http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/476/Earn-Affiliate-Commissions/ User submitted comments to Practical Ecommerce's article entitled Earn Affiliate Commissions en-us Copyright 2007 Confluence Publishing Wed, 09 May 2007 12:41:09 -0600 http://www.practicalecommerce.com/rss/ Practical Ecommerce v2.0.1 Ecommerce kmurdock@practicalecommerce.com bgetting@practicalecommerce.com 60 http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/476/Earn-Affiliate-Commissions/#comment1842 Hey Juli, Great question. This strategy works after the customer has ordered from your site. If your affiliate sent the customer, the affiliate makes a commission from you. However, on your thank-you page you can have other links to similar products that you don't provide. Your affiliate shouldn't expect to make money on products your company doesn't carry but recommends to the customer after the initial sale. If you look around you will see sites like Amazon and many others use a strategy similiar to this. As long as you give your affiliate credit for sales on your site, it shouldn't be an issue. It all depends on how you run your affiliate program. Wed, 09 May 2007 12:41:09 -0600 http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/476/Earn-Affiliate-Commissions/#comment1842 http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/476/Earn-Affiliate-Commissions/#comment1824 One possible problem with doing this is that if an ecommerce site is a vendor within one of those affiliate companies, other affiliates may not wish to link to them. I am a vendor with Shareasale.com, and if you have links that go to other sites (i.e., a "leaky" site), good affiliates will not promote you. Why should they, if someone they bring to you ends up going elsewhere and giving you a commission, but not them? Tue, 08 May 2007 09:34:20 -0600 http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/476/Earn-Affiliate-Commissions/#comment1824