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Amazon Affiliates

by smartren25
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Hi Warriors I have noticed that some Amazon Affiliates seem to be onlyon a 24 Hour cookie ( Maybe Older Sites) & seems the newer sites are now given 90 day cookies until the transaction. Does anyone know why? Or what if any criteria has changed?
#affiliates #amazon
  • Profile picture of the author AnniePot
    Not essentially correct. Here is Amazon's definition of their tracking cookies - straight from the horse's mouth . . .
    In most cases, you earn advertising fees for visitors that come to an Amazon site and place any qualifying items in a customer's Shopping Cart within 24 hours of their arrival at most Amazon sites.com or 30-days for MyHabit.com. However, this 24-hour window for most Amazon sites and 30-day window for MyHabit.com will end before it expires once the customer submits his order or reenters Amazon.com through a Link that is not your Special Link. Once the window is closed, you will not earn advertising fees on any subsequent purchases. However, if the customer then returns to Amazon.com through one of your Special Links, this opens a new 24-hour window for most Amazon sites or 30-day window for MyHabit.com.

    It is of course possible that a customer may arrive at an Amazon site (including MyHabit.com) via your Special Link, add an item to his Shopping Cart, and then leave Amazon.com or MyHabit.com without placing an order. As long as the item was added to the customer's Shopping Cart during this 24-hour window for Amazon.com or 30-days for MyHabit.com, you will still earn an advertising fee if the order is placed before the Shopping Cart expires (usually after 90 days). The advertising fee will not be credited to your Associates account until the customer has purchased the item, accepted delivery, and remitted full payment to Amazon.com. For complete details, see the Operating Agreement
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    • Profile picture of the author Jeffery Moss
      Originally Posted by AnniePot View Post

      Not essentially correct. Here is Amazon's definition of their tracking cookies - straight from the horse's mouth . . .
      In most cases, you earn advertising fees for visitors that come to an Amazon site and place any qualifying items in a customer's Shopping Cart within 24 hours of their arrival at most Amazon sites.com or 30-days for MyHabit.com. However, this 24-hour window for most Amazon sites and 30-day window for MyHabit.com will end before it expires once the customer submits his order or reenters Amazon.com through a Link that is not your Special Link. Once the window is closed, you will not earn advertising fees on any subsequent purchases. However, if the customer then returns to Amazon.com through one of your Special Links, this opens a new 24-hour window for most Amazon sites or 30-day window for MyHabit.com.

      It is of course possible that a customer may arrive at an Amazon site (including MyHabit.com) via your Special Link, add an item to his Shopping Cart, and then leave Amazon.com or MyHabit.com without placing an order. As long as the item was added to the customer's Shopping Cart during this 24-hour window for Amazon.com or 30-days for MyHabit.com, you will still earn an advertising fee if the order is placed before the Shopping Cart expires (usually after 90 days). The advertising fee will not be credited to your Associates account until the customer has purchased the item, accepted delivery, and remitted full payment to Amazon.com. For complete details, see the Operating Agreement
      This is really good news as many people will put an unrelated product into their cart and either abandon the cart or not complete the sale. Assuming that person comes back later to purchase another item and then includes that original product (which has been sitting in the shopping cart), a sale/commission will be made.
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  • Profile picture of the author Stevie C
    As the others have said you can link direct to Amazon 24 hour cookie or have a shopping cart set up on your site that gives you a 90 day cookie. Both work well though you have to build up more trust with your site if you use the shopping cart set up in my opinion.
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