[thelist] Affiliate links

[plwolf at telus.net]

Hi Simon,

Regarding the below, I recently asked this same kind of question in a 
marketing forum. General thoughts were that the affiliate would rather host 
the entire code on their own page rather than rely on an iframe that relies 
upon another site for content.

I'm assuming in the below instance you are probably referring to Banner ads 
with affiliate code. I personally would rather copy the banner image to my own 
server and place everything in my own page. 

I recently solved a problem a fellow was having on his site where he wished to 
rotate banners from four affiliate programs he was promoting. Normally, you 
place the banner image code given you from these sites on your site and it 
links to a CGI script already rotating the different banners they have for 
promotion. 

This fellow was trying to have the banners also rotate by dropping into screen 
view from the top of the page, (example:
http://webmastereseller.com/test/rotator/). Each new banner dropped in would 
be a new one. He was trying to preload the banners using the link they gave 
him, but it wasn't working because each time the page called the image src, 
(ex: http://www.affiliate_site.com/cgi-bin/banners.cgi), the CGI script was 
dealing him a different image. The end solution was to download several of the 
banners from the Affiliate Sites and host them locally.

Hope that helps a bit, any questions, feel free to ask.

Perry Wolf.

Quoting Simon Perry <thelist at si-designs.co.uk>:

> Hi All,
> 
> Quick straw poll if you would be so kind.
> 
> Affiliate links code for insertion into an affiliates website
> 
> Code for the complete link to be copied and pasted into 3rd party website?
> 
> Or
> 
> Code for an iframe linking back to the display code hosted on the site
> offering the affiliate service?
> 
> Any other comments or suggestions happily received.
> 
> TIA
> 
> Simon
> 
> 
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