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Originally Posted by dav3
The AWE cookie thing has it's good points, and of course it's bad points.
The good side to the 14day cookie, is that if you are a newer webmaster, you aren't stuck with the slim pickings of the new members to the cam sites. Let's face it, there are tons of badass webmasters that make shitloads of sales. Their cookies are only 14days, so their customers get put back in to the pool of potential profits. Were as if you were on lifetime revs, you wouldn't be able to scoop up those older cam customers. The secret (if you can call it that) with AWE is to build a site that makes the user come back and reset your cookie, not just generate click-thrus.
The bad side, off course it sucks to lose a whale of a customer. But on the flip, you could get some one else's whale next time.
I see everyone recommending using the PPS option for AWE. Honestly, it's a bad idea. The PPS uses a 30day cookie, plus the customer must have never bought credits from and AWE site before. So if a previous revshare customer signs up with your PPS link, you pretty much just screwed yourself and other webmasters also, since that signup won't count for you and essentially taken out of the pool. |
there is 0 good from this method. None. When you pay for advertising and work hard to make a sale you should be rewarded for it. You fail to understand all someone had to do is set their cookie once the person is already signed up. Its not like the next affiliate has to get them to signup, the first affiliate did the hard work.
You damn right if the first guy did the hardest part, which is introduced them to the site and convinced them to try it, then some random person who sets a cookie 15 day from now shouldn't benefit from it. The first person to sell them should get credit for all future sales.
Also, the only person it really benefits is AWE. After 14 days the person goes back into the "pool". But during that time who makes the money.... AWE.
It's total bullshit disguised to make some people think it offers some type of benefit. When really its a way for AWE to own that person the majority of the time they are a member. How often do you think new affiliates pick these members back up once they are signed up. I am sure it happens but over the course of a year, I bet on average 2 - 3 affiliates cross get credit and the other 9 - 10 months a year AWE makes all the money.
The only people that this system should make happy is the people with a lot of traffic that can't convert. They come along after people signed up and they set their cookie. They don't sell the person, they just leach for 14 days.
This method is total shit and I am surprised anyone promotes that company. But hey, have fun at it if you do.