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PostPosted: Wed Oct 29, 2008 7:45 am    Post subject: Affiliate Module Question Reply with quote
Hi, I want to use the BO Affiliate Module with a CCBill program.

A typical CCBill affiliate ID is like this:
http://refer.ccbill.com/cgi-bin/clicks.cgi?ca=XXXXXX-0000&pa=XXXXXXX

If my blog is at
http://www.domain.com
and my rss feed is at
http://www.domain.com?feed=rss2

How would I tell affiliates to link to my feed and use it in their blogs?

I really don't want to use hosted blogs as such, just want to use the feed for affiliate use.

Can you guide me on this?
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 29, 2008 7:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
have you read this post:

http://support.cheapestwebsoftware.com/viewtopic.php?p=302#302
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 01, 2008 5:25 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Atanasis wrote:
have you read this post:

http://support.cheapestwebsoftware.com/viewtopic.php?p=302#302


Yes, of course I've read that, but it does not deal with the specific issue of CCBill links, nor how to tell affiliates to link to my rss feed only, not to the blog itself.

Further, since the ccbill codes are a two part code
?ca=XXXXXX-XXXX&pa=XXXXXXX i am not sure where to put your {AFF} anchor nor, whether to put the entire two part code or just the first.

Also, in the config file I am not sure what to use as a default_aff_id in this situation. Would I put the first part of the ccbill code XXXXXX-XXXX&pa={AFF} in that config file? Would I put the entire CCBill affiliate URL up to the "=" sign in that same URL ? (http://refer.ccbill.com/cgi-bin/clicks.cgi?ca=XXXXXX-XXXX&pa={AFF} ) ?

I understand if i have affiliates link to the blog itself the linking would be
http://www.doman.com/?aff=AFFILIATE_ID

But what about linking directly to the RSS feed for this blog..which is what we want to use as the affiliate RSS feed for our site. would i link like this:
http://www.domain.com/?{AFF}&feed=rss2 ?

Since CCBill uses target URL's as an argument on the end of it's affiliate code URL how would I implement linking to the feed in this instance?

Typical CCbill linking code without specifying the target URL (user goes to home page)
http://refer.ccbill.com/cgi-bin/clicks.cgi?ca=XXXXXX-XXXX&pa=XXXXXX

If I want to link to a specific page in the site tour I would add an argumenton the end of this URL so that it is written as:
http://refer.ccbill.com/cgi-bin/clicks.cgi?ca=XXXXXX-XXXX&pa=XXXXXX&HTML=http://www.domain.com/page.html

So would I tell an affiliate to link to my feed with the following:

http://refer.ccbill.com/cgi-bin/clicks.cgi?ca=XXXXXX-XXXX&pa=XXXXXX&HTML=http://www.domain.com/?{AFF}&feed=rss2

These questions are not addressed in your previous "how to" post and I would very much appreciate your help on this.

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PostPosted: Sat Nov 01, 2008 8:54 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
CCbill links contain only one id for the affiliate which is PA, the CA is your admin account with ccbill.

So links in BO look like this:
http://refer.ccbill.com/cgi-bin/clicks.cgi?ca=XXXXXX-XXXX&pa={AFF}
http://refer.ccbill.com/cgi-bin/clicks.cgi?ca=XXXXXX-XXXX&pa={AFF}&HTML=http://www.domain.com/page.html

just whatever are your original links, in the place where the affiliate webmaster id is, you put {AFF}

Your affiliates can link directly to the blog feed like this:
http://www.doman.com/rss-feed.php?aff=AFFILIATE_ID
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 02, 2008 6:03 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
I wrote a lot last time..and perhaps this part got missed.

Also, in the config file I am not sure what to use as a default_aff_id in this situation. Would I put the first part of the ccbill code XXXXXX-XXXX&pa={AFF} in that config file? Would I put the entire CCBill affiliate URL up to the "=" sign in that same URL ? (http://refer.ccbill.com/cgi-bin/clicks.cgi?ca=XXXXXX-XXXX&pa={AFF} ) ?

What do I put in the config file in this instance?
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 02, 2008 11:18 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
in the config file put default affiliate id to be used by BO if for example some regular surfer comes from Google directly to the blog. BO will use the default affiliate id in the config file to track sales under that.

Just put yours for example affiliate id, like: 123456
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