Using a wrapper for affiliate sites?
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- Ellie
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I have a question that I can't find an appropriate answer to......
I am developing a site that will feature products that I have an affiliate relationship with...(I am the affiliate). I was wondering if say, I have an amazon book listed, and when you click on that book you are taken to the amazon site, I could instead have them taken to the amazon site wrapped in my site? Will I still be getting credit through amazon, if they are visiting the site wrapped in mine?
I particularly want this as much of the site will be promoting affiliate products, and once you send someone "off site", even in a new window, you may have lost them for good. Do you think I could do this by clicking on my amazon book link, snagging the url (with my affiliate code embedded) and then using that as the destination url for the wrapper for that item? I know that I would in that case need a separate wrapper for each product, and that that is labor intensive, but if that would work, it would be very advantageous in the long run...
So please let me know if I am being creative, or just goofy, as it won't work.
Oh, and I am using Vortex if that makes any difference.... - Last Edit: 18 years 2 months ago by Ellie.
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- Matthew
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Technically I don't see any reason why it wouldn't work.
The real question is whether or not it violates the AUP/TOU of the company for whom you are an affiliate. Check their terms, and if unclear, ask around about it.
Finally, if it does not violate the TOU, it could be done without creating a separate wrapper for each item.
In fact there are several ways to do it.
The easiest (but less pro) way to do it would be to create an HTML page with the products (and the affiliate links) already in them. Link to that page using the wrapper module, and then, when a client clicks a product, the transfer will still be wrapped in your main site.
The more pro way (but harder) would be to create a content item which would include the iframe (that's what the wrapper uses) code. All of the affiliate items would link to this content item, and pass the affiliate url as an optional parameter. The content item will have the iframe set to that url (probably with javascript). This is obviously more work, and some security validation would need to be done to protect against malicious insertion, but it would give a lot of flexibility. - www.gofftech.com Web Design
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