Creepy links - what gives?
Jul 20th, 2008 by Brett
A couple of eagle-eyed users have asked.. “oi! What’s these creepy codes in my widget/invite/etc.. links?” - for the rest of you, this refers to the “&ref=????” or.. “&AffID=????” at the end of links that appear in your widgets and invite messages.
It’s no conspiracy, these codes are part of a new tracking system that allows us to see who’s bringing new members in, because we hope to reward you for doing so. We’re keeping the details hush-hush for now, but sometime in the near future, all these referrals will bring huge rewards for users who actively spread the word about Pijoo.
It may be money, it may be other prizes.. but it’ll definitely work towards a free upgrade to sponsor accounts, among other benefits, so in the mean-time - just keep doing whatever you’re doing - referrals are already being tracked for when we launch the scheme.
The idea came about when some users said.. “Hey! We should get credit towards sponsor accounts for our referrals!!” .. so we did what any self-respecting web service should do - we said..”yeah, ok”, and started looking at ways to reward our top referrers.
The reward scheme will be launched in the coming weeks, but we will invite a handful of users into the private beta, where they can cash-out, upgrade for free, or whatever goodies we decide to put in.
You can start earning credit for referrals straight away, by inviting friends, using one of our widgets, or if you prefer to mention Pijoo in a blog post, copy & paste the link from the ‘Invite Friends’ page and use that - as it has your unique code already in it.