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Originally Posted by inthecrack
If it were our intension to short change any affiliates of potential sales we would not have set our cookie length to 100 days. This was the maximum possible with a CCBill program when we set it up and as far as I know it is still the case. Most other CCBill affiliate programs leave it at the default of 3 days. I think we are maximizing the affiliates chances to capture a sale with this.
The URL on the picture has nothing to do with free traffic or circumventing the affiliate. They're gonna click it if it's on your site. The URL is there for people who have a large assortment of random pictures on their own hard drive to identify where it came from and for any event where the picture ends up on a forum or any other unauthorized posting. I don't think there is anything wrong with this.
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Then why put the url on your images if you are not looking for free traffic? You can "brand" the image with your site name with a nice logo, by also putting
www.inthecrack.com on the image just shows you are trying to get people to type in the url either then or at a later date, which your affiliate would not get credit. There is no other way you can explain this. You want the url there so you can get free traffic, period. The affiliate removing the url pissed you off because you worried about losing free traffic. The amount of free traffic you would have gotten is so small that it makes you getting mad over this and losing affiliates over it really retarded.
Pretty sure I remember seeing people as far back as 2004 saying ccbill cookies could be set to 180 days, have no idea if they are longer now. I am sure someone can confirm this. But pointing out that yours are still set to just 30 days and that you haven't inquired about it since you set it all up many years ago, I think is just further proof you not going out of your way to help your affiliates.
Perhaps you should hire someone to run your affiliate program and advise you on these matters. Apparently photographers don't always make the best affiliate program owners.
Hire 12Clicks, I hear he is looking for a job and can get you lots of cross sales.