The present disclosure is directed to techniques for grabbing affiliate links from sites of other affiliates or merchants sites directly to be used in the creation of an affiliate site along other affiliate links Once grabbed, a tracking id—associated with the affiliate of the site from where the affiliate link was grabbed—is replaced by the tracking id of the new affiliate. In one scenario, the grabbed affiliate link is included in a product database together with other product codes, all of which include graphic data and descriptive text associated with products obtained in a search. The product database is then made available by way of export file or uploaded to a server where it can be later retrieved and used to populate an affiliate site of the new affiliate.