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This person has their own website too. I will be linking to their website from mine. I have discussed with this person the opportunity to earn more by being an affiliate, and getting the affiliate fee in addition to their royalty.
The problem is, I know a lot of people reading about the product will want to know about the person behind it. They'll either click on the link on my site to the other person's site, or to a lesser extent, they'll search for the person on Google, etc. They will then see this person's site and return to my site to make a purchase.
I'm happy to give this person an affiliate arrangement, but the above scenario would mean they'd profit not from actually sending the visitors, but from the visiting pattern of people on my site - who visited their site from mine, and returned straight away.
Other than not allowing them to be an affiliate, I have few choices. I was thinking of perhaps using a fake name for this person and creating a totally new site for them with this new name. There are downsides to that though. Or perhaps some way of linking to their site which is orphaned off from the other part of their site which contains affiliate links back.
Does anyone have any ideas on how this might be able to work?
The problem is, I know a lot of people reading about the product will want to know about the person behind it.
A lot of published authors have websites with affiliate links to their own books on amazon, so that if someone follows the link and buys the book the author gets both a royalty and an affiliate commission (although not from the same company). If a fan of the author visits the author's website to see what's new, follows the affiliate link to amazon and buys the new book, the author gets a commission for sending the customer. But amazon doesn't make a practice of linking to the author's site to make it a two-way street.
A link to their site isn't promised. But it adds a nice touch because I am happy for the person to benefit from visitors for their other activities. It's just I don't want to pay them an affiliate fee for my customers who visited their site after mine.
If there is no solution then I guess it is best not to link to their site, and create either a detailed page on my site, or another mini-site.
My ISP provides a log of all the IP addresses and dates for website access and pages they've used, etc in a txt format.
I pull this into Excel and analyze the data.
Dunno if Google Analytics does the same as don't use it.
