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Originally Posted by Jace
in another thread taboo said
"For first crop of affiliates, I'll setup eternal cookies so if surfers ever come back & convert "EVER"... you'll get (some form of) credit for that surfer (even if someone else referred them before/after you). ."
I won't have any part of a program that does that
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I replied to your over there and why we're considering implementing it for mainstream:
keep in mind this is for our mainstream sites and I quote:
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every surfer will be tagged to the person who referred him originally. I'd prefer to only give credit to ORIGINAL referrer (less of a nightmare and to avoid any backlash from affiliates, accusations, etc) but some of our beta testers wondered why we don't give credit to other's who have referred that surfer, if let's say, a long period of time has passed (90 days, etc) between when the surfer first visited us and when and who they sign up under. so we're aggressively looking for the right solution that's win/win/win.
keep in mind, then nature of both sites are based on referrals, viral promotion, etc.
perhaps:
Affiliate #1 refers Surfer #1 who does not sign up.
90 days later: Affiliate #2 refers Surfer#1 who signs up because they are friends, co-workers, etc...
who gets credit? 1, both, if 1 then which one. I'm trying to spread the wealth. If you take into consideration what most sponsors do with their cookies (2 weeks, 30 days, 48 hours, even worse) I thought I was being very generous offering an eternal cookie. Because, in my mind, perhaps Surfer #2 ONLY signed up because he remembered seeing the site the first time around and impressed the site's still active (implies longevity), and then was reinforced by his friends that it's a great site (viral)... so this is one of the solutions we came up with our mainstream focus group of testers. not perfect, but we're evolving.
but if you have any suggestions, and I do value them, let me know.
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