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Old 2006-06-05, 03:22 PM   #1
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That's one of those exits that I really frown upon. It's counter-productive. True, not many surfers will hit an exit for any reason other than mere curiosity, but it's just not good to adverstise those cookie killing cocksuckers. Cookies are my friends.
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Old 2006-06-05, 04:04 PM   #2
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That's one of those exits that I really frown upon. It's counter-productive. True, not many surfers will hit an exit for any reason other than mere curiosity, but it's just not good to adverstise those cookie killing cocksuckers. Cookies are my friends.
Well, I'm certainly willing to go to school here, but my inital response is that I think cookies are a bit overrated. How do you depend on them?

If it's a matter of making sure affiliate codes track through a sponsor site, there are two situations:

1.) The surfer does a one-time erasure of cookies. In this case he'll get a new cookie as soon as he clicks through to a tour again.

2.) The surfer sets his browser or uses software to block all cookies. In this case almost every practical site he goes to will require re-entering data each time, etc. which makes the normal surfing expierience more difficult, for nnonporn as well as porn surfing. So he'll probably unblock cookies in short order.

If cookies are used for tracking your own traffic, frankly, a good stats program does that for me. I don't use cookies on my free sites, etc.

I'm sure there must be a practical application that doesn't include these two examples, so I'd be happy to have it explained to me.

Frankly I'm a lot more concerned about surfers being able to selectively block Javascript, although the same considerations apply as listed above.
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1.) The surfer does a one-time erasure of cookies. In this case he'll get a new cookie as soon as he clicks through to a tour again.
If he/she bookmarks a CCBill tour and returns to sign up AFTER he/she has deleted the cookies, the sponsor gets the sale and the affiliate who led the surfer there gets nothing. You want those cookies.

Example: If this is your CCBill link to my lovely site http://refer.ccbill.com/cgi-bin/clic...ore-wives.html you'll see that once you are passed to the tour and the cookie is planted, the page links are all normal non-CCBill links. The tour doesn't set the cookie - the CCBill referring link does. So, if the surfer gets to the tour and says, "I love this gorgeous site which was obviously built by a god-like designer, but I want to join later" and bookmarks http://youngwhorewives.com/whore-wives.html , and comes back after he/she kills that cookie - I get paid, you don't. And that just sucks. Therefore, cookies are your friend.
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If he/she bookmarks a CCBill tour and returns to sign up AFTER he/she has deleted the cookies, the sponsor gets the sale and the affiliate who led the surfer there gets nothing. You want those cookies.
Wel,, I doubt that happens that often (porn is nothing if not an impulse buy, or so one set of common wisdom has it). But I do indeed see your point .

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Wel,, I doubt that happens that often (porn is nothing if not an impulse buy, or so one set of common wisdom has it). But I do indeed see your point .

Thanks!
Wow...that's a blast from the past. Used to promote them years ago...wasn't even aware they were still around.

As to the cookies issue, while it may be somewhat rare for a surfer to leave and buy later...it does indeed happen. And every sale counts
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