How is Sunspots Affiliate Marketing Networks Administered?
Sunspot’s Affiliate Marketing Networks are pretty simple in concept, but a lot of behind-the-scenes work is necessary to make it work properly. In order for our Affiliate Partners to be compensated, Sunspot needs to keep track of the actual activity surrounding the Affiliate Partner’s link to our Merchant Partner’s website. Depending on your arrangement with Sunspot, we might need to determine: the number of people who click on our Merchant Partner’s website link on your website the number of people who buy something or performing some other predetermined action once your website redirects them to our Merchant Partner’s website. the number of people who see our Merchant Partner’s website banner advertisement on your website How does Sunspot’s Affiliate Marketing Network know when a visitor clicks from an Affiliate Partner to the Merchant Partner’s website? In most cases, the answer is that the visitor doesn’t actually go directly to the Merchant Partner’s website, but instead to a page
