AffiliateWP Documentation

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Sharing affiliate referral links

AffiliateWP makes it easy for affiliates to generate and share their unique referral URLs/links. Whether affiliates prefer promoting your products through social media, email, or websites, AffiliateWP equips them with the tools to generate and track referral links effectively.

Below are key insights into creating and sharing affiliate referral URLs, including tracking options and best practices for social sharing.

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There are three main ways affiliates can generate referral links:

  1. Affiliates can append their unique affiliate ID or WordPress username to any page URL of your site. For example:
    http://alfsflowersandgifts.com/product-1/?ref=123.
  2. Using the Affiliate Area, affiliates can paste a page URL from your site into the Page URL field and click the Generate URL button to create a referral link.
  3. As a site owner, you can also create referral URLs for your affiliates by appending their affiliate ID or username to any page’s URL and sharing it with them.

Promoting Without a Website

Not all affiliates have websites, but that doesn’t stop them from effectively promoting your products. They can share affiliate referral links:

  • On social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.
  • Via email campaigns.
  • Offline methods, such as printed materials with QR codes linking to their referral URLs.

AffiliateWP supports a variety of referral URL formats, ensuring affiliates can promote your products in ways that suit their strengths.

Sharing on Social Media Platforms

Affiliates can share referral URLs across social media platforms like Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, and Twitter. To ensure the best presentation of your products, it’s important to use Open Graph tags or meta tags. These tags allow social media crawlers to display the correct page titles, images, and descriptions when links are shared.

Each platform has its own requirements for these tags. Below are links to the documentation for popular platforms:

Setting up Open Graph tags properly ensures seamless and professional sharing by affiliates on social media.

AffiliateWP allows affiliates to track their performance using campaign parameters. These parameters help affiliates identify the effectiveness of specific marketing efforts.

Affiliates can create campaigns in the Affiliate Area when generating referral links. The campaign name will automatically be appended to the link, like this:

http://alfsflowersandgifts.com/product-1/?ref=123&campaign=twitterjanuary

Campaign tracking allows affiliates to focus their marketing on the best-performing channels. From the Statistics Tab in the Affiliate Area, affiliates can view:

  • The number of visits through a specific campaign link.
  • Unique referral links used in the campaign.
  • Conversion success rates.
  • Conversion data for a specific campaign.

By using campaigns, affiliates can strategize and prioritize their marketing efforts for optimal results. Read more about affiliate referral URL campaign tracking here.

That’s it! AffiliateWP empowers affiliates to generate and share referral URLs, regardless of whether they use social media, email, or offline promotions. Campaign tracking tools help affiliates optimize their efforts, while social sharing integrations ensure professional and seamless promotion of your products.