Thanks for the fast reply.

TO 1:- It is possible that they are using some software to count the redirected links through there server (may be thats why I can see the counted clicks in my Control panel).

TO 2:- No! Affiliate Network just generate links to the Landing pages for the Merchant site, and that is all. They don’t provide any thing else than the normal Links with my publisher ID.

What do you say (from past expirience and as a developer of GoCodes plugin), If a visitor is redirected to the right page on my merchant through my affiliate network, will I get the credits for the made sale (even if my affiliate network didn’t counted that link). Do you think on my MERCHANT site the refferer (link with my ID) is listed properly in their logs or there could be some problem.

I am little new to all this stuff, that’s why asking for some expirienced persons help.

Thanks, Devin

My only guesses are

1. The affiliate network is using some sort of server-side magic on their end to count the clicks.

2. Is there some extra bit, such as a JavaScript snippet, that the network provides that you used without GoCodes?

I am using gocodes plugin on one of my other site. Every thing in gocodes seems to work fine, But the problem occurs on my clicks tracking system.

e.g. I am promoting merchant site merchant.com through an affiliate network affnetwork.com. My affiliate network affnetwork.com gives me a generated link for promoting the merchant merchant.com like —-> merchant.affnetwork.com/my ID here.

This link is clearly showing that the clicks of the visitors are going through my AFFILIATE network server affnetwork.com, so that they can be tracked. If the links are not masked with gocodes, I can see all number of clicks (every time when a link is clicked the software counts that click) in the control panel of my AFFILIATE network affnetwork.com. And on the merchant site merchant.com itself you can see the visitor is redirected through that network, It will show something like this –> (merchant.com?network=name of network). Also, displayed URL in the visitors browser will be merchant.com?network=affnetwork

Now the problem comes when I mask the links with gocodes. They don’t get counted on my affnetwork.com control panel, why I don’t know.

But the visitors browser still shows that he came through affnetwork, as in the URL bar ( ?network=affnetwork ) still can be seen!!!

Now I don’t know whats going on? Is the gocodes plugin changin the urls? Is this a problem of my affiliate network? Can I see the redirected links any how? I don’t know what I should do. Will be thankful for any help. And thanks for developing such a good plugin for the community.

Devin.

I am trying to use Gocodes with the Mandigo theme. I have version 1.3.3.
However it seems to throw out the CSS in the Mandigo theme which ruins the layout.
Any ideas why?

change this line:
$location = preg_replace('|[^a-z0-9-~+_.?#=&;,/:%]|i', '', $location);
to:
$location = preg_replace('|[^a-z0-9-~+_.?#=&;,/:%*]|i', '', $location);

.htaccess is the first stage of the redirect process (or it was until the 1.3.x version). If you're using 1.2.7 or prior, I would guess that .htaccess is stripping it out because the RewriteRule doesn't account for it. (It assumes that the URL only contains alphanumeric characters, undersores, and hyphes.)

$gocode_db = $wpdb->get_row("SELECT id, target, key1, docount FROM $table_name WHERE key1 = '$gocode_key'", OBJECT);
$gocode_target = $gocode_db->target; // << – Not sure if the * is dropped here