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It's great affiliates can keep track of sales on their end, but I know affiliates also like to
see how many leads they have sent over.

I guess I could export and send them a monthly report from google analytics.

Any other ideas on how to track clicks by affiliate on my end (using ejunkie) or a way affiliates can track how many leads they send me?

Thanks!

I guess the obvious answer is that they could check their own web stats. Failing that I guess it would be down to e-junkie if they wanted to make such information available.

We don't have a built-in way of tracking affiliate link click-throughs, but you might be able to set up something at your end. If an affiliate appends any extra parameters to the end of their hop link URL, our system would just pass those through as-is and append them to the end of your landing page URL, so you could perhaps have some scripting to look for those. E.g., if an affiliate's standard hop link URL is like this:

https://www.e-junkie.com/ecom/gb.php?cl=XXX&c=ib&aff=YYY

...they could add extra parameters like this:

https://www.e-junkie.com/ecom/gb.php?cl=XXX&c=ib&aff=YYY&ref=YYY& pg=ZZZ

...so buyers clicking that link would arrive at your landing page URL like this:

http://www.example.com/path/to/landingpage.php?ref=YYY&pg=ZZZ

Then you could have some custom scripting in your page that parses its own URL on every visit for the presence of those extra parameters and tracks their respective values accordingly.

Therefore, if affiliates contact you about click tracking, you could ask them to add &ref=YYY&pg=ZZZ to their link URLs, where YYY should match their Affiliate ID (which would thus be unique to them but the same for all their links), and ZZZ can be any arbitrary ID they want to identify which page their link was on (which can be different for every link, so they can track click rates coming from specific links they've posted).

Anymore ideas? This all seems really confusing... :(

All my affiliates are complaining

You would need to be (or hire) a developer to write the custom programming that could track click-throughs in the manner I described above.

While we don't have a built-in way of tracking mere click-throughs on your affiliate links, our affiliate system does automatically track when a click through an affiliate link results in an actual sale, and it calculates any commissions earned. This help page explains how to set up an affiliate program with our system and how it works:
http://www.e-junkie.com/ej/help.affiliates.htm