http://www.yourdomain.com/superclix/index.html
SIGNUP PAGE FOR NEW
AFFILIATES
http://www.yourdomain.com/superclix/webmasters/index.html
Where users will login to get bannercode,
check stats, modify info
http://www.yourdomain.com/superclix/admin/index.html
Password protected admin area
ALL CGI will be
http://www.yourdomain.com/cgi-bin/superclix/
The administrative interface is basically a
navigational and editing interface. If you take a little time to push buttons you
will see how it works. You can zoom into the statistics from any point starting at
the yearly overview and zooming into the individual users statistics. From the
payout menu you can revoke sales or delete affiliates.
EXPORTING PAY TABLES
The payout menu allows you to export the
current pay period sales data into a flat file ASCII delimited database which will appear
in your web browser. Save this file as TEXT and you can import it into your favorite
database program.
CHANGING PAYOUT SCHEDULES
The file inside of /cgi-bin/data/schedules.db
is a table of the pay periods broken up into one pay period per line. The default
pay schedule consists of 24 periods (24 lines). There are no restrictions to how you
can restructure this table. Make sure you do NOT have any extra blank lines in this
file however or it will totally throw off your statistics.
SETTING UP THE
CLICKTHROUGH GATEWAY
Superclix uses what is called a "GATEWAY"
for paying out affiliates. The idea is that the affiliate only gets PAID for the
click after reaching a secondary or deeper page of your website. For example, if I
send you a click and the visitor exits - i dont get paid. If they explore the site
and they reach the order page or whatever - this triggers the payout script (getpaid.cgi)
by server sides includes and THEN I get paid. This is a great way to increase the
effectiveness of paying people per click and it discourages cheaters. Detailed
instructions are below:
- Use enter.cgi for your affiliate link code. This is generated in the
member login area (get bannercode) automatically http://www.yourdomain.com/cgi-bin/superclix/enter.cgi?$username
- Inside of the gateway page (say the order page or whatever) place
getpaid.cgi inside an image tag or execute with server sides includes.
- When getpaid.cgi is executed 2 things happen. The cookie is trashed
so the affiliate cannot get paid again from that same web surfer and the stats for that
affiliate are incremented by one unique click.