How do you create a referral splash page

referral splash page

[TE_NewGuy]

Ok, here is what I would like to accomplish.

I have a new traffic exchange that I am about to launch and I have created a few splash pages I use to advertise it. The problem I am facing is I am not sure how to let members use this splash page to gain referrals.

I can have them use banners and text ads which is easy...

<a href="MySiteURL"?ref=1><img src="bannerURL"></a>

But my question is, how can I get a link on my new splash page to bring over the "?ref=1" from the splash page link.

For example:

You open this page...

http://MYURL/splash.html?ref=1

and on this page is a link to the signup page...

http://MYURL/sign-up.php

The problem is I want it to carry the ?ref=1 over to the link on the splash page so that when the click on the link it will take them to...

http://MYURL/sign-up.php?ref=1

Any tips or questions?

[rocknbil]

Welcome aboard TE_NewGuy, two immediate methods that come to mind are set a cookie or make all of your pages dynamic and capture it via the query string. The down side of the second is if they visit a single static page, poof, it's gone. Cookies seem to be the usual method.

For that bit of advice, take another - don't use splash pages. :-) Why are they needed? It's an extra step, just take them right to the signup page. Any content that makes you justify a "splash page" can be put right on the signup page.

Now that I think about it, this invalidates the above solutions, you don't need to carry the value anywhere or even set a cookie.