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Hi @rik0399,

Thanks for the question – we’re still pulling docs together about this feature as it’s brand spanking new 🙂

Query strings are those little bits of extra information on the end of links that you see sometimes like:

https://www.google.com/search?source=hp&q=funny+cats&oq=funny+cats

Affiliate links also have these usually like http://example.com/?affid=1233 or something like that.

What this does is let you cloak an affiliate link like so:

Cloaked: http://yoursite.com/recommends/example/
Destination: http://example.com/?affid=1233

But then also if you want you can add some extra query string data like so:

http://yoursite.com/recommends/example/?foo=bar

And this will go through to:

http://example.com/?affid=123&foo=bar

Basically whatever you put on the end of your cloaked URL will be passed through to the affiliate link when it’s being redirected.

This is great for programs that allow you to add extra tracking codes.

Hope this makes sense!

Cheers,
Josh (founder)

No problem 🙂

I’ve written up a better explanation here:

https://thirstyaffiliates.com/knowledgebase/how-query-string-passing-works

Correct, the query string passing setting is totally optional and only if you want to use this feature of adding extra query string data (primarily for extra tracking).

Let me know if you have any more questions about it 🙂

Cheers,
Josh

Hey @rik0399,

No problems!

It’s like you’re reading our mind 😀

https://snag.gy/Al76Ne.jpg

This feature is planned for 1.1.0 and is under testing as we speak!

Cheers,
Josh