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If a user comes back another time do you still get the sale? (7)

07-15-2015 03:45 AM #1 deehkay (Member)
If a user comes back another time do you still get the sale?

When a user visits the landing page and gets out, but then comes back later on another time, can you still get paid for the sale?

For example, they see the landing page and comes back and searches the offer through Google. Would you still get paid for the sale?

07-15-2015 04:20 AM #2 intergmediagreg (Member)

Depends if you mean your personal landing page or the advertiser's website. If yours, no since no cookie was set via the advertiser. If the advertiser's landing page is what you are taking about, it depends on how they set their tracking cookie. Most have a set period (i.e. 1 day, 30 days, etc.) whereby if the surfer returns you get paid but after that period is over then no you would not.

07-16-2015 03:04 PM #3 affiliaxehannah (Member)

If you are running an e-commerce/retail offer like AliExpress or Lazada the cookie (from the advertiser's LP) typically lasts 1 month.

DealExtreme takes it even further and has a 2 month cookie lifespan.

Ask your AM what the cookie lifespan of your offer is or look for it within the offer's details page.

Hope this helps.

07-16-2015 04:44 PM #4 deehkay (Member)

Definitely helps, thanks guys!

11-27-2015 12:19 AM #5 neta_oren (Member)

Hey,

also with offers like LAZADA you need to be careful. They have a very strict Last Click Policy. Which means all traffic sources, including internal ones (like email and banners) do compete for the last click and can steal your commissions.

This gets especially dangerous in combination with massive retargeting by the retailer.

Cheers

11-27-2015 07:49 AM #6 cbrughmans (Member)

Last cookie counts. So if your ad is the last one the user clicked on before making the purchase - and still within the cookie duration - then you get the sale commissioned to your account.

Important to check is how long the cookie last. Especially with big brand names. If the cookie duration is long, you can just run them on pop traffic, drop the cookie, and wait until the sales come in. For that reason companies like Flipkart put a cookie duration of one day so the cookie-dropping strategy doesnt work with them. There's plenty others it does work with though.

11-27-2015 01:14 PM #7 matuloo (Legendary Moderator)

Quote Originally Posted by cbrughmans View Post
If the cookie duration is long, you can just run them on pop traffic, drop the cookie, and wait until the sales come in.
This tactic works but careful with it, it can be considered "cookie stuffing" and it will get you banned in some cases. I personally know 2 people who got into trouble with this and they did nothing more than opening their aff links in a popunder, some vendors simply dont like this.

Not so long ago it was done on a pretty large scale with adult traffic as there is no problem to buy it in millions - people would open links with their aff codes in popunders, imgsrc them etc ... often multiple links at once - mostly to adult paysites. Needless to say whoever was caught doing this got banned

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