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Originally Posted by sortie
I don't quite understand this.
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If you put an affiliate id into anything with traffic, it will start to get sales, I was being a smart ass.
The 2nd paragraph is like nats. The linking code, the second it gets clicked, it tracks everything even before the tour is loaded, sets the cookie, and redirects the surfer. Once the surfer reaches the join page, between cookie/ip tracking-matching and the session, the surfer is re-tracked.
As long as the site owner doesn't resend the visitor through a linking code, your ID will never be reset with the backend system. The hard-coded tour is just for looks, it does get used as a backup if the backend system can't track the visitor.
In this guys case, he is screwing Webmasters out of returns. Which is prob why he sees more sales. But it isn't some major jump. But less Webmaster sales means less traffic from your Webmasters. So he is just screwing himself in the long run.
Really screwing the Webmaster would be like many affiliate programs that reset the linking code on the Warning Pages. Once the linking code is reset, the backend system forgets about the previous referrer.