What Happens to My Affiliate Program When People Buy Through ChatGPT?
ChatGPT can absorb the partner click before checkout, and some merchants can complete purchases inside chat. Both patterns weaken click-only affiliate attribution. Coupon codes are the bare minimum, and bound-artifact primitives are what survive.
Affiliate Attribution in the Age of AI Agents
AI agents are buying on behalf of humans, and click-only attribution is getting weaker in the channels AI touches most. The durable answer is attaching collaborator identity to the things the customer actually consumed, like posts, landing pages, products, and coupons.
Ask Alex: How Do I Make My Affiliate Program AI-Agent-Readable?
A forward-looking take on what 'AI-readable' might mean for a WordPress affiliate program, why it's still speculative ROI in 2026, and where the real work lives today.
Google's Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) and Your Affiliate Program
Google's UCP lets AI agents complete purchases inside Search and Gemini. Worth watching, not yet a daily operational concern for most programs. Here's what it changes, what doesn't, and which partner types hold up.
How to Build a WooCommerce Affiliate Program That Survives Agentic Commerce
A hands-on walkthrough for configuring a WooCommerce affiliate program around bound-artifact attribution (unique coupons, non-click conversion triggers, and collaborator-bound content, products, and landing pages) so the program keeps paying partners when AI agents complete purchases without a click.