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Old 10-14-2006, 09:30 PM  
davidd
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Originally Posted by XPays View Post
One interesting thing in this thread is the cookie talk.

if webmasters really want to see their sales drop- they can use programs that do not hardcode their links. be careful what you wish for- revolving methods around cookies is a smokescreen. keep a year or lifetime cookie- whatever, sales still are not going to track accurately because cookies are good for a lot of things- but not for core affiliate tracking.
You sir are 100% correct.

I did some tests back in the day with IBill and CCBill.

1. I setup a brand new site (zero users in the password file)

2. Generated traffic to the site via controlled methods (text links)

On a 50/50 revshare the webmaster really gets fucked. It worked out to an actual 25%/75% revshare. There were that many sales lost because of cookie tracking.

If you are using a program that uses cookies you are being ass raped...
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