How to Track Affiliate Conversions?

[Karnul]

For e-commerce sites you just put tracking code on your order confirmation page. How do you track conversions when it all takes place on someone else's website? Is that even possible?

If you can't specifically track who converted to a sale, can you track who clicked the links?

Right now I am just guessing which traffic sources are paying off and which don't deserve real effort..

 

[Andrew]

Get this:
http://www.affedit.com/reftrack.php

 

[CoRegisteer.com]

a lot of affilaite networks (ie. someone else's website) allows for subid passing on the url. So, you can pass the keyword on to the subid section of the affilaite url, and when a lead is generated, you can see which keyword was responsible for that lead.