Free Affiliate Management Software? Anybody use any of these, successfully?

[Fun4TheMoney 0]

I'm experimenting with setting up my own affiliate program. Since I'm not sure if it will work for me (my products are just tutorials) I don't want to sink any money into it. I have an idea for how to do this from scratch--free and easy--but I need to be sure it will work, first, and be worth doing. I'd love to hear from any of you who have had experience setting up your own affiliate programs--especially free or cheap--since those are the ones that would be my competition if I can develop my own and make it fly.TIA,Suz

[snlildude87 0]

Dude, you don't need any affiliation software - just make your own. It's really easy, and I'll show you how with a little PHP.

1. First, make a file called af.php (short for affiliates).
2. In af.php, type in the HTML code that will include your affiliate's URLs:

af.php:

<a href="http://site1.com"><img src="site1.gif" alt="site1"></a><a href="http://site2.com"><img src="site2.gif" alt="site2"></a>...

Just keep adding to af.php once you get new affiliates.
3. To actually make this show in your pages, include the following code where ever you want your affiliates' buttons/URLs to show:

<?php include(/home/yourcpanelloginname/www/af.php) ?>

Change yourcpanelloginname to your cPanel login name.
4. Finally, upload af.php to the root of your directory - inside public_html and not any folder deeper than that.

That's it! If you have any questions, feel free to PM me. Good luck!

[Fun4TheMoney 0]

Great! Thank you. I'll copy this, save it, and PM you if I can't figure it out.Suz