Integrating an affiliate program on membership sites can simply be done with tracking codes. Setting up the integration of these tracking codes is simple. First, internet business owners or webmasters must realize there is always a commonality that exists on any membership site structure. That commonality is the registration page.

When discussing the registration page there is a sign up and a confirmation of sign up. The confirmation of successful sign up is a page that the customer sees only when their payment information has been verified and complete. It is this page where the webmaster or internet business owner should insert the affiliate tracking code.

Integrated affiliate tracking codes for membership sites can be generated in the following 2 ways.

1) Tracking codes can be generated automatically by the host affiliate company.

This is the recommended method for any serious internet business owner. This is because affiliate tracking codes are complex and can be tedious to manage in a database.

2) Tracking codes can be generated by a webmaster.

While this is no the preferred method, this option give fully accessibility to any integral part of the internet business owner's chosen system. These can be found using specific affiliate software or scripts that have been specifically generated for this purpose.

When considering a membership site that has multiple levels of registration the process above is the same with a few added steps. Tracking the correct affiliate commission is simply a matter of placing the correct affiliate code associated with its specific level of membership registration page.

For instance is a gold member successfully registers, they should see a confirmation page with a gold member affiliate tracking ID embedded into the page HTML.

Similarly, if a silver member registers successfully registers, they should see a confirmation page with a silver member affiliate tracking ID embedded into the page HTML.

From a design standpoint, both pages might look the same, but the code within these pages has special tracking so that affiliates can get paid according to the membership level the overall customer has chosen.

Placing code before what are called "Body" tags - which reside near the footer of any standard HTML document - are the ideal place to place these affiliate tracking codes.