What are banners?
Banners include all the additional promo material created by merchants for affiliates in addition to the general affiliate link. While the general affiliate link always redirects visitors who click on it to the Main site URL set up in your account and tracks the traffic only in the default campaign, each banner might have a different destination URL and track traffic in a different campaign.
Banners can have various types and can be used to redirect potential customers to specific pages or offers on your website, or be designed for a specific digital platform on which they are supposed to be promoted.
This kind of promotional material can be created in the Banners > Banners manager section in the merchant panel. By default, there are available the following banner types:
- Link
https://mycompany.com/?a_aid=affiliate007
A simple link that affiliates can paste into emails, social media posts, websites, blog posts, etc. - Text link
My Company website
A clickable text containing a link. - Image banner
An image banner is a graphical advertisement. Image banners provide the affiliate with both the HTML code to embed the banner into a page, or just the image and the link for copy-pasting. - HTML banner
An HTML banner is an advanced banner type created in HTML code, which can include text, images, animations, and interactive elements. Using this kind of banner requires the affiliate to have access to the HTML code of the page/site. - Promo email
Promo email includes ready-to-use email templates that affiliates can simply copy and send to their audience. - Simple PDF
This banner type allows merchants to upload a template PDF file in which Post Affiliate Pro will be used. The system automatically replaces the variables with real affiliate-specific details and generates a personalized PDF file, which affiliates can download and send to their audience.
There are additional banner types that can be activated in Configuration > Features, you can find more details about all available banner types in our knowledge base.