Iframe & CSS masking?

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I have been talked with my affiliate manager about using an iframe on my landing page.. but i want it to only show the part of the affiliate page that has 'enter zipcode' and submit.. and want that to be at a select spot on my landing page that i created, that way it will eliminate them having to click and then fill it out and submit.

I read that this can be done with CSS... anyone know how, or have a link so i can find out how?

Thanks!
 


I don't know if you can position what you will see in the iframe, but you could do this:
Make a div with position absolute, at top: 0, left: 0 or something.
Do other absolute positioned divs around it so it covers up everything except the zip submit.
Make another absolute positioned, or maybe normal, div over it. And put your content in it.
 
i understand the jist of what you mean, but not sure exactly how to do it. Is there a guide or anything for this?

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unless you can get juicify's idea to work on ALL browsers(I doubt it) then it's not worth it. I say this b/c the css will be ugly as hell and will prob screw up 90% of the time on different browsers.
 
You might be able to just recreate/copy the form's html on your page. You'd need to make sure your form's action URL was fully qualified (i.e. including http://vendor-domain/cgi-bin/whatever as opposed to /cgi-bin/whatever). So long as the vendor's landing page wasn't dynamically generating any hidden field values in its form I think this should work but overall I think this idea is a little sketchy (with CSS or this method) and I probably wouldn't attempt it.
 
I was also wondering if I was able to do a similar task...

If I created my own landing page but wanted to add a "zip submit" or "enter email" box...is there a way to link any information enter in my own landing page to the merchant landing page submit box?

If I view the source on the merchant LP and copy the "form" code (zip submit or email submit) and build my own LP around it...will any information enter in the box be counted?

basically I'm creating a whole new LP for the merchant
 
It depends how the merchant tracks the affiliate referral. If they're setting a cookie on their landing page and then using that to assign the referral, you're going to screw yourself by making your own landing page and submitting directly to wherever it gets submitted. If the affiliate ID gets embedded in the form (perhaps in a hidden field or in the action URL) then you *might* be ok, but you should really check with the merchant, as they might not like you doing this and might decide to cancel your commissions.
 
greenvy said:
If I created my own landing page but wanted to add a "zip submit" or "enter email" box...is there a way to link any information enter in my own landing page to the merchant landing page submit box?
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You can do this with many of them, but it depends on which offers and where you're running them. Ask your AM. Usually it's as easy as adding "&email=blah@blah.com" or "&zip=".

If it's cool with them, basically you'll need to write a script that posts to your server and then redirects them to the affilaite url with that extra stuff appended. Pretty simple if you know some PHP.

I had another cool idea for zip submits. There's geo-targetting software out there that will take an IP and give back a zip code based on their location, so you could have this code running behind the scenes, and then automatically prepopulate the form without the user entering any info.

I don't know if everyone would be cool with it, but it's almost ridiculous what you can get away on these offers, so I wouldn't worry about it too much.
 
Although this is a very good thought, and a good idea, I doubt it will work.

The way these advertisers setup their "one page zip submit" offers is telling visitors they'll get something for free after completing their offers. So after the initial submit page there will be other forms the user must fill out in detail to eventually get this "free" item they were teased with. By IFraming the page, the visitor won't be able to see these later forms and hence the advertiser will not get any completed offers, and eventually ban you from the campaign. Even though you may have successfully got a bunch of 1st page submits, this isn't beneficial to the advertiser and they won't want you.

Also, it just isn't good practice to exclude certain parts of their LP purposefully.

tob
 
waz67 said:
It depends how the merchant tracks the affiliate referral. If they're setting a cookie on their landing page and then using that to assign the referral, you're going to screw yourself by making your own landing page and submitting directly to wherever it gets submitted. If the affiliate ID gets embedded in the form (perhaps in a hidden field or in the action URL) then you *might* be ok, but you should really check with the merchant, as they might not like you doing this and might decide to cancel your commissions.
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It would work if you also include the original landing page in a hidden iframe on your own landing page, then you get the cookie set.
 
Juicify said:
It would work if you also include the original landing page in a hidden iframe on your own landing page, then you get the cookie set.
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Now there's an interesting idea. Just have to watch out for being accused of cookie-stuffing (even though you're not, it might look as though you are).

The only other "gotcha" is that the merchant's form processing may be set up to make sure that it only accepts data from their own domain (perhaps by checking the referrer) in order to avoid it being filled by bots.
 
Now this is an idea that will be beneficial for you and the advertiser. In my mind this is not cookie stuffing, because you truly believe that the visitor will signup/convert directly from your own marketing efforts. Good suggestion!

tob
 
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