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Originally Posted by DirtyWhiteBoy
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.
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You can easily set an additional cookie and then when the user clicks the join link from the type-in you would send them to the correct affiliate processor.
You would set this cookie to be equal in length to to the length of the 3rd party affiliate cookie.
Thus for people not previously referred by affiliates within X days they would still go to the preferred processor.
You act as if it is asking for more to receive credit in this case but it isn't. It's been the expectation for a decade. Most webmasters think that once their affiliate cookie is set they will get credit for type-ins. Otherwise the cookie is almost worthless. It's largely just ignorance that others don't consider it.
You're also correct that some have overwritten the cookie before doing this. Many years ago I caught one CCbill program which used their own ccbill affiliate link as the main join link (for all type ins) so that the affiliate would never get credit after a typein (it would always see the program owners special affiliate code). I thought it was a pretty crummy thing to do and of course never sent them traffic.
As I said in this case I doubt many sponsors have even considered it.