Easy Affiliate Link Setup?

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I'm trying to set up a way I can sell a product on my site with a small company that does not have an affiliate program. Is there a service out there that can help me easily create a unique affiliate link, and allow the owners to track how many sales come from traffic reffered by my site?

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That's a pretty open question. The most basic would be setting a cookie on their site based on a field=value combo in the the url being passed. If they're running a php based site just make a header file and do an include on all the pages for that header file. Have it parse the url string looking for a field=value if it's there set a cookie. Then on purchase put a check for the cookie pressence.

Even simpler you could make 1 page to drive them to set that cookie, then you wouldn't have edit each page. Would still need to check for the cookie on check out.
 
Ofcourse you are entirely dependant on them for being truthful, making sure everything works correctly, etc....
 
I just set up my own ghetto affiliate program for a site... I'm pretty much in the same situation as you. If you know php/mysql it shouldn't be that hard... especially if can do it
 
damn, too bad I'm not a good coder yet...

what I was looking for was along the lines of what someone was talking about a few weeks back (i forget who) - they explained one of the ways they had made some money was by setting up artists and bands who did not sell anything online with websites, and adding his affiliate ID to their products as part of their agreement. He had a link to a site which provides this service - I just can't find the thread since I'm not sure what the title was, or who posted it.

Thanks guys.
 
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