Launch A Frame Based Referral Window

Even if you don’t use a frame based site (discussed later), you’ll use a dual frame browser window to hide the affiliate code. Here’s how it’s done:

For every affiliate link, you’ll create 3 html files:

main.html (defines the frame layout)
header.html (top frame that is 1-pixel tall. Hidden (too small to see) and contains the forwarding code provided by the advertiser).
target.html (visible frame that contains a clickable link with normal affiliate referral code and forwarding code to automatically take visitor to advertiser’s site).

As you add affiliate referrals, you add 3 files, changing the names (i.e. for Click Bank, you would use the following file names: ClickBankMain.htm, ClickBankHeader.htm, ClickBankTarget.htm) and the forwarding information in two of the files (header & target).

The referral code at the top (html file header section) of the header and target files will look something like this:

I mentioned earlier that the header frame is 1-pixel tall. If you split it into multiple horizontal 1-pixel frames, you could load additional affiliate referrals into the frames in the 1-pixel header area (header1.htm, header2.htm, etc.). This way when your visitor clicks through to the affiliate site and clicks on a another site referenced by that affiliate, you will get 1st tier credit for the 2nd affiliate link the visitor clicks on (i.e. more money).

Example code for each of the 3 files is available by clicking here.