Affiliate links to specific pages

I want to give my affiliates direct links to the product page. The problem is, the product page is dynamically generated and has a URL like this:
http://www.website.com/?page

How do I pass the affiliate information so they get credit? The biggest problem is the product page script will kick a user back to the home page if it finds any weird stuff in the URL.

[mark]

Hello,

I'm not sure what you need. Do you want to give your affiliates a general link, where they'll add the products by themselves?

If not, then you can use old style of links (link style in Settings), and then there will be no problem. You'll define destination URL, the affiliate will use URL generated by the affiliate system which will be redirected to destination URL after click. No additional parameters will be added to the destination URL in this case.


If you want your affiliates to define the links by themselves,
you can add parameter a_aid=affiliate_id into the url, for example:
http://www.website.com/?page&a_aid=11

but if your product page does not accept additional parameters, I have one simple solution:

It is possible to make one more "product" page to be used only by affiliate system, for example product2.php, which will work in the following way:
1. check if there is a_aid parameter given to the page. If yes, register the click
2. redirect to your standard product page with all given parameters except a_aid

Then your general link will look like:
http://www.website.com/product2.php?page&a_aid=11

and it will work as standard product page if no affiliate parameter is given. I think this should solve your problem.

I hope you understand what I mean.


Also, be aware that if you use this kind of linking, you have to turn on Force choosing commission by product ID in Settings, and specify list of product IDs for every product category.

with regards,

mark

Yes it's clear now thanks!