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Originally Posted by klinton
these are solutions only for surfers/members who already sent voluntarily some of their info....not for surfers who browse sites, get their cookies deleted every 24 hours etc...how to track these guys ? :-P
+ lets say that they dont have steady IP....
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1. LSO's (flash cookies)
2. Assign a domain or sub-domain to the affiliate (the surfer will come back there)
3. Browser fingerprinting (but this is complicated)
The pre-join idea is good because people will often enter the form once and put in some info to see the price. If you even snag 5% this way it's still 5% more for the affiliate which they should have. Every little bit counts and together it all adds up.
If most affiliates knew how much $$$$ they lose due to the urls appearing on the promo content alone they would be fucking pissed. I make hundreds and sometimes thousands a month just off of type-ins with no link whatsoever. It's all people typing in a url with that part of my business. Affiliates are mostly pissing that away and it's going in the program owner's pocket. The same for the other shitty tracking. This is one reason why a sponsor will claim they do 1:300 while you do 1:3000. Well they are getting the other half of your sales which you sent and then some.
