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I've been reading all kinds of interesting stuff about E-junkie's affiliate program, but haven't found the exact answer to my question yet.

I would like to make sure that affiliates get credit for any future purchases from referrals they make to free downloads I have on my sites. Those downloads aren't products for sale on e-junkie, so I can't create a direct hoplink for them.

Looks like I could have one of those pages as the common hoplink, but I'd like to have more.

Is there anyway to generate an affiliate link to a page (other than through the common hoplink) that doesn't have a product for sale through E-Junkie?

Thanks for any help.

Shannon

It sounds like you would want to use our Hop Link method. When a buyer clicks any affiliate's Hop Link for your program, that sets a cookie in the buyer's browser that lasts for 6 months and redirects them to your landing page URL for that Hop Link. Any affiliate-eligible product that buyer purchases from you during the lifespan of that cookie will earn a commission for the referring affiliate.

You can configure a Common Hop Link (in Seller Admin > Affiliate Program Settings) that would give your affiliates one, easy link to obtain for referring buyers to your site. For your Common Hop Link URL "landing page", you can specify any page at all really, not necessarily one where you're using E-junkie buttons. Most merchants simply make this their site's homepage or main "online store entrance" page.

You can also/instead configure Product-Specific Hop Links (Admin > Product-specific Affiliate Program Settings) if you want your affiliates to obtain a Hop Link for a particular product that redirects buyers to your purchase page for that exact product.

Hey Tyson,

Thanks for your response. It looks like I didn't do a very good job of asking my question though!

So I understand about the Common Hop Link that allows affiliates to refer buyers to any page I specify on my site, and Product-Specific Hop Links that allow affiliates to refer buyers to a purchase page for a particular product.

What I'm wondering, is if there is any other way to create a Hop Link? Such as a Hop Link that directs a buyer to a blog post, sets the cookie for any purchases before expiring. In essence, a way to create a Hop Link that could link to any particular page on my website permanently (i.e. not changing the Common Hop Link).

I hope that makes sense!

Thanks,
Shannon

You can set the URL of the hop link to which ever part of your site you want affiliates to send your buyers. This link will not change until you change the location by editing the affiliate settings.

Thanks E-junkieNinja.

I guess I'm still not being very clear with my question, though. Let me see if I can ask it a different way:

With 1shoppingcart, you can turn any url into an affiliate link by using this formula:

[your affiliate link]&u=[link you want to make a custom link]

Does e-junkie have anything like that?

Or, are you limited to specifying page urls in the common link or product specific links.

Thanks!

Sorry, there's no way to do that from our end within our standard affiliate settings.

However, you could hire a developer to program some custom scripting at your end that could accomplish this. Any extra parameters added to an affiliate link URL that our system doesn't recognize will be passed along to your landing page URL, so e.g. if an affiliate makes their Common Hop Link URL look like this:

https://www.e-junkie.com/ecom/gb.php?cl=40815&c=ib&aff=20545& this=that

...the buyer would be redirected to your landing page URL looking like this:

http://www.yoursite.com/landingpage.php?this=that

Notice how the this=that parameter was retained? Then your landing page could have some custom scripting that looks for those and instantly re-redirects the buyer to a certain other page accordingly. E.g. if the script finds this=that it would send the buyer one place, or this=other would take them some other place, etc., and finding no extra parameter could simply leave the buyer at your standard landing page.

We can recommend some competent, E-junkie-experienced developers in our directory here:
http://www.e-junkie.com/ej/developer-directory.htm