redirect page within a website to redirect affiliates to the index.htm

[davidd2004]

We are creating a e-commerce site and enlisting many affiliates, however the affiliates do not have their own website, we create a redirect page for each affiliate to send their web traffic too that links to our index.htm page, therefore we can track which affiliate sent us the traffic in oreder to reward the proper affiliate, however, we also reward the affiliates when their traffic clicks on a banner or product link that we are hosting from another site. The question is, How can we track a transaction at another site to reward the affiliate that sent us that customer originally. if anyone has the answer it is appreciated. Thank you

[Receptional]

Can't you simply make the banners link to the same affiliates redirect page that the affiliate links to? Or change the nature of the redirect pageso that it redirects to different locations depending on what you want it to do?

Also, if the purchases are on 2 different sites you could link the purchase "thankyou" pages using an iframe if you need to collect cookie data on sale.

[cgrantski]

Or, you could have the affiliates always specify a fake parameter, a marker, in any link that points to anywhere on your site, be it index.htm or product.asp. I'm taking about affiliate "A" always added "aff=a" to the end of any link to your site ("?aff=a" if the link doesn't have any params to begin with). The fake parameter will show up in the logs and as long as your reporting product has the ability to process page parameter strings, you can track the traffic. With this method, you do not need any kind of special landing page that redirects.