose to spite their face so to speak.. . Attacking affiliates that send them sales for what should be a non issue.

The sponsor's page with the CCBill buttons is part of their tour that I am trying to bypass in this case. It is possible to go right from my own super sexy "tour" on my own domain to the generic looking CCBill join forms of the sponsor and to have my affiliate cookie or referring url info intact so I get credit for the sale if that is what I prefer, right? And technically there is nothing the sponsor needs to do first to allow this, right? How would I parse the links to make this work?

I don't recall seeing if ever people sending to the form pages from a tour, usually its those buttons or through NATS.

Yes we do.:winkwink:

As long as the sponsor has the 'multiple redirect' setting enabled in their control panel you can send surfers to any exact URL that you would like by using the &HTML= code at the end of your linking code.

For example:

http://refer.ccbill.com/cgi-bin/clic... ormName=140cc