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StarkReality · 03-19-2008, 05:17 PM

Some programs do it for ages and more and more seem to jump on this train.

But first of all, this is how it works:

1. Surfer comes to my site

2. He looks at galleries with branded content, maybe downloads a few pics or clips.

3. He clicks to the sponsor, cookie with my ID is set for X hours or days. Joe Surfer looks at the tour...and decides to leave for now, wanks off to something on his harddrive.

4. Joe becomes horny again, looks at the clips he downloaded, sees the URL and types it in.

5. Now it becomes interesting. He'll come to a warning page, which is totally fine since he just entered the domain name. The warning page should link to the tour, it does, but with an inhouse code of the sponsor. The surfer clicks, watches at the tour again, joins...and you get ZERO, because the last cookie set right when he entered from the warning page is the inhouse one.

I know the justification: We want the sites to be crawled by google with our own codes, so the searchengine traffic isn't credited to affiliates who push the URLs with their IDs in the SERPs.

For me, it's basically bad business. I don't need a 365 day cookie, but it's not asked too much to leave the cookie with my ID untouched if a surfer was originally referred to the site by me and comes back a few hours or even minutes later and joins.

Discuss...I don't want to point to anyone specific, but if needed I can show proof.

03-19-2008, 05:17 PM
StarkReality Confirmed User Join Date: May 2004 Location: 4 8 15 16 23 42 Posts: 4,444	Programs scamming affiliates out of commission via warning pages Some programs do it for ages and more and more seem to jump on this train. But first of all, this is how it works: 1. Surfer comes to my site 2. He looks at galleries with branded content, maybe downloads a few pics or clips. 3. He clicks to the sponsor, cookie with my ID is set for X hours or days. Joe Surfer looks at the tour...and decides to leave for now, wanks off to something on his harddrive. 4. Joe becomes horny again, looks at the clips he downloaded, sees the URL and types it in. 5. Now it becomes interesting. He'll come to a warning page, which is totally fine since he just entered the domain name. The warning page should link to the tour, it does, but with an inhouse code of the sponsor. The surfer clicks, watches at the tour again, joins...and you get ZERO, because the last cookie set right when he entered from the warning page is the inhouse one. I know the justification: We want the sites to be crawled by google with our own codes, so the searchengine traffic isn't credited to affiliates who push the URLs with their IDs in the SERPs. For me, it's basically bad business. I don't need a 365 day cookie, but it's not asked too much to leave the cookie with my ID untouched if a surfer was originally referred to the site by me and comes back a few hours or even minutes later and joins. Discuss...I don't want to point to anyone specific, but if needed I can show proof.