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Originally Posted by Cleo
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Actually, although we all like to see our affiliate code being carried on every link, the old-style link shown above does set a CCBill cookie before the visitor ever gets to the free site.
If you click that link and then follow all the way to the join page on the paysite and look at the source code you'll see your "2253654" affiliate ID in a hidden field of the join form. In fact, even if someone visits the free site and then types 30plusaandhot.com into a new browser tab or window, the CCBill cookie will still be there in the join form code.
I like programs to use links which do both things. Set the CCBill cookie immediately AND carry my code on every link. The reason for wanting them on every link on all pages is so I can point traffic to any page I want, and also so I get credit if someone bookmarks an internal page or if a search engine happens to list a page with my code in the link.
With all that said I do have a different issue regarding the CCBill cookie being set by that link. CCBill allows sponsors to set when their cookie will expire, and sponsors can set cookies not to expire for up to 255 days.
But the cookie set by the link above expires in only 5 days.
If you want more affiliates, Don, I suggest you use the longest possible cookie life your billing companies allow, and always mention that you use cookies that last a long time when you promote your program.
Doing anything else will
not make you more money. All it does is point to short-term thinking and lack of respect for affiliate efforts to drive traffic to your sites. Which is fine if that's in fact your strategy, but if it's not, then you probably don't want to be thought of that way by the more experienced affiliates who check all these things before sending any traffic to a program's sites.
HTH