Default affiliate link
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When an affiliate signs up for your program through BixGrow, a default affiliate link is automatically generated. This link is unique to each affiliate and is usually based on the main URL of your store, with a tracking parameter appended to it.
By default, this link points to the homepage of your store. However, you can customize it so that all affiliate links direct to a specific product or collection page. This is especially useful if you want to focus your affiliate efforts on promoting particular products or categories.
You have two options to customize your affiliates’ default affiliate links:
To update the default affiliate link for all affiliates in your program, kindly navigate to the Settings tab > Affiliate Link section and update the Default Affiliate Link field there.
If you want to customize default affiliate link for individual affiliates, you can do so by going to the Affiliates tab, clicking on the name of the affiliate whose link you want to customize, and then customizing the link under the Affiliate Link section.
Then, fill in the new redirect you want for the default link (for example, a product's URL) and click Save.
Now your affiliate has a new affiliate link that redirects to a new URL! You can also shorten it to your own liking or follow the affiliate's name to tell them out. If you want to keep the redirected URL the same and only rename the link, you can leave the Enter a Home/Product/Collection URL box empty and only click Shorten link.
Please keep in mind that Shopify now only allows lower cases in redirects (or shortened links here) so inserting upper cases to the shortened link will make the link redirect to an error 404 page instead of your destination page.
This shortened affiliate link must NOT be partially or completely the same as the default affiliate link. For example, if the default affiliate link is https://bixgrowtest.com/quinn?bg_ref=3PF7VfZtzM, do NOT create the custom affiliate link as https://bixgrowtest.com/quinn or the two links will always redirect to each other in a never-ending loop, therefore causing an error!
