Has anyone had some one click on their referral link and it go to a page it shouldn't?
Define page it shouldn't. The one on your profile goes back to your profile.
It did go back to my profile,,how does that let the person start a new acct?
People have trouble with that all the time. It is apparently somewhat unclear in the learning center. I helped PegCole17 when she wasn't getting it right. She found it so helpful that she wrote a hub about it and has gotten about a million comments. I should have written it myself! Her hub is
Creating Referral Links For Your Hubs
Howard you are right, PegCole17's hub is outstanding. I can see why you are wishing you had written it when I see all of the comments. It is a very helpful hub, thanks for sharing it here.
It says " If they decide to sign up it tracks back to you.
oh ok!
So it doesn't matter if the tracing link I send goes to my profiel page....if they sign up it will go back to me...
right?
great!
thankyou:)
by Clayton 12 years ago
How do I create the sign up referral tracker on my profile?I've been reading around in vain, Hubs & the forums, I've pretty much learned how to add the referrals on hubs and backlinking. Though I cant figure out how to get the referral working for my profile page to get a new user to sign...
by Pandoras Box 14 years ago
Trying to see if I understand this correctly. The trackers only work from outside of HP, correct? So if I have a new affiliate tracker on my profile page or in a hub, it's worthless to me, right? And if I link from one of my hubs to someone else's via a traffic tracker, again, it does me no good,...
by Andrew0208 14 years ago
Referral Trackers: 101 signups and 41 hubs.So interesting and encouraging to see some of the HubPages newbies on my referral trackers from different countries get established to write good hubs. I'm happy!
by Victoria Lynn 13 years ago
Hard to believe I still can't figure out how to do that!
by Syed Awn Muhammad 13 years ago
How to use my referral tracker on my main profile page to get some benefits?
by Brie Hoffman 10 years ago
How do you go about signing someone up so that you get credit for them as a referral tracker?I have been here for 6 years and am still fuzzy about the mechanics of this.Thanks
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