Hi David,
I was discussing the commission theft thingy at forum.abestweb.com. Now I found that it would be a good thing that the customer is not directed to the product.php but directly to the product page on the merchants site. Let me say: I search for Adidas Sneakers and click on search button, the customer is not directed to a searchresult page on my site but at the merchants site. I know it is something off topic to PT but this could be a way to save the affiliate cookies from beeing overwritten. Or do you have another solution doing this?
Regards
Roland
You are right the point does not matter. Cookie overwriting means that, by a software secretly installed by drive by installation on the customers PC, my cookie which is set on the merchants server is older than a cookie which is set by the installed software. It is said that the time difference between my cookie and the cookies of the thieves is something about 8 sec. As you know commissions are only paid for the newest cookie. So, if a customer clicks from my site to the merchant and buys an item I am not paid because my cookie is older than the other one.
Regards
Roland
Hi Roland,
I'm not sure that the point at which you send a customer from your site to the merchant will have any effect on cookies being overwritten, however i'm not sure I really understand the problem - perhaps you could explain in a little more detail what it is you're worried about happening?
Furthermore, linking directly to the merchant from the results page would bypass price comparison...
Cheers,
David.