| Can My Affiliates Control the Destination of Their Affiliates’ Links?
Yes you can!
There are a couple of ways you can control the destination of your affiliates’ links from within your account, but now there is also a way to give your affiliates control over which page their default link points to using the “u-parameter.” With this feature, your affiliate has control over which page their DEFAULT link directs traffic to.
The u parameter looks like this:
&u=www.TheNewURL.com
Add this to the end of any default affiliate URL to manually override the destination of the link with the URL that has been entered in the parameter following the equals (=) sign.
If you would like to maintain control of your affiliate link destination URLs you can now setup as many different links and banners as you would like from within your Shopping Cart account on the Affiliates >> Manage Media screen. You can point each individual media that you create to whatever destination you would like.
Note that each piece of Media is limited to one (1) destination and the u-parameter will not work with them. Your affiliates have access to all created media from within their login area. Again, the u-parameter does not work for media, only for the default affiliate link.
The power of the u-parameter is that it gives your affiliates control over where the click leads, so they can pass people through a name squeeze (although they can do this more easily by leading people to a name-squeeze page and having their regular affiliate link here). Or more importantly, if you have setup your affiliate program to have the default links point back to your homepage, your affiliates can use the u-parameter to more successfully push specific products and send their traffic to more customized landing pages. By utilizing the u-parameter your affiliates can direct traffic to a specific page on your site, instead of the just the ‘opening’ home page.
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