Linking to Inside Pages w. Aff Link

[KevinMcC]

I am looking to link to inside pages of a couple poker rooms (attached to my affiliate account of course) and was wondering if any affiliates knew how to do this at rooms. I remember a couple threads on this but could only find one with a search.

Interested mainly of PokerStars, Full Tilt, Ultimate Bet.

What would you add to these to attach it to your aff. account?

xhttp://www.fulltiltpoker.com/promotions.php
xhttp://www.pokerstars.com/poker/promotions/
xhttp://www.ultimatebet.com/poker-promotion

Thanks!

[Riyaz]

I know for programs that use income access backends they can create a landing page/redirect that drops a cookie for you.... thats how it works for our program atleast

[KevinMcC]

Nobody knows how? I know its possible at Stars and Full Tilt (or at least it was).

[Mike]

From what I can tell, this is specific to each room. In other words, there is no standard way of linking to inner pages for all rooms that will guarantee your link is tracked.

[KevinMcC]

Yah, I was just wondering if anyone knew how at any of those three rooms..

[GregW]

I'm pretty sure that with Stars you just add your tracking code the end of the url. That's what I've been doing anyway. Like:

hxxp://www.pokerstars.com/?source=thepokerbank.com
hxxp://www.pokerstars.com/vip/stellar/?source=thepokerbank.com

[Spry]

Greg is right about Stars, this works and has been confirmed. FT does it as well, you just have to add your tracker at the end of the link, not sure the exact format w/o looking it up but i believe you just add the tracker at the end....

bodog does it a bit different, where you have to add a /welcome/XXXXXXX/ at the end of the link (not sure you asked for them but they allow it as well)

[KevinMcC]

Thanks for the help guys! Does anyone know the exact format for Full Tilt? I would hate to have it wrong and waste my traffic..

[IA Lou]

Kevin,

Did you ping your affiliate manager at each of the programs?

Would probably be good to do so:

1) Make sure you're doing it right, and that it will track

2) maybe in the end they can save you some time

I know we have worked with brands in the past that have to build pages specially to accept the tracking variables, so that if an affiliate tries to send traffic to a random page not set up to do so, then the link would not track. Plus, you never know, maybe the aff manager can set up something special or direct you to a page you didn't know existed.

Also, ALWAYS test links with a quick registration if you are at all unsure.. takes 3 mins and could save you a huge amount of $$$. If that registration doesn't show up, you know you have a problem.

Cheers

[FirstTimePokerPlayer]

For Full Tilt the correct way would be: hxxp://www.fulltiltpoker.com/chris-ferguson-challenge/?key=(your code) (or: hxxp://www.fulltiltpoker.com/promotions/?key=(your code))

FTP's affiliate team confirmed that this would track correctly (still have to find out though).