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Affiliate's pics- download or link?

Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2009 9:21 am
by coolin
Hi guys I just wondered if anyone there might be able to offer any feedback on the method of displaying pictures for affiliate's items as I have joined an affiliate scheme & they seem to think it is best for buyers on my site to be linked to the affiliate's URL containing database images one picture at a time when each is requested by my site's users, though I am thinking it could be slow when there are potentially thousands of affiliate's items on my site because the users would be having to effectively access 2 sites( mine & the affiliate's). It seems to me bit long winded especially for picture thumbs which I could save on my own server and also wondering how secure it would be displayng images directly from elsewhere onto my website's pages.