We recent revamped our site wettingherpanties.com and have opened it up to enable linking to anyone of our 1061 videos, 1936 photosets and 347 different model pages.
Up until now we've have been getting affiliates to use the standard CCBill cookie linking method, but have now also added a direct linking method, with no cookie.
My question to those affiliates out there is, which do you prefer?
As we see it, each has it's pro's and con's
The pro's to the affiliate cookie method is that if the customer doesn't bite on a first visit but returns to the site and a sale is made, then the referring affiliate is going to be credited because the cookie has remembered you sent them there in the first place. A major con is that many peoples security software will strip out the CCBill cookie by default and you where never going to get the sale either way, whether for a referred first time sale or a return visit sale at some future date.
The direct link method at least gives you a guarantted credit for those first visit sales, every single time. There is no cookie too be removed and therefore you will always be credited with the sale. This is fine, as long as a sale is made on the first visit. If not, you hard work in making the future customer aware of the product has been in vain.
We planned on have both linking methods availiable to give affiliates a choice, but I'd be interested in people views. We're not the affilliate, you guys are and that's why I ask.
Please excuse some of my probably incorrect terminalogy, but I hope you grasp my point, all a little new to this
Up until now we've have been getting affiliates to use the standard CCBill cookie linking method, but have now also added a direct linking method, with no cookie.
My question to those affiliates out there is, which do you prefer?
As we see it, each has it's pro's and con's
The pro's to the affiliate cookie method is that if the customer doesn't bite on a first visit but returns to the site and a sale is made, then the referring affiliate is going to be credited because the cookie has remembered you sent them there in the first place. A major con is that many peoples security software will strip out the CCBill cookie by default and you where never going to get the sale either way, whether for a referred first time sale or a return visit sale at some future date.
The direct link method at least gives you a guarantted credit for those first visit sales, every single time. There is no cookie too be removed and therefore you will always be credited with the sale. This is fine, as long as a sale is made on the first visit. If not, you hard work in making the future customer aware of the product has been in vain.
We planned on have both linking methods availiable to give affiliates a choice, but I'd be interested in people views. We're not the affilliate, you guys are and that's why I ask.
Please excuse some of my probably incorrect terminalogy, but I hope you grasp my point, all a little new to this
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