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Originally Posted by signupdamnit
For anyone confused consider that the effect is basically the same as being an affiliate for a NATS program that overwrites affiliate cookies for all type-in traffic.
Although it isn't the same problem technically, the result seems to be the same. No credit for type ins. So whether the cookie is 3 days, 30 days or 365 days, it matters little for type ins.
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As a site owner, I don't feel affiliates are entitled to type-in traffic. I'm not going to be forced into one biller for my internal traffic and risk putting all my eggs in one basket for such a small, small percentage of people who MAY type it in and still have your cookie, so I can get 50% of a sale. No thanks. No offense, but I'd rather lose the affiliate than risk losing it all by putting every sale in the same basket.
That is where site owners send their own traffic and build tours to try to get better SEO placement. Affiliates get their own tour and their biller. For that 0.001% who type it in later and actually still had
your cookie, yea, you lost them. That's the breaks, you can't have it all. Type-in tours are not for affiliates to begin with.