where do you set the ccbill cookie?
 

For webmasters using sponsors with ccbill, where on your site do you call the click code? Once I was calling it every load of the page, but this was REALLY slow, although I did get credited probably for every single signup. My theory is people go to another site, get another cookie, and you don't get credit, but if they come back to you with 72 hrs no problem..any opinions?

Huh?

Sweet. I'm a crack smoker too! I was looking for a place to call home and this thread is it.

*camps out*

Wouldn't be surprised if some people on this board are setting cookies on webmasters in their sigs. For refferal dollars!

wow, the thread title caught my interest, but the interior left me totally flumm0xed..

Keep going we can make this a nominee for mentally inept thread of the week!

Oh man, that cracked me up lol!

Look around at some sites and check out their JavaScript, it is clever . . . not that anyone here is doing it with there sig, however, I have seen some interesting stuff out there . . .

Yep makes you think twice about using sites that rely soley on cookies.

Yep!

It is possible to pass the CCBILL referer code as a form variable, and this is much safer than cookies alone, however, you have to be able to track the afiilates CCBILL code throughout the preview pages . . .

cookies take precedence over hard-coding, so if the user had the cookie for that partner before, he/she gets credit even if hard-coded it in the form, at least that's what I understand...

What I've done is run dual cookies, the first cookie tracks the click code cookie in terms of time and when it expires it resets itself AND calls the click code, but this occurs one every x days.

So does anyone know how to change the sponsors cookie file to read only on the surfers computer? :)



*pass the crack*

I would like a cookie

When a new cookie is set it should overwrite the existing cookie.

IE, someone clicks a banner on your site, cookie gets set, they don't sign up.

Tomorrow they come to my site, click my banner, and sign up.

I get credit for the join because my cookie overwrote yours. If you know of sponsors where this isn't the case please post a list of them so I know to never use them.

Also, the query string should always be the first place to look for whom to credit the signup to. If there is none (ie a type in or a bookmark) then you look for the cookie, NOT the other way around.

Again, if you know of programs that look for the cookie first instead of the query string, or that let the first WM to set the cookie get credit for the join, please LMK so I can be sure to never send them a click.

Interesting, maybe I misunderstood ccbill but apparently for ALL affiliate programs the search order is :

cookie from users computer --> cookie exists --> use that (bypass any query string referer) --> cookie doesn't exit --> is query string referer set? ---> yes ---> referer gets credit ---> none set, then nobody gets credit

If both a cookie exists AND a query string referer is passed, the cookie referer is used. But maybe its not true, you can ask them..

No, really, I don't understand.. can someone explain it?

Contact CCBill they are around 24 hours day and can help you out. 888-906-0666

Mark

in the ccbill cookie jar of course! :)